Author: SCHÖPPEL, F.A., Title: Loetoeng Kasaroeng. Een Soendaneesche Legende. Vrij bewerkt naar den oorspronkelijken tekst...Translated [and freely edited] from the orig. german by M.L. Schöppel-Bik.
Description: Weltevreden-Batavia, 1925. 4°. orig.clothbacked boards, title in red calligraphy on upper boards, large col. illustration pasted-on centre of upper boards after an original watercolour by J. van der Heyden, surrounded by a light-blue ornamental border. 12 fine col. plates pasted-in, all after watercolours by J. van der Heyden, explanat. foot-notes. The original edn. of this famous work has been published in german; the dutch translation by the wife of author appreared simultaneously also at Weltevreden-Batavia in 1925. Both edns. have been edited after the original west-javanese (Sundanese) mythological story (=Pantun). See also F.S. Eringa's famous thesis on this Pantun:Loetoeng Kasaroeng..1949. Rare. (bds. slightly shaved, ti.-p. foxed, some occas. marginal foxing in first few pp., ow a clean copy).
Keywords: literature/pantun/sundanese/buur
Price: EUR 340.00 = appr. US$ 369.53 Seller: Antiquarian Booksellers Gemilang
- Book number: 38562