Sale 623: Fine Books in All Fields (#623) 08/31/2017 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 27 of 478:
Ye "Darmo Lelangon", 1912  

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Estimate:
$300 - $500

Title:
Ye "Darmo Lelangon": a Royal Song Without Words From the Isle of Lombok

Author:
Pleyte, C.M.

Place:
Batavia

Publisher:
G. Kolff & Co.

Date:
[1912]

Description:

24, [8], pp. Plus 11 pages of plates containing a total of 83 numbered facsimiles of the original palm leaf manuscript by Nengah Gria Mendara. Text in double columns, in English and Dutch. (Folio) 48x34 cm (19x13"), original half blue cloth and boards, gilt title.

The famous Balinese Lontar Darmo Lelangon for the first time transcribed into Dutch and English, with facsimile illustrations after the original lontar or palm leave manuscript, being early Balinese religious texts and litanies. with 24 pp. of extensive descriptions of the plates. Scarce.


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Condition:
Fair amount of wear and staining to boards with rubbing to extremities, vertical splitting to spine cloth with some chips and closed tears; toning to page edges with occasional minor chip or closed tear; very good.


 
Item number:
285307
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