Expédition de la Célèbes Centrale. Voyages géologiques et géographiques à travers la Célèbes Centrale (1909-1910). Volumes I-III (text), atlas. [Complete].

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1916. Three text volumes in three. 8vo (27.3 x 19.1 cm). 1615 pp. [xxviii, xvi, xxii,1549]; 183 plates and maps, 140 text figures. [AND] atlas folio (55.0 x 38.0 cm). Text with eight photogravures, 138 photographs, maps, numerous figures [AND] atlas with title page (double, French/Dutch) one coloured explanatory chart (36 different colours) and 17 mostly coloured folded geological maps and/or profiles (numbered 1, II, 3-11, 12a, 12b, 13-16). Original uniform black and gilt printed olive cloth (text), original printed portfolio (atlas). = Fine copy of one of the main geological surveys of Celebes, or Sulawesi (Indonesia). Especially rare because of its completeness and excellent state, with the original, elaborately decorated bindings present and intact. Very richly illustrated with maps, views, etc. Written by the Dutch geologist and mining engineer Eduard Cornelius Abendanon (1878-1962). There is also a Dutch edition; the French edition, however, is rarer. Preliminary pages are numbered separately, the main text numbered consecutively. Small library stamp on front free endpapers and atlas portfolio, otherwise this is a fine set in near mint condition. Not in Cat. BM(NH).