ADIYANTO, A.S. (Preface), Nusa Tenggara Barat; Guide Book Lombok and Sumbawa. [Original edition].
S.I., Tourism Development Project, 1996 Small slim 8°., original coloured illustrated limp glossy wrappers. [110]pp. Many coloured illustrations of which full-page, 8 full-page coloured maps, table of contents.
English language tourist guide, promoting islands of Eastern Indonesia, Lombok, Bima, Sumbawa, which includes a general introduction, places to visit and a special chapter describing tourist attractions. Fine copy.

AMAN, S.D.B., Folk Tales from Indonesia. Retold. Orig. edn.
Jakarta, Djambatan, 1976 sm. 8°. Orig. limp glossy wraps. 114pp. 11 plates after photographs by "Foto Deppen", vocabularies to each chapter, english-indonesian at very end, table of contents.
A collection of tog. 18 folktales from all over Indonesia (:) North Sulawesi, Aceh, West Java, West Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Roti, Kai or Kei-Islands, Kalimantan, Flores. Nice copy.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ON EAST TIMOR, Power and Impunity. Human Rights under the New Order. Indonesia & East Timor. First edn.
London, Amnesty International, 1994 Small 8°, limp pict. col. wraps., 126pp., plates, text-ills., full-p. sketch-map, short glossary (incl. acronyms).
Describes in extenso the violation of human rights by the Suharto administration on Portuguese Timor, during so-called "Orde Baru" (New Order). Fine copy.

ARNDT, P.[P]. (SVD), Gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse der Ngadha. Orig. edn.
Wien-Mödling, St. Gabriel, 1954 large 8°. orig.clothbacked black lettered boards. Hftitle(verso blank).(xii), 543pp. list of contents, legenda to fold. map at end of volume printed on [2]pp. ["Studia Insituti Anthropos, vol. 8"].
Author collected material for this study in loco since 1924, i.e. before the christianization of the Ngadha, a tribe living at Southcoast Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands, Eastern Indonesia), although he remarks that interrelations as studied in this work, have not really changed under the influence of christianity. After a concise description of country, population and indigenous scripture, author thoroughly analyzes social relations among the Ngadha: Marriage and married life, the child, cross-cousin relations, Clans and ranks & files, village-structure, occupations & possessions, judicial structure and penal law. An excellent study. Good copy. Rare.(name on first blank, fr.inner joint somewhat weakening but still tight, corners somewhat damaged, 1 with a bump, bump to upper and lower margin of upper cover).

ARNDT, P.P.[S.V.D.], Grammatik der Sika-Sprache. First edn.
Endeh(Flores), Arnoldus [missions] Druckerei, 1935 sm.8°. orig. printed wraps. 52pp. Stapled.
Grammar of the Sika or Sikka-language, Eastern Central Flores (Maumere-region), based upon the first attempt, but enlarged after new field-research by a S.V.D. missionary, by F. Calon's publication of 1895. Good copy. Scarce. (small ex-lib. label pasted on left corner of upper wrap, signature on ti.-p.)

BARBIER, J.-P. & D. NEWTON (editors), Islands and Ancestors. Indigenous styles of Southeast Asia. Original edition.
München, Prestel, 1988 Small 4°., original boards, title in black type on spine, dustjacket. 362pp. Coloured frontispiece, many coloured plates and ills. on plates, many black/white ills. in text and on plates, souble-page regional sketch-map, some sketch-maps in text, glossaries to contributions, bibliography, table of contents.
Detailed review of ancestral art, craft, effigies in bronze, stone, wood and bone of the indigenous people of Southeast Asia with expert contributions by Douglas Lewis (Reflections in Bronze, Capita and Dong-Son art in the Western Pacific); Jacques Dournes (Autochthonous People of Central Vietnam); Jerome Feldman (the seat of the ancestors in the homeland of the Nias people); Jean Paul Barbier (A stone rider of the Batak of Sumatra); Nicole Revel-Macdonald (The Dayak of Borneo. On the Ancestors, the Dead and the Living); Maribeth Erb (Flores, Cosmology, Art and Ritual); David Hicks (Art and religion on Timor); Susan McKinnon (Tanimbar Boats); George R. Ellis (Ifugao Art); &c. Very good copy.

