Author: HOGENDORP C.W.S. Le Comte de (1788 - 1856) :
Title: Coup d'Oeil sur l'Île de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'Archipel des Indes. ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: .: 18. Bruxelles, de Mat, 1830, xii + lithographed frontispiece + 423 pp + (4)(table, errata) + folding map. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, raised back with two labels with gilt text, headcap sligthly damages, hinges with some wear but still firm. Fine/good copy without the usual foxing or staining at the inside. First edition of this important narrative on the history and economy of Java. A Dutch translation appeared in 1833. The frontispiece depicts the Buitenzorg Palace; the map by F. Callens, colored in outlines, describes the Dutch territories in the Far East. With the small engraved ex-libris tipped-in on the first paste-down of ''Le Baron Guy de Thysebaert''. .

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