Bookstore 'De Verre Volken' is established inside the National Museum of Ethnology at Leiden and specializes in books on the material culture of non-Western civilizations.

Terms and additional information.

Kindly note that due to currency fluctuations and/or publisher's policy prices may change without prior notice. Book prices are in European Euros. One Euro is circa one US Dollar.
For all orders from outside the Netherlands payment should be made by way of a creditcard. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD and AMEX. Please let us know cardnumber and expirydate. With Visa and Mastercards we need the 3 digit safety-code (CVV or CVC) also. These digits are the last 3 numbers on the back of your card in the signature line. If payment is made in any other form we are compelled to charge a EUR 10.00 bank 'collection' charge per payment.
Museums, libraries and other institutions may remit on receipt of order.

The books are dispatched at customer's own risk. Postal charges are added to the invoice. Kindly indicate whether we should dispatch the books by registered or regular post. Registered shipments are USD 5.00 extra per parcel. Shipping is at cost + 1 USD per parcel. Please indicate: economy, economy air-mail or priority post. The latter is circa 50% faster but also 50% more expensive. Economy air-mail to the USA: 8-20 days. To Japan: 10-20 days. To Australia: 12-20 days. If not indicated the book(s) will be sent economy air-mail, not registered.

If the book(s) is/are not in the state as described, you can return the book(s) to us at our expense. It is always the paperback edition when the binding of the book is not mentioned in the description.

The museumbookstore is closed on Monday.

Please note: we are always interested in purchasing books on African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art. e-mail: info@ethnographicartbooks.com