BARONE, A. - F. CATALUCCIO, F. MILONE, V. ORILLIA (et.al.), Asia. Transl. into spanish from the original Italian ("Geographica. L'Uomo e la Terra").
Barcelona, 1976 large thick 8°. Orig. cloth. 493pp. Num. plates and text-ills, of which coloured, double-p. maps, num. sketch-maps. & tables in text, table of contents and maps. ["Geographica, el hombre y la Tierra", Asia/VI].
A lavishly illustrated and well-documented encyclopaedic review, of the geography and population of Asia (Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Asia minor) (:) Malaysia, Brunei, Portuguese Timor, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, india, kashmir, pakistan bangladesh nepal bhutan, sikkim, Ceylon, Afghanistan, Iran, Bahrein, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jornan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen and Turkey. A very fine copy.

BEKKUM, W. VAN, Manggaraische Kunst.
Leiden, 1946 Small 8°, original printed wraps., (8)pp. of text, 52 ills. on 8 plates o.o.t., 2 plans & 2 sketch-maps. ["Koninklijke Vereeniging Indisch Instituut, Meded. no. LXVIII-Afd. Volkenkunde No. 21".].
Woordcarvings on houses at Todo & Pongkor, other crafts as found among the Manggarai of Flores. Scarce. (small part of lower right corner of upper-wrap clipped).

BERTLING, C.T.(Preface), Tentoonstelling van Oost-Indonesische Kunst. Schilderijen, Beeldhouwwerk, weefsels en Zilverwerk. Ter gelegenheid van het Gouden Regeringsjubileum van H.M. Koningin Wilhelmina. [Exhibition Catalogue], 25 Augustus-1 October 1948, "Indisch Instituut", Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Indisch Instituut, 1948 sm.8°. orig. decorated wraps. 39pp. ills. on 8 plates out-of-text.
Exhibition Eastern Indonesian Arts, as held upon the occasion of the golden Jubilee of [the late] Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Catalogue listing and describing tog. 78 pieces: paintings, carvings, weavings and silver-work from Eastern Indonesia, i.e. Bali. Amongst the artists we find a.o. I Dewa Gede Tjoekit, I Kenjod, Ida Bagoes Belawa, Ireneh, I Goesti Made Baret, I Regoeg, I Dewa Njoman Tjita, Ida Bagoes Togog, Ida Bagoes Wadja...; plates depict. balinese paintings, balinese woodcarvings and 2 balinese ikats.

BERTLING, Tj.(Introd.), Indonésie. Les Arts et les Dieux. Sumatra, Java, Bali, Timor, Bornéo, Célèbes, Iles du Sud-Ouest. Exhibition catalogue Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchatel, 4 novembre 1956 au 10 février 1957.
Neuchatel, Musée d'Ethnographie, 1956 sm.8°. orig. pict. col. wraps. 32pp. Ills. on 7 plates out-of-text, fold. sketch-map with legenda, [5]pp. of local sponsoring advertis., incl. printed inside wraps., list of abbrev. used.
Catalogue listing and describing a great number of pieces exhibited: arts & crafts from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Timor, Borneo, Sulawesi and the South-western Islands. Vary fine copy.

BINNERTS, C., "Alles is in orde, Heeren...!" Een dagboek van het eiland Flores uit het jaar 1943. Orig. edn.
Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1947 Small 8°. orig. lettered wraps. 106pp.
Diary of a POW May-Dec. 1943, the voyage by SS "Tazima Maru" from Java to Flores & the stay at Maumere-camp. Scarce original edn.

