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Volcanoes of Java. 1850 lithographs. Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, German-Dutch botanist and geologist. Many thanks to follower Uli Fruth who emailed me about them and quite a while ago but here they are. . .
Lemongan (Lembongan?), Frontispiece. taken from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java – deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. Volume I. 1850. Dutch. Chromolithograph. Published in Amsterdam by P.N. Van Kampen. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000592631/mode/1upGoenoeng Goentoer. Page 6 of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s 1854 atlas Java – deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. Dutch. Chromolithograph. Published in Amsterdam by P.N. Van Kampen. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002764683/page/n6/mode/1upTelaga Patengan. Goenoeng Goentoer. Page 7 of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s 1854 atlas Java – deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. Dutch. Chromolithograph. Published in Amsterdam by P.N. Van Kampen. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002764683/page/n7/mode/1upCunong gedeh. Page XV of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s 1854 atlas Java – deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. Dutch. Chromolithograph. Published in Amsterdam by P.N. Van Kampen. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002764683/page/XV/mode/1upGoenoeng Merapi. Page 11 of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s 1854 atlas Java – deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. Dutch. Chromolithograph. Published in Amsterdam by P.N. Van Kampen. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://ia800507.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/19/items/mobot31753002764683/mobot31753002764683_jp2.tar&file=mobot31753002764683_jp2/mobot31753002764683_0011.jp2&id=mobot31753002764683&scale=1&rotate=0
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