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Pleyte, C.M.Indonesian Art. Selected Specimens of Ancient and Modern Art and Handwork from the Dutch Indian Archipelago.The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, 1901. First edition Large folio, 48 x 35 cm., 60 pp. & 24 fine collotype plates (the last plate : n°25 is missing), cloth-backed board portfolio slighly rubbed on corners, inside clean. The Dutch colony of Indonesia, portraying both ancient Javanese sculpture and ethnographic artefacts from throughout the archipelago. Published to coincide with the colonial exhibition in Amsterdam. the plates depict wooden statuettes, gold and bronze Buddhas, idols, weapons, shawls, paintings on cotton, puppets and so on from Bali, Java, Sumba, Damar and Borneo.