MAURIK, H. VAN Djokja achter de horizon. Introd. by S.H. SPOOR.
Nijmegen 1949 Orig. stiff blank wraps., with pict. dustjacket. 324pp., frontisp., ills. and plates after drawings by 'R'.
Eye-witness reports on the military situation in and around "djocja" (Yogyakarta) during the last phase of the dutch-indonesian dispute; when "Djocja" was the temporary seat of the 'Republik' Indonesia. (waterstain in lower margin of 1st blank, dj. with fraying esp. at spine-ends.)

MEEL, P. VAN (compiler), Stabelan. Jubileum-Nummer 31 augustus 1974-31 augustus 1989. Verhalen over en rod de historie van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger. [Originele uitgave/original edition].
S.I. [Dordrecht], Stabelan, 1989 Small 4°., original coloured and illustrated limp wrappers. 116pp. Many black/white illustrations in text after original [private] photographs, some portraits in text. ["Stabelan", vol. 16-nr.1].
Dutch language commemmorative publication on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of "Stabelan", with many contributions by association's members, being recollections of active service during the dutch-indonesian dispute 1945-1950 as gunners or with other army division. "Stabelan", a malay word which means Artillery, is a Dutch Association of former gunners serving with the Royal Dutch East Indian Army, KNIL. Membership's scope was, in the course of time, widened to all KNIL troops. Very good copy.

MEER, H.J. VAN DER Op de Waterscheiding. Schetsen van een Theeplanter in de 'Kentering der Tijden' 1906-1956. 2e herz.druk (2nd. revised edn.).
Den Haag, The Author, 1993 sm.8°. orig. pict. limp glossy wrs. 304pp. text-ills. after photographs (author's collection).
Recollections of a tea-planter on the smaller tea-estates West-Java (Pasundan), incl. the japanese occupation of colonial Indonesia, his stay in varyous japanese camps & the so-called Merdeka-period (1945-1950). Privately published. MINT copy.

MEES, C.A. Verkorte Maleische Spraakkunst. [Derde druk;Third edition].
Rotterdam, Nationale Uitgeverij, [circa], 1947 Small 8°., original printed wrappers, stapled. 50pp. 4 black/white plates on 2 leaves, full-page sketch-map of Indonesia, register. Nicely designed coloured ex-libris pasted at lower right corner of ti.-p. This third edition NOT called-for in Library Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV.
According to his preface author states that this grammar popular Malay is an excerpt of his pre-war Grammar. Published on behalf of dutch troops leaving for Indonesia during the dutch-indonesian armed dispute 1945-1950. Good copy. (small tear at foot of outer front joint skilfully restored).

MEIJER RANNEFT, J.W., Het land dat verdween. Uitwerking van een rede over Indië in de laatste vijftig jaar.
Maastricht, 1949 Hfcloth, 88pp. KLOOSTER, 3160.
Development and change in the relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia, period c. 1900-c. 1948, incl. extensive notes on the dutch-indonesian dispute 1945-1949.

MERDEKA - "Nederlandse Troepen hebben een Actie ingezet...".
Amsterdam, Nieuwe Amsterdamsche Courant/Algemeen Handelsblad, Zondag 19 December, 1948 2°. (newspaper-size, quadruple folded ). 1 leave (printed recto/verso), situation-map depict. the war-theatre.
Special-issue of this dutch Newspaper, issued Sunday 19 December, 1948, announcing the 2nd. socalled dutch "police-action" agains the Republic of Indonesia, seat: Djocjakarta, in the course of the dutch-indonesian [armed] conflict. Incl. national & international reactions. Very well preserved. Scarce.

MERDEKA - 5-3 8 R.I. - Eggenkamp. Does. v.d. El. Wolff. De Kraker. Wij zullen Jullie noot vergeten. Tjiwidej [Java] 22-23 Aug. 1947.
S.I., s.n., 1947 An original black/white photograph, 14x10cm., bearing five portraits of dutch troops with their names printed at tail, serving in 5-3-8 R[eg.] I[nf.], killed during the first dutch military action (so-called "Police action") against the Indonesian Republic, at Tjiwidej, Java, 22-23 Aug. 1947.
An "In Memoriam" to five dutch soldiers killed on Java, during the first military action against the Indonesian Republic. A moving piece of memorabilia. Good copy. (light crack to lower right corner of photograph).

