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CONRAD JACOB TEMMINCK (1778-1858)
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CONRAD JACOB TEMMINCK (1778-1858)
Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen. Uitgegeven op last den koning door C.J. Temminck. Zoologie. Geredigeerd door J.A. Susanna, Gedrukt door J.G. la Lau. Leiden: In Commissie Bij S. en J. Luchtmans en C.C. Van Der Hoek, 1839-1842 [-1847].
3 vols., 2° (429 x 297mm). Three lithographic title-pages, printed half-titles, 256 lithographic plates, 167 hand-coloured, 3 maps, 2 coloured, 1 double-page. (Some spotting or staining to text, minimally to plates, a few leaves chipped at fore-edge.) Contemporary tan half russia, gilt floral or animal device in 4 compartments, lettered in 2, marbled boards (spines rubbed, one repaired with tape).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ON INDONESIA OF THE 19TH CENTURY and one of only 250 copies printed. Many of the plates are from drawings by Peter van Oort (1803-1834), including 44 views or studies on India paper, made while he was Official Draughtsman to the Natural Sciences Commission expedition to Indonesia in 1826. Others are by A.S. Mulder, A.J. Bik, and one is by the British artist Joseph Wolf. This monumental work was first envisioned by Temminck in a multitude of parts but only 29 were completed by 1847: Botany by P.W. Korthals, Zoology by S. Müller and H. Schlegel, and Land en Volkenkunde by S Müller. As Director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Temminck oversaw the compilation and publication of material collected by this most thorough scientific expedition to Indonesia to date. Bastin & Brommer pp.14-18, notes 238, 264-266; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 197. (3)
Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen. Uitgegeven op last den koning door C.J. Temminck. Zoologie. Geredigeerd door J.A. Susanna, Gedrukt door J.G. la Lau. Leiden: In Commissie Bij S. en J. Luchtmans en C.C. Van Der Hoek, 1839-1842 [-1847].
3 vols., 2° (429 x 297mm). Three lithographic title-pages, printed half-titles, 256 lithographic plates, 167 hand-coloured, 3 maps, 2 coloured, 1 double-page. (Some spotting or staining to text, minimally to plates, a few leaves chipped at fore-edge.) Contemporary tan half russia, gilt floral or animal device in 4 compartments, lettered in 2, marbled boards (spines rubbed, one repaired with tape).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ON INDONESIA OF THE 19TH CENTURY and one of only 250 copies printed. Many of the plates are from drawings by Peter van Oort (1803-1834), including 44 views or studies on India paper, made while he was Official Draughtsman to the Natural Sciences Commission expedition to Indonesia in 1826. Others are by A.S. Mulder, A.J. Bik, and one is by the British artist Joseph Wolf. This monumental work was first envisioned by Temminck in a multitude of parts but only 29 were completed by 1847: Botany by P.W. Korthals, Zoology by S. Müller and H. Schlegel, and Land en Volkenkunde by S Müller. As Director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Temminck oversaw the compilation and publication of material collected by this most thorough scientific expedition to Indonesia to date. Bastin & Brommer pp.14-18, notes 238, 264-266; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 197. (3)
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