Author: BRAU DE SAINT-POL-LIAS, LE BARON X.,
Title: La Côte du Poivre. Voyage à Sumatra. [Édition originale, original edition].
Description: Paris, 1892. Large 8°, modern cloth, new grey endpapers, 239pp., Steel-engraved frontispiece., 15 other steel-engraved plates after photos, engraved by MONTRADER. Famous description of late 19th century Aceh (N. Sumatra), incl. ample observations of the Acehnese, their dwellings, customs & beliefs, incl. notes on the Aceh-war. Rare. (some light inner soiling in places).

Keywords: acehwar/sumatra/19thc.