Description: , Leiden [..], E.J. Brill, [..], [1873-1874], consisting of a letterpress title-leaf (with parallel Dutch & French text), 8 (almost ident.) letterpress leaves (all front-wrappers of 8 separate published fascicles incorporating a lithogr. view of the Borobudur by J. Lobatto Rzn after H.N. Sieburgh, ca. 19 x 32 cm.) & 401 tinted lithogr. plates with Dutch & French captions (numb. “I-II, III(a-d), IV(a-b), V(a-d), VI-XIII, XIV(a-b) & XV-CCCXCIII” in the stone, nearly all with oval blind-stamp of “Departement van Kolonien” in blank margin) by C.W. Mieling after i.a. F.C. Wilsen & G. Sch?nberg Mülder. Large folio (ca. 64 x 47,5 cm.), loose as issued in 4 matching 20th-cent. cardboard boxes. ? Rouffaer/ Muller p. 538. Bastin/ Brommer p. 196. Very rare plate-volume (published in 8 instalments, but complete in itself) of a monumental publication on the Borobudur (of which the printing process took over 17 years to complete) edited by the Dutch archaeologist Conrad Leemans (1809-1893) & illustrated with large-sized lithographs (dep. base reliefs of the Borobudur) after drawings by i.a. Frans Carel Wilsen (1813-1889). ? Lacks the accompanying text-volume. With defects (title-leaf & 1 lithograph sl. marg. waterstained, front-wrappers & most lithographs partly dam./ frayed in outer blank margins (occ. restored with tape on verso), sl. foxed/ browned (partly due to off-setting), small owner’s stamp in lower blank margin of front-wrappers), but altogether in an acceptable condition.