983 - Sumatra - Sumatra's O. K. With numerous photogravure prints on 64 plates on rolled-out China paper. Medan, circa 1900. Title page and 66 cardboard sheets in an original canvas folder with a mounted cover illustration and cover title. 37 x 46 cm (scuffed and slightly dusty).

Sumatra - Sumatra's O. K. With numerous photogravure prints on 64 plates on rolled-out China paper. Medan, circa 1900. Title page and 66 cardboard sheets in an original canvas folder with a mounted cover illustration and cover title. 37 x 46 cm (scuffed and slightly dusty). Elaborately produced portfolio of views featuring photogravures by J.B. Obernetter based on photographs by C.J. v. Kleingrothe. The plates mostly include captions in German, English, and Dutch. The large-format engravings (mostly approx. 21.5 to 25.5 cm x 31.5 to 36.5 cm) are printed on sturdy cardboard. - Featuring beautiful views of Medan, including its landmarks, rivers, villages, landscapes, tobacco plantations and tobacco processing, coffee plantations and coffee harvests, rubber tapping, indigenous people, and much more. - The German photographer Kleingrothe (1864–1925) was one of the most accomplished commercial photographers working in Southeast Asia at the turn of the century. After working for the renowned Singapore studio Lambert & Co., he settled in Medan, Sumatra, in 1889, where he produced extensive photographic documentation of the plantation economy and colonial infrastructure until 1925. - Some brown spots and a few faint water marks in places; overall in good condition.