Author: DAUTHENDEY, M[AX] (1867-1918),
Title: Erlebnisse auf Java. Aus Tagebüchern. Orig. edn.
Description: München, Albert Langen, 1924. sm. 8°. orig. lettered cloth, fairly large rectangular illustration at tail of front boards. Hftitle (publ. notice on verso). 256pp. Table of contents, publ. list with other titles by author printed on last 3 unnumbered lvs. Two posthumously published descriptions of literary value, being an eye-witness description of the wedding-ceremony of the Susuhunan of Solo, 23rd. of January 1915 and author's ascent of Smeroe volcano, Java. Very interesting and keen descriptions. Max Dauthendey was caught by the outbreak of the First World War, during his stay on Java in the course of his second world-voyage. Despite the efforts of his [literary] friends Romain Rolland and Bernhard Shaw to repatriate author to Europe, he was forced to stay in dutch colonial Indonesia, Java, where he died of Malaria at Malang in 1918. Very good copy. Rare. (single line rubber-stamped name of previous owner at tail of ti.-p., somewhat faded).

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