Author: OVERBECK, H. (TRANSL.),
Title: Hikayat Hang Tuah. Die Geschichte von Hang Tuah. Aus dem Malayschen übersetzt.
Description: München, 1922. 2 vols. Small 8°, orig.calf backed decorated boards, richly gilt tooled spines, with green morocco title-labels, (xv), 334; 318pp., richly decorated hftitles & titles. [Meisterwerke Orientalischer Literaturen, Bd. 7/8]. A very important transl. into German of the history of Hang Tuah. The translator has been interned during WW I in Tanglin Barracks (Singapore, 1915) & in Trial Bay Detention Barracks (N.S.W., 1918). Copy of O. Karow, his signature on hftitles & his square red 'tjap' in blank spaces of title-pp. Fine copy. Rare.

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