Lorentz - Zwarte Menschen-witte Bergen. Verhaal Van Den Tocht Naar Het Sneeuwgebergte Nieuw Guinea. Original Edition.

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1913. Original gilt lettered red coloured cloth. (xii), 262pp., frontisp., 34 fine plates of which with tissue-guards (captions printed on guards), numerous text-ills. (incl. portrs.), endpiece-illustrations, of which many of anthropological & ethnographical interest, appendices (list of bearer's names), word-list, meteo-observations by W. van Bemmelen (rainfall) & a very large folded coloured track-map with legenda, loose in endpocket. GALIS, p.185A. Report of the famous Central New Guinea expedition (to the Snow Mountain Range), 1907, 1909/10 under command by author. Map drawn by J.W. van Nouhuys. A still important publication on this hitherto unexplored part of the former dutch territory of New Guinea. In original publ. cloth. Good copy. Scarce. (some stains at lower part of front boards, stain to lower outer boards, skilfully rebacked copy, new endpaper, hftitle preserved).