Author: MAASS, A.,
Title: Sternkunde und Sterndeuterei im Malaiischen Archipel.Offprint fr.:BKI, LXIV-1-4.
Description: Weltevreden, Albrecht, 1924-1926. Later qtr. clothbacked marbled boards. 459pp. Ills. on 8 plates partly out-of-text, many tables in text, full-page and 5 folded, extensive footnotes, glossaries of terms in local dialects. ADDED: Supplement ('Nachtrag). In:BKI, vol. LXVI. ['s-Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1926. later brown paperbacked wraps. pp. 619-670. Ills. on 2 plates, tables in text and full-page. Comparative study, being results of field-research in astronomy, astrology and superstition as found in the Malay Archipelago (:) Sumatra (Aceh, Batak-country, Menangkabau, Nias & Mentawei), Java, Bali and Borneo. WITH the supplementary part (Nachtrag), being revisions to the main volume, incl. fresh materia, published 2 years later. German text-edn. Main volume copy of the late G.L. Tichelman (1892-1952), his bookplate pasted inside front boards, his signature on recte of f.e.p. Complete set of this famous study. Good to very good copy. Rare.

Keywords: astronomy astrology superstition malay archipelago research science sumatra batak menangkabau java borneo colonialism history indonesia southeast asia sterrenkunde sterrenwichelarij