Very beautiful and luxuriously illustrated work on Indonesia, published by Frans Buffa en Zonen, at that time the most famous lithographic workshop in Amsterdam. All 50 plates were carefully lithographed by Paulus Lauters (1806-1876), who also had worked for Goubau's lithographic printing office in Brussels. In 1836, when the Royal School for Engraving was founded by Antoine Dewasme at Brussels, Lauters was appointed professor of drawing.
The present work was published in 12 instalments, each with 4 of 5 plates, together with the accompanying text.
The book contains 22 views and plates of Java, including a beautiful plate of Lebak, just before Multatuli was appointed Assistant-Resident there!, one view of the islands east of Java (Ampanan), 2 views of Timor, 10 views and plates of the Moluccas, 7 views of Celebes, 3 of Borneo, 2 of the Bintang-islands, and 3 views of Padang on Sumatra. The work is dedicated to His Royal Highness Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands (pp. 3-4).
Only some slight foxing. Fine copy with ample margins. Bastin & Brommer 360; Landwehr, Coloured Plates 459; Tiele, Bibl. 1136.