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JAVA -- GRONEMAN, J. In den Kedaton te Jogjakarta. Oepatjara Ampilan en tooneeldansen. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1888. 1 vol. of text and 1 clamshell portfol. 69 pp. W. 17 (numbered Ia, Ib, II-XVI). or. photographs (each c. 182 x 275 mm) on mounts, each w. an overlay containing explanatory text. Lge-8° and fol.-obl. Or. gilt dec. cl. (Lower blank margin of text booklet partially affected by insect dam., portfol. partly a bit dam. and slightly stained on the exterior, first 'overlay' a bit dam. and rep., but altog. a very decent set).
Dance scenes and court musicians photographed in 1884 by the Javanese indigenous photographer Kassian Céphas, official photographer to the Sultans of Jogyakarta, published by the Dutch ethnographer J. Groneman. This is the so-called 'red atlas edition' which came with a text booklet, unlike the 'green atlas edition'. Photographs in very good condition with good tonal range. - Rouffaer/Muller p. 14.€ 800
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