COLLET (Octave J. A.)MareMagnum
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Milieu géographique, histoire et économie, démographie et vie sociale, études régionales des différentes communautés, et postface sur l'avenir ("Sumatra et les Pays-Bas"); index; bibliographie. Ouvrage de référence sur l'île de Sumatra, enrichi d'une abondante iconographie, gravures et photos: nombreuses vignettes, cartes et graphiques in texte ("150" annoncés), 88 planches hors texte de photos (bien conformément à la liste figurant dans l'ouvrage, "180 planches" étant curieusement annoncées sur le titre), grande carte couleurs dépliante et belle couverture décorée de motifs indonésiens. Ouvrage publié par le géographe belge Octave J. A. COLLET, ayant obtenu le prix triennal "Maurice Rahir" décerné par la Société royale belge de géographie. Tirage à 1000 exemplaires sur vergé (non justifiés). Bon exemplaire relié, bien complet des planches et de la grande carte. Français
pp. vii, 204. Charts. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Spine and top edge faded. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 6
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates by EME Glenister, and photographs by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. 'A useful guide in a convenient form to the birds of a large region' (Tate p.69). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.202.
In-8, cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 276, con illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo. In buono stato (good copy).
In-8, cartonato editoriale, pp. X,479. Ristampa anastatica dell’edizione del 1811. In buono stato (good copy).
8vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
In-8, tela editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 163. In buono stato (good copy).
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers the unit's service in Sumatra, Java and Timor, with resulting captivity. Includes ROH.
In-8, brossura, pp. 190. In buono stato (good copy).
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
Exhibition catalog from the show of the same name at the publisher's gallery in excellent condition with minor shelf wear to covers, small tear upper back cover. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Illustrated with 73 vintage, historical photos by many different photographers, including Isidore van Kinsbergen, Kassian Cephas, Onnes Kurkdjian, C.B. Nieuwenhuis, H.M. Neeb, etc. that document Indonesia's struggle for independence from 1845-1950. Essays by 13 different writers on subjects as the Aceh war, tobacco in sumatra, early indonesian photography, Java antiquities.
Copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo de "La Domenica del Corriere" del 17/05/1925
Prato, Giacchetti, 1884, in-16, br. editoriale (mancano circa 3 cm di dorso), pp. 482. Con 5 tavole f.t. Manca il secondo volume.
in-8°, 319 pages, -, bibliogr., broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [MI-26]
