Mebold’s Welt-Gemälde Gallerie. oceanien. 1., 2. und 3.

Title

Mebold’s Welt-Gemälde Gallerie. oceanien. 1., 2. und 3.

Travel description of the three volumes "Welt-Gemälde-Gallerie oder Geschichte und Beschreibung aller Länder und Völker, ihrer Religionen, Sitten, Gebräuche u. s. w.". With many pictorial representations of locations of important places, old and new monuments, costumes, implements, art objects, various other objects and maps. Altogether 244 illustrations and one folding map. Oceania. Volume 1. The Malay Lands and Micronesia on 352 pages. Overview of illustrations (sheets 1-84) and two folding maps (Oceania and Malesia). Oceania. Volume 2. Polynesia on 524 pages. Overview of illustrations (sheets 85-170) and a folding map of Polynesia and Micronesia. Oceania. Third volume. Posynesia (conclusion). Melanesia. New Holland on 650 pages. Including index from the first to the third volume, overview of the illustrations of the first, second and third volume (sheets 171-244) and a folding map of Melanesia. Partly views browned. Very decorative cover.

c. 1840

Artist

Schweizerbart E.