Author: LORENTZ, H.A.,
Title: Zwarte Menschen-Witte Bergen. Verhaal van den tocht naar het Sneeuwgebergte Nieuw Guinea. Original edition.
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1913. Original publ. cloth, gilded cover title, gilded title on spine. (xii), 262pp., frontisp., 34 fine plates of which with tissue-guards (captions printed on guards), numerous text-ills. (incl. portrs.), endpiece-illustrations, of which many of anthropological & ethnographical interest, appendices (list of bearer's names), word-list, meteo-observations by W. van Bemmelen (rainfall), very large folded coloured district map with two inset-maps of which one featuring track- and bivouacs of the expedition, with legenda in German! language, AND A LARGE EXTENDING TABLE (51x26cm.) Sleutel van een Decimale Indeeling der Stratigrafie [Key to decimal index of Stratigraphy), both loose in endpocket. GALIS, p.185A. Dutch Language Report of the famous Central New Guinea Expedition (to the Snow Mountain Range, dutch Territory of New Guinea), 1907, 1909/10 under command by author. Map drawn by J.W. van Nouhuys. A still important publication on this hitherto unexplored part of the former dutch territory of New Guinea. Very good copy in original publ. cloth, to which is added the separate KEY to the decimal division of Stratigraphy, which is almost NEVER present! Very rare. (spine a wee bit sunned, tears to folds. of key skilfully restored with acid free clearview tape).

Keywords: newguinea expedition snowmountains mountainrange report history geology climatology anthropology culture heritage legacy stratigraphy rainfall meteorology colonialism indonesia southeast asia oceania