CONRAD LEEMANS (b. 1809)
CONRAD LEEMANS (b. 1809)
CONRAD LEEMANS (b. 1809) Bôrô-Boedoer op het Eiland Java. Afgebeeld door en onder toezigt van F.C.Wilsen... en J.F.G. Brumund... Bôrô-Boudour dans l'île de Java. Dessiné par ou sous la direction de M.F.C. Wilsen . Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1873-1874. 2 vols., 8° (235 x 155mm) and 4 vols. elephant 2° (570 x 365mm). Vol. I text in Dutch, vol. II in French. Folio volumes with 393 lithographic plates, some folding. (Occasional browning or spotting.) Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered. VERY RARE AND HANDSOME SET OF A MONUMENTAL WORK on Borobodur, the drawings for this immense task having taken four years to complete. Frans Carel Wilsen (1818-1889) executed them directly from the temples' bas reliefs, with the assistance of J.F.G. Brumund and Schônberg Muller, in a "daring and proud enterprise". Vol. I folio contains the magnificent double-page view of the temples and a folding plan of the complex; the remainder of the plates are mostly line lithographs. The complete work was edited by Leemans, director of the Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, and lithographed and printed by C.W. Mieling in The Hague over a fifteen-year period. Although a few plates initially were drawn on stone in Indonesia the task proved too overwhelming for the facilities at the Lithographic Establishment of the Engineers. Haks & Maris p.296; Bastin & Brommer p.27, 43, note 643. (6)
CONRAD LEEMANS (b. 1809)
CONRAD LEEMANS (b. 1809)
CONRAD LEEMANS (b. 1809) Bôrô-Boedoer op het Eiland Java. Afgebeeld door en onder toezigt van F.C.Wilsen... en J.F.G. Brumund... Bôrô-Boudour dans l'île de Java. Dessiné par ou sous la direction de M.F.C. Wilsen . Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1873-1874. 2 vols., 8° (235 x 155mm) and 4 vols. elephant 2° (570 x 365mm). Vol. I text in Dutch, vol. II in French. Folio volumes with 393 lithographic plates, some folding. (Occasional browning or spotting.) Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered. VERY RARE AND HANDSOME SET OF A MONUMENTAL WORK on Borobodur, the drawings for this immense task having taken four years to complete. Frans Carel Wilsen (1818-1889) executed them directly from the temples' bas reliefs, with the assistance of J.F.G. Brumund and Schônberg Muller, in a "daring and proud enterprise". Vol. I folio contains the magnificent double-page view of the temples and a folding plan of the complex; the remainder of the plates are mostly line lithographs. The complete work was edited by Leemans, director of the Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, and lithographed and printed by C.W. Mieling in The Hague over a fifteen-year period. Although a few plates initially were drawn on stone in Indonesia the task proved too overwhelming for the facilities at the Lithographic Establishment of the Engineers. Haks & Maris p.296; Bastin & Brommer p.27, 43, note 643. (6)
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