Nieuwenkamp - Bali En Lombok. Zijnde Een Verzameling Geïllustreerde Reisherinneringen En Studies Omtrent Land En Volk, Kunst En Kunstnijverheid. First Edn.

[Edam], a/b. van de Zwerver, 1906-, 1910. large oblong 4°. full white vellum, giltlettered title in bold type, with large gilt tooled vignette at tail of title on upper cover, lower cover with another large gilt tooled vignette in centre, t.e.g. 2 blanks, hftitle (verso blank), title printed in red and black, large vignette in black at tail, verso blank, red-initialled Provenance printed on recte of next blank, signed by Nieuwenkamp at tail. Introd. printed on verso and recte of next p.(verso blank), initialled in red, gilt onamented endppers. 234, IVpp.(list of contents and explanat. to plates), [2]pp.(verso blank), 3 blanks at end, with tail-vignette in centre of verso of first end-blank. Large to very large illustrations to each chapter,with captions in red, large initials in red, further initialling in red throughout text, decorative endpieces, many full-p. plates and num. text-ills., all after author's drawings, each chapter is preceded by a blank [leave]. The famous first edn. of Nieuwenkamp's impressions of Bali and Lombock, during 2 visits, of which his 2nd. journey is the most important, covering the period May 1906-April 1907, financed by dutch colonial administration, in order to collect Balinese & Lombock Arts & Crafts.The author was the first artist to visit Bali. His detailed drawings depict. principally arts & crafts from Bali(: houses, temples, weavings, woodcarvings, paintings, &c..). Privately published in a limited edn. of tog. 400 numbered copies only, bound in white vellum, this copy bears nr. 213, signed in ink by Nieuwenkamp. each chapter is preceded by a blank [leave], printed with wide margins. Very rare. God to very good copy (tiny spot near edge of front boards, tiny superficial crack to lower right corner of front boards, both not disturbing however).