Boro-Boedoer op Het Eiland Java & Boro-Boedoer Dans L'ile de Java

Published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1874

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Two elephant folios, 3/4 black leather and green cloth boards, gilt lettering and ruling, tan illustrated end papers. First portfolio contains title page in Dutch and French, followed by lithographed plates numbered I-CC (several on multiple sheets). Second portfolio contains lithographed plates CCI-CCCXCIII. Several plates are folded. Each plate is captioned in French and Dutch. Accompanying text volume bound in 3/4 black leather, 4 raised bands and gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, gilt and brown silky end papers; LXIII, 696 pp, divided into three parts: Premiere Partie, Description de Boro-Boudour. Deuxieme Partie, Description des Bas-Reliefs Sur les Differentes Galeries. Troisieme Partie, A. Du Caractere et de la Destination de Boro-Boudoir, a Propos D'une Comparaison de ce Temple Avec d'Autres Edifices Sacres sur le Continent et a Java. B. Les Statues du Bouddha sur les Murs d'Euceinte et Sur les Terrasses. Text is in Dutch and French. Depicted by and under the supervision of F.C. Wilsen, with explanatory and explanatory text, after the written and printed treatises of F.C. Wilsen, J.F.G. Brumund and other records, edited and published by order of His Excellency the Colonial Secretary, by Dr. C. Leemans. This is a monumental publication on the Borobudur (the entire process took over 17 years). Volume 1 weighs 50 pounds, volume 2 weighs 46 pounds and the smaller text volume weighs 5 pounds. Fair (rare and complete set of the 393 plates, heavy shelfwear and tears to portfolios lacking some pieces of the Portfolio for the first 100 plates, front cover loose for the first volume, light foxing and age toning throughout, double plate I has damp staining along corners into illustration, plates are otherwise clear, some with minor edge tears resulting from the covers being loose and handling. Text volume has shelfwear to covers, leather spine torn in one spot, pages expected age toning but otherwise very clear.).…

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Title
Boro-Boedoer op Het Eiland Java & Boro-Boedoer Dans L'ile de Java
Author
Leemans, Conradus and Carel Frans Wilsen
Publisher
E.J. Brill, Leiden
Publication year
1874
Binding
Hardcover
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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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