Views of Australia & Oceania · 19th century
€ 330
One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
please study image carefully.
Antique print titled 'Die Ceremonie des Kava bei dem Häuptling Palu'. Old print depicting a Kava Ceremony on Tonga Tabu. This print originates from 'Entdeckungs, Reise der Franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe Unternomen auf Befehl Konig Karls X'. These are the German titled views originally issued in Dumont d'Urville 'Voyage Autor du Monde'.
Artists and Engravers: Engraved by K.J. Brodtmann after L.A. de Sainson.
Condition: Good, please study image carefully.
Date: c.1836
Overall size: 34.5 x 25.5 cm.
Image size: 25 x 17 cm.
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