Author: SÃœCKAU, W. DE (TRANSLATOR),
Title: Voyage dans l'île de Bornéo. 1847-1852. Situation-Population-Aspects des Côtes-Platéaux Intérieurs-Rivières-Divisions administratives-Le fleuve et la ville de Banjermasing. Orig. publ. taken from:Le Tour Du Monde, vol. LIV.
Description: S.L.[Paris], s.n. [Hachette], s.d. [..], 1884. large 8°. Recent coloured stiff wrappers, stitched. pp. 129-166. 7 steel-engraved plates, 8 large steelengravings in text with captions in french language, all drawn by François after Schwaner, 2 sketch-maps of which 1 full-page and one in text, footnotes. A french language descri;ption of the dutch territory of Borneo, Kalimantan, geology of the interior, city of Banjermassin, dayak longhouses and campongs, the population, rivers and transport, administrative division, &c. Translated into french by W. de Sückau, abridged text after the original edition by C.A.L.M. Schwaner's Borneo, publ. Amsterdam 1952-1853. Rare. (copy somewh. dog-eared, some light occasional marginal foxing, ow. well preserved).

Keywords: borneo kalimantan history population dayak housing long house banjermassin geology cults customs ceremonies colonialism indonesia southeast asia nineteenth century 19thc