Aboeng Jungle, Sumatra — Antique Photogravure by C.J. Kleingrothe c.1900

Batak Kampong Village, Sumatra — Kleingrothe Photogravure c.1900 Original photogravure showing a Batak kampong (village) in the highlands of North Sumatra, photographed by C. J. Kle...

Antique print titled 'Soengei-Belawan - Virgin Jungle'. View of the jungle/forest and the Sungai Belawan river, Sumatra, Indonesia. This print originates from the album 'Sumatra’s O....

Borneo Road of the Sarawack is a Lithograph realized by an unknown artist of 19th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. No signature, Title on the lower margin.

'Coupang : Ile Timor. Divers Travaux Mécaniques' Steel-engraving by Friedrich Schroeder (1768-1839) after F Garnier after Alphonse Pellion. Alphonse Pellion, artist and naval draughtsman, was a midshipman aboard l'Uranie on Louis de Freycinet's three-year scientific and ethnographic expedition around the world in 1817-1820. From Louis Freycinet's 'Voyage Autour du Monde, Entrepris par Ordre du Roi ... Execue sur les Corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne Pendant les Annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820', published in Paris in 1825. Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842) joined the French Navy in 1793 and was a veteran of the Baudin's voyage of discovery (1801-1803). He also completed the narrative of the expedition which appeared under the title of 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes'. In 1817 de Freycinet successfully lobbied the Government and King Louis XVIII agreed to support a new global campaign. Its mission was to finally determine the shape of the earth and return with detailed reports on geography, people, government, commerce and art of this new world. The 350-ton corvette Uranie had a complement of 120 men and 23 officers including the artist Jacques Arago and a priest. Over the next three years Uranie visited Australia, East Timor...