Author: RIGG, JONATHAN:
Title: A Dictionary of the Sunda Language of Java. Batavia, Lange & Co., 1862.
Description: . 4to. Pp. xvi, 537, v (errata). Contemporary marbled paper boards, cloth spine, hinges partly split, spine ends and corners worn with small loss. Small marginal tear to title page. Staining at beginning and end of the book, and occasionally in the text. Book label and blind stamp of Benjamin Duprat (1802-64), renowned librarian and bookseller in Paris. First edition of the first substantial work on the Sundanese language. It is spoken in the southern part of the Banten province, and most of West Java and eastwards as far as the Pamali River in Brebes, Central Java. Jonathan Rigg was an English tea-planter at Djasinga in Western Java, and a member of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences. He compiled this notable dictionary with the help of a native named Raden Nata Wiréja according to the preface. Scarce. Zaunmüller 371.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, sunda, sundanese, java, javanese, indonesia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, lingustic,


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