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Apparently depicts the arrival at the valley of Alexander Loudon and his friends, holding chickens with which to test the toxic fumes emerging from the ground, as described in Loudon's letter communicated to the Royal Geographical Society by John Barrow, 28 December 1831, and reported by various journals

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 15.6 x 24.7 cm

Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.

Seafarers' library

xliv, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Voyages to the East Indies / Christopher Fryke and Christopher Schweitzer ; with introduction and notes by C. Ernest Fayle.

247 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Beschouwingen omtrent verbreiding en besmettingswijze van pest, in verband met waarneming en proefondervindelijk onderzoek op java : academisch proefschrift ... / door Louis Otten.

Dissertation sur les effets d'un poison de Java, appelé Upas tieuté, et sur la noix vomique, la fève de St.-Ignace, le Strychnos potatorum, et la pomme de Vontac, qui sont du même genre de plantes que l'Upas tieuté ... / par Alire Raffeneau-Delile.

This amateur film, which has been edited semi-professionally with additional intertitles and maps to orientate the viewer, consists of footage shot on the BMA's World Tour. This reel has mostly unique material and begins with views of Singapore harbour. A traffic policeman is seen in operation - the traffic is very light. A garden party is given by the Singaporean branch of the BMA; it's clearly a mixed gathering of Europeans, Asians and Eurasians. There is a snake charmer. Next, onto Kuala Lumpur to visit a leper colony, the tin mines and to see rubber tapping. There is extraordinary footage of a man's heart beating in his open chest cavity. Dr Watson Smith stands by a rubber tree. There are brief exterior shots of the Selangor Club, the BMA headquarters. The next stop is Penang before the homeward journey via S.S. Rajputana to London. At the dockside, boats are loaded. Arriving at Colombo, the group is welcomed by the Ceylon branch of the BMA. Then onwards to Bombay - another sequence of a snake charmer. Venom is extracted (duplicate material). There is a reception by the Bombay branch of the BMA together with mute footage of the meeting.

BMA world tour

1 encoded moving image (16:41 min.) : silent, black and white.

BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 5.

Asia, east by south

x, 281 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Opium to Java : revenue farming and Chinese enterprise in colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 / James R. Rush.

Another photograph of the same subject is captioned by the photographer "a prayer of thanks to Dewi Sri for her gift – By the will of Allah – of rice to the house. No rice is ever received into the home without this ceremony being performed by the housewife". Dewi Sri is the Javanese goddess of rice and fertility

1 photograph : photoprint, matte silver gelatin, with watercolour ; sheet 7.9 x 13.9 cm

A Javanese woman praying in thanks for rice. Coloured photograph by E.T. Sheaf, 191-.

6 unnumbered pages, 93 unnumbered leaves of plates (3 folded; some color) : illustrations (7 color), facsimiles, folded map, music, fldg. plans, portraits ; (4to)

Antiquarian, architectural, and landscape illustrations of The history of Java / by the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. F.R.S. Formerly Lieut.-Governor of Java and its dependencies, etc. etc. ; with a large map of Java and its dependencies and several interesting plates now first published.

Kölner medizinhistorische Beiträge

277 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.

Emil Kraepelins Forschungsreise nach Java im Jahre 1904 : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Ethnopsychiatrie / Christoph Bendick.

This amateur film, which has been edited semi-professionally with additional intertitles and maps to orientate the viewer, consists of footage shot on the BMA's World Tour. This reel begins with duplicate material of 'Leaving Melbourne for Sydney and Jenolan Caves on SS Nieuw Zeeland'; the group splits into two parties. One party travelled on the SS Marella via Port Darwin to Java and Singapore and the other via Bali. The film follows the group who go to the caves, travelling along the coast from Sydney to Port Darwin. There is a long shot of a man throwing a boomerang. More larking about on board ship is seen before arrival at Port Darwin. In a hangar, there is a shiny silver Qantas airline plane. Aboriginal men perform for onlookers. The arrives in the Dutch East Indies and Bali. The Bali material is unique to this itinerary. The group arrive at the time of a celebration and Buddhist funeral; there is traditional dancing. In Java there is a funeral procession which is a very simple affair. There are local boys dancing and ram fighting in Ngamplang. At Djocja there is footage of the Sultan's bodyguard and scenes at the impressive Borobudur Temple. A large group of tourists gather and the camera pans across the group.

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Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.

Voyages to the East Indies / Christopher Fryke and Christopher Schweitzer ; with introduction and notes by C. Ernest Fayle.

Beschouwingen omtrent verbreiding en besmettingswijze van pest, in verband met waarneming en proefondervindelijk onderzoek op java : academisch proefschrift ... / door Louis Otten.

Dissertation sur les effets d'un poison de Java, appelé Upas tieuté, et sur la noix vomique, la fève de St.-Ignace, le Strychnos potatorum, et la pomme de Vontac, qui sont du même genre de plantes que l'Upas tieuté ... / par Alire Raffeneau-Delile.

BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 5.

Opium to Java : revenue farming and Chinese enterprise in colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 / James R. Rush.

A Javanese woman praying in thanks for rice. Coloured photograph by E.T. Sheaf, 191-.

Antiquarian, architectural, and landscape illustrations of The history of Java / by the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. F.R.S. Formerly Lieut.-Governor of Java and its dependencies, etc. etc. ; with a large map of Java and its dependencies and several interesting plates now first published.

Emil Kraepelins Forschungsreise nach Java im Jahre 1904 : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Ethnopsychiatrie / Christoph Bendick.

BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 4.

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Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.

Voyages to the East Indies / Christopher Fryke and Christopher Schweitzer ; with introduction and notes by C. Ernest Fayle.

Beschouwingen omtrent verbreiding en besmettingswijze van pest, in verband met waarneming en proefondervindelijk onderzoek op java : academisch proefschrift ... / door Louis Otten.

Dissertation sur les effets d'un poison de Java, appelé Upas tieuté, et sur la noix vomique, la fève de St.-Ignace, le Strychnos potatorum, et la pomme de Vontac, qui sont du même genre de plantes que l'Upas tieuté ... / par Alire Raffeneau-Delile.

BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 5.

Opium to Java : revenue farming and Chinese enterprise in colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 / James R. Rush.

A Javanese woman praying in thanks for rice. Coloured photograph by E.T. Sheaf, 191-.

Antiquarian, architectural, and landscape illustrations of The history of Java / by the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. F.R.S. Formerly Lieut.-Governor of Java and its dependencies, etc. etc. ; with a large map of Java and its dependencies and several interesting plates now first published.

Emil Kraepelins Forschungsreise nach Java im Jahre 1904 : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Ethnopsychiatrie / Christoph Bendick.

BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 4.

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