Author: JANNEL, CL. & F. LONTCHO,
Title: Sumatra. [Édition originale/original edition].
Description: Paris, Editions Errance, 1980. sm. square 8°. Orig. pict. col. glossy boards. 111pp. Many col. ills. and plates, of which some double-page, after orig. photographs by F. Guerlain, Claude Jannel & Frédéric Lontcho, some text-ills, some plans and many sketch-maps in text, 2 maps, being facsims. after old maps, of which one on endpapers, bibliographies to Nias and Sumatra, list of contents. A description of a voyage through Sumatra, with accounts on the Batak-population, Menangkabau and Nias and their vanishing tribal cultures, history, geography and means of subsistence. With a one-line dedication in Ms. in ink, signed by Claude Jannel, on ti.-p. A very fine copy.

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