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JACOBSEN, (Adrian). - Reise in die Inselwelt des Banda-Meeres. Bearbeitet von Paul Roland. Mit einem Vorwort von Rudolf Virchow.

Title: Reise in die Inselwelt des Banda-Meeres. Bearbeitet von Paul Roland. Mit einem Vorwort von Rudolf Virchow.
Description: Berlin, Mitscher & Röstell, 1896.Later half cloth. With numerous illustrations. (20),271 pp.First edition. - Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 -1947) was a Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer. He is best known as a collector of ethnographic objects, and recruiter of indigenous peoples for the ethnographic shows organized by Carl Hagenbeck, founder of Tierpark Hagenbeck, a zoo in Hamburg. He visited islands between Flores and the Kei islands, by order of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin between 1887-1888. Important ethnographic study with descriptions of houses, utensils, clothes, ornaments, weapons, etc.Ruinen C 274.

Keywords: Indonesia Islands Moluccas indonesia exploration

Price: EUR 324.50 = appr. US$ 352.68 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 12342