TEMMINCK (COENRAAD JACOB)


Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 3 lithographed titles, 258 lithographed plates (160 hand-coloured, including 2 additional ornithological plates after Joseph Woolf, many of the topographical views on india paper), 3 maps (2 coloured, one double-page), 12 plates loose, some spotting and toning (mostly to text, but quite extensive on 10 botanical plates), contemporary green half morocco gilt, slightly rubbed [Landwehr 197; Nissen ZBI 4802], folio (445 x 300mm.), Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans, and C.C. Van der Hoek, 1839-1844[-1847]
|FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, OF AN IMPORTANT AND FINELY ILLUSTRATED WORK ON INDONESIA. Based on the findings of a Natural Sciences Commission expedition to Indonesia undertaken in 1826, each volume is devoted to a separate subject: ethnography, zoology and botany.Provenance: De Goederen, Amsterdam, 17 December 1952.