BLEEKER, P. (Chief editor, et.al.), Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië. Uitgegeven door de Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch Indië. Vol. XIX, Vierde Serie [Fourth Series], Volume V. Original edition.
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1859 Small stout 8°., modern private calfbacked heavy boards, new endpapers. (vi) (table of contents), 476pp. Occasional tables in text. Interrleaved copy.
Odd volume of this dutch language scientific journal running between 1850-1940, with many scientific contributions by dutch and foreign [english] scholars dealing with the Natural History, e.g. Physics, Flora and Fauna of nineteenth Century colonial Indonesia. Includes an extensive alphabetical register by G.J. Filet of Plantnames with indonesian malay, botanical and family names, (pp.1-280); Report on the occuranse of raw material suitable for Paper manufacture in the Archipelago by D.W. Rost Van Tonningen (pp. (281-312); Catalogue of the Hopterous Insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of New Species, by Fr. Walker(p. 361-398) and other contributions by a.o. P. Bleeker (fishes of Sumbawa), H. von Rosenberg (journey to New Guinea) and miscellaneous notes. Very good and clean copy.

BOELE VAN HENSBROEK, P.A.M., De Beoefening der Oostersche Talen in Nederland en zijne Overzeesche Bezittingen 1800-1874. Bibliographisch Overzicht. Orig. edn.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1875 Small 4°., orig. boards, (4), 107pp., register.
Arranged according to languages, this bibliography is of special interest for the study of Semitic and Indonesian languages as : Sumatran languages: Toba, Batak, Mandailing, Dairi, Menang Kabau; of Mentawei Islands, etc.; of Java & Madura; Eastern Indonesia (:Balinese, Sumbanese, Sumbawanese, Timorese, Rotinese, etc.). Fine copy. Scarce.

BOERSEMA, J.A., Huwelijksbetalingen. Een antropologisch-ethisch onderzoek naar de bruidsprijs op Oost-Sumba. Orig. edn.
Zoetermeer, Boekencentrum, 1997 orig.limp glossy black wraps, title in white lettering on upper wrap., and a detail of a Sumba-Ikat. 270pp. Extensive footnotes, list of literature cited, registers, author's C.V., summaries in english and bahasa indonesia, publ. list on [2]pp. at very end. ["Mission", [18]].
Marriage Payments. An anthropological-ethical investigation of the bride-price in East-Sumba, eastern Indonesia; a century-old problem for dutch protestant missionary labour [on Sumba]. Very fine copy. Scarce.

BOOMGAARD, P. - H.A. POEZE & G. TERMORSHUIZEN (compilers), God in Indië. Bekerings verhalen uit de negentiende eeuw. Orig. edn.
Leiden, KITLV uitgeverij, 1997 Orig. pict. col. stiff wraps. 156pp. 13 plates, incl. some portrs., being facsims. after 19th century illustrations, full0-p. sketch-map, glossary, orig. publ. promotional flyer loosely inserted.
Contains, besides an introduction, tog. 11 authentic missionary conversion stories from nineteenth century Indonesia (:) Minahasa, Borneo, Flores, dutch New Guinea (Merauke district), &c. Very good copy. Out-of-Print.

BOXER, C.R. (Major), The Topasses of Timor. [First edition].
Amsterdam, Koninklijke Vereeniging Indisch Instituut, 1947 Small 8°. Original stiff wrappers with cover title. Stapled. 22pp. Facsims. on 2 monochrome plates, one with legenda, after old portuguese archivalia, facsim. 1 ull page sketch-map, facsim. map of the Beach of Lifao 1704, footnotes/references, bibliography. ["Mededeling" No. LXXXIII, Afdeling Volkenkunde No. 24].
English language contribution describing the origin and history of the so-called "Topasses", 'Toepassen', or [in dutch] 'Swarte Portugeezen', e.g. the mestizos of Portuguese Timor, which includes the etymology of the term Topasses, notes on the conquest of Asia by the Portuguese and the Fortress on Solor, established by the Dominicans in the sixteenth Century. Very interesting. Very good copy. Scarce.