Sumatra Illustrated - - Sumatra's Westcoast Illustrated. Orig. Edn.

Weltevreden, Encyclopaedisch Bureau, 1920. sm. 8°. Orig. wraps., illustration pasted in centre of front wrapper. 97pp. Many ills. after photographs, of which many full-page, some tables in text, large vertical fold. map with key, depict. the motor-road from Medan to Padang, large fold. col. map depict. the provinces or residencies Westcoast Sumatra with extensive legenda and key, 1: 750.000, corrigendum printed on verso of page 97, text, illustrations and plates printed within a nice ornamental typographical border, list of photographs. [No. 1 of the series]. A lavishly illustrated and detailed 'guide' to the provinces or residencies Westcoast Sumatra. Ills. and plates depict. landscape sceneries, bridges, important municipal buildings, native architecture, adat houses, local females and males in traditional or adat costume, female traditional gold and silver jewellery. women of Nias, 5 ills. depict. attitudes of so-called mementjak combat at Fort de Kock, &c. A fine copy. Scarce. (spine skilfully restored with a thin cloth strip, staples removed, some light traces of offsetting in centre-fold).