R.D.M. Verbeek. Krakatau

Platenatlas. Brussels, Institute National de Geographie, (1884). Atlas vol. with 25 chromolithographic illustrations on 9 plates. Plates loose, without portfolio. Plates each 43 x 60 cm.

A few minimal marginal stains outside the image. Lithographs in bright colours. Views of the Krakatoa and surrounding area, made by Verbeek some two months after the eruption in 1883, with traces of destruction clearly visible. Very rare in this condition. Without the text vols.