76/ 964 [Ceylon]. Haafner, J. Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. Amst., G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1826, VIII,LX,263p., engr. title, 2 fold. plates and 1 handcol. plate by R. VINKELES after J. HAAFNER, later hleather.

- Trifle foxed/ fingersoiled; new (mismatching) endpapers.

= Tiele 435; Landwehr, VOC 350; Landwehr, Dutch Books Col. Plates 297-298; De Silva/ Beumer 461/462 (i.a. listing the first edition published in 1810). Posthumously published, i.a. describing the flora and fauna of Ceylon. "Importance of Haafner's eyewitness accounts is that they were done during the time of decay of the VOC. (...) Haafner was an anti-colonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed." (De Silva).