Author: Junghuhn, F.
Title: Terugreis van Java naar Europa, met de zoogenaamde engelsche overlandpost in de maanden September and October 1848.
Description: Zalt-Bommel, Joh. Noman en Zoon, 1851. Large 8vo (26.5 x 16.8 cm). 127, 2 pp., two folded lithographed maps, three chromolithographed plates amongst which the "Hotel d'Orient" and a view of the pyramids in Egypt. Original printed boards. = Franz Junghuhn's account of his travel from Java to Holland, using the route through the Red Sea and Mediterranean. See Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies p. 74. This copy probably from his own library with his signature. Some pencil-marks, probably by Nieuwenhuys as well. The plates are numberd 16, 18-20, as noted by Landwehr. Board edges a bit rubbed, with paper loss in corners, spine taped, otherwise a good copy with nice plates. Bastin & Brommer, 49; Landwehr, 326.

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