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Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

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296 ROORDA, Taco. Beknopte Javaansche grammatica, benevens een leesboek tot<br />

oefening in de Javaansche taal. 4e verbeterde druk. (Met Voorberigt van A.C. Vreede).<br />

Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, 1893.<br />

Half cloth (dam.). XII,204 pp. € 145,00<br />

Taco Roorda (1801-1874) made a substantial contribution to the scientific knowledge<br />

of the Javanese language. ‘In 1855 Roorda’s crowning achievement, his long expexted<br />

Javanese grammar finally appeared’ (Uhlenbeck, Languages of Java and Madura, p.50).<br />

- Cat. KITLV p.281.<br />

297 ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Afrikanische Wanderungen eines Naturforschers und<br />

Jägers. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe. Übersetzung von M. Kullnick. Berlin, Paul<br />

Parey, 1910.<br />

Original pictorial cloth, with gilt lettering (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With map<br />

and 48 plates after photographs by Kermit Roosevelt or drawings by Ph.R. Goodwin.<br />

XVI,464 pp. € 95,00<br />

First German edition. - Hunting adventures in British East Africa. ‘One of the most<br />

famous of all big-game hunting epics, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost<br />

continnuously in print until the 1930s. Roosevelt’s total bag was enormous even by<br />

the liberal standards of that era’ (Czech p.138-39). - Kainbacher p.348.<br />

298 ROSENBERG, Carl Benjamin Hermann von. Reistochten naar de<br />

Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw-Guinea in de jaren 1869 en 1870. ‘s Gravenhage, Martinus<br />

Nijhoff, 1875.<br />

4to. Original printed boards (spine dam.). With frontispiece portrait of the author, 3<br />

lithographed maps and charts (1 folding), 4 hand-coloured and 13 tinted lithographed<br />

plates by P.W.M. Trap. XXIV,153 pp. € 1.350,00<br />

Original edition published under the auspices of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-,<br />

Land- en Volkenkunde. - On Von Rosenberg’s (1817-1888) arrival in Indonesia he was<br />

appointed assistant to Franz Junghuhn at Padang. He travelled widely through several<br />

parts of the East-Indies between 1840-1870, exploring areas in Sumatra, the<br />

Moluccas, and certain regions of Teluk Cendrawasih (Geelvink Bay) of West Irian. He<br />

concentrates mainly on the natural environment of each region he visited, but also<br />

includes special sections on the people and their customs. This book on New Guinea<br />

is one of his best known publications, containing beautiful plates. - A good copy.<br />

Tiele 939; Cat. NHSM I, p.181; Bastin-Brommer N 616; Landwehr, Col. Pl., 419; Cat.<br />

KITLV p.34.

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