Author: MAYER, L. TH.
Title: Een Blik in het Javaansche Volksleven. Orig. edn.
Description: Leiden, [..], 1897. 2 vols. hfcloth. (ix),(vi), 568pp. Tog. 42 fine lithogr. plates o.o.t. of which 20 coloured, 3 double-p, numerous drawings in text, music-scores. [Koentjaraningrat, Anthropology in Indonesia, 1975:..The foremost travel-account] A classic on Javanese folk-life, manners & customs, various ceremonies, &c. Incl. plates depicting so-called State-Pajongs (State-Umbrellas). Rare. (title-pp. gone, hf.titles present)

Keywords: java/folklore/19thc.