Vue du Tombeau du Raja de Taybeno, sur l'ile Timor

by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago

A$135 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Paris. (circa 1825). Black and white engraving, 34 x 31.5 cm, lower edge foxed, not affecting the plate. Fine engraving, plate number 29 from Louis de Freycinet's: 'Voyage Autour du Monde. Atlas Historique.' The inscription (in Dutch) on the tomb of a chief reads "Hier leydt Tainoof K V Taibeno..... More

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