Author: Bonaparte, R. [N.]
Title: Les récents voyages des Néerlandais à la Nouvelle-Guinée. [AND] Les derniers voyages des Néerlandais à la Nouvelle-Guinée.
Description: Versailles, l'auteur, 1885. Two papers in one. Small 4to. Half-titles and titles in red and black; 16; 40 pp.; two chromolithographed folded, tissue-guarded maps, one table. Later blind quarter cloth over marbled boards. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Offprints, on behalf of the author, of works published in the Comptes Rendus de la Société de Géographie de Paris. The author, Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (1858-1924) was a French prince and president of the Société de Géographie from 1910 until his death (Wikipedia). As a renowned traveller and anthropologist, he was especially interested in Suriname (Dutch Guyana) and Dutch New Guinea, now Irian Jaya. Printed in very small numbers and therefore rare. Provenance: the name A. Beaujon stamped in both title pages top margin. Anthony Beaujon (1853-1890) was a Dutch professor. Also with a small, printed label "Legaat P. A. de Lange" on front wrapper versos. Otherwise very good, clean.

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