Author: BICKMORE, Albert S(mith).
Title: Reizen in den Oost-Indischen archipel. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien door J.J. de Hollander.
Description: Schiedam, H.A.M. Roelants, 1873.2 volumes. Contemporary half green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With 2 folding lithographed maps. XVI,314; VII,291 pp.First published in English Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London 1868. - The American professor in natural history Bickmore (1839-1914), sponsored by the Boston Society of Natural History, arrived in 1865 in Indonesia to study the natural history. Besides the flora and fauna he also devoted a great deal of attention to the physical geography and the population. The concept of a Western and Eastern division between the Indonesian peoples was initiated by him. Batavia, Semarang, Surabaya, Celebes, the Moluccas, Sumatra and Singapore were visited. He was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. - Fine. Tiele 118; Cat. NHSM I, p.248; Cat. KITLV p.5.

Keywords: Batavia Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia ethnography Indonesia general Islands Moluccas Singapore