Author: HAECKEL, ERNST H.PH.A. (1834-1919),
Title: Uit Inslulinde. [First Dutch edition, expanded by author and translated after the original German language Aus Insulinde, malayische Reisebriefe, by H.H. Juynboll].
Description: Leiden, Sijthoff, [..], 1902. Recent private cloth, original blank limp wrappers bound-up. (vi), 302pp. 8 captioned monochrome plates featuring ethnic population types from Nias, Mentawei, Batak, Java, many other captioned monochrome plates and illustrations in text, featuring tropical nature, traditional housing, vegetation, fruits, etc. all after author's original drawings, photographs and paintings, footnotes, table of contents. Dutch language [expanded] scholarly record by an eminent german biologist, zoologist, physician, philosoper and naturalist, illustrating and describing results and observations travelling through Singapore, Malaysia and the Dutch East Indies, e.g.: observations about vegatation (fruits), plants, trees, shrubs), population types, volcanoes, orang utan of Java, botanical gardens Buitenzorg and Tjibodas, Preanger recencies, Garut Highlands, Hindu temples Yogyakarta, Sumatra. Good copy. (rebound in recent private cloth, verso of final blank heavily soiled and spotted, ow. a clean untrimmed copy).

Keywords: naturalhistory evolution anthropogenesis darwinism polygenism racialtheory embryology botany biology research culture heritage colonialism singapore malaysia indonesia southeastasia travel journey