MERDEKA - AGITPROP - Het Politieke Gebeuren rondom de Repoeblik Indonesia. Overzicht der Ontwikkeling sedert den oorlog met Japan.
Batavia, Rijksvoorlichtings Dienst, 1947 Text- & plate-vol., 2 vols. Small folio, printed wraps., (106)pp. of cyclostyle, full-p. sketch-map, with legenda. Plate-vol. with numerous ills. on 38pp, with extensive captions, incl. some facsims. of 'authentic' documents (japanese idendity-cards issued to the 'republicans', letters, &c...). extensive chronology of events at end. Stapled.
Chronolog. review of the political events around the formation of the "Repoelik Indonesia", 15 August 1945 - 21 Juli 1947, the previous alledged 'collaboration' of Sukarno c.s. with the Japanese military administration, incl. their influence on the events shortly after the surrender, the dutch-indonesian negotiations up till 21 July 1947, the violations by the R.I. of agreements (continuing army & guerilla-activities), the 1st so-called dutch 'Police-action' against the R.I.and the political aftermath after 21 July 1947. The plate-volume is a characteristic piece of dutch counter-propaganda: pictures are shown of the formation of the "Pemoeda", japanese idendity-cards issued to 'republicans', pictures of the so-called "Bamboe Roentjing" with japanese officers training members, republican propaganda, the terror of the republican army against their own civilians (on Madura & Java), and last (but not least) the benefits of the durch army towards the 'starving' & 'terrorized' indonesian civilians, in areas clerared from the 'pelopor'. An interesting piece of dutch political porpaganda, being an attempt to discredit the credibility of the leaders of the new Indonesian Republic. Scarce. Good copy. (staples somewh. rusty).

MERDEKA - B.M. DIAH, Polemik dan HR. Merdeka.
Djakarta, Merdeka Press, nd.[c. 1965]. sm.8°. orig. col. wraps. 217pp. some caricatural plates.
Anti-P.K.I. publication. (somewh. dog-eared).

MERDEKA - BOS, A.D., Kabbelende Golven.[a diary].
S.L., The Auithor, 1945-1946. sm.8°. orig.clothbacked boards. 17 leaves of Ms., press-clippings, and some small original photographs, for the greater part recto/verso, being the personal 'diary' (more a note-book) as kept by Lieutenant A.D. Bos, I. 3. R.I.(1st Regiment, third Batallion Regiment Infantry), November 1945-March 1946. Incl. a copy of a fare-well cable to I-3-R.I., dated 25 November 1945, 21 printed lines, signed (in print) Bernhard, Prins der Nederlanden.
Lieutenant Bos received his military training in Great Britain, and left for Indonesia 25th November 1945. He served on Java during the dutch-indonesian dispute. His, partly illustrated, note-book runs up till the first so-called police-action, march 1946. Well preserved. Scarce.

MERDEKA - DE OPDRACHT, De Opdracht. Tijdschrift gewijd aan het nieuwe Indië, nr. 16-September 1945. Orig. issue.
S.L. ['s=Gravenhage], s.n.,, 1945 small folio, stapled. 18pp. printed in 3 collumns. With a portrait of A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenburgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of dutch colonial Indonesia, table of contents. WINKEL, 596.
Contains 17 articles by various contributors, with as theme the liberation of dutch colonial Indonesia from the japanese occupation, incl. an article on V.J.-Day at Panama and on Aruba (dutch territory of the West-Indies) and an article on dutch reformed missionaries during the occupation by K.J. Brouwer. An odd issue of this dutch language monthly, for the greater part dealing with the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1950. Together 46 issues published, August 1944-February 1947, of which Nrs. 1-8 have been illegally published under the german nazi-occupation of the Netherlands. Very well preserved. (centre-folded, not disturbung however).

MERDEKA - DE OPDRACHT, De Opdracht. Tijdschrift gewijd aan het nieuwe Indië, nr. 17-October 1945. Orig. issue.
S.L. ['s=Gravenhage], s.n.,, 1945 small folio, stapled. 16pp. printed in double collumns. With 2 portraits: of B.J.O. Schrieke and H.E. J.H.A. Logeman, the then minister of colonial affairs, two other illustrations, table of contents, some advertism. WINKEL, 596.
Contains 15 articles by various contributors on the political situation in dutch colonial indonesia, and two orbituaries for B.J.O. Schrieke (with a portrait) and for"Pa" Van der Steur (with a group-portrait of some of his orphan-boys). An odd issue of this dutch language monthly, for the greater part dealing with the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1950. Together 46 issues published, August 1944-February 1947, of which Nrs. 1-8 have been illegally published under the german nazi-occupation of the Netherlands. Very well preserved. (centre-folded, not disturbung however).

MERDEKA - DE VRIJE PERS - De Vrije Pers, vol. I-no. 1. [Verschijn dagelijks].
Soerabaia, "De Vrije Pers", dinsdag 31 augustus, 1948 Folio, four-folded. [4]pp. With illustrations, incl. portraits and a large family-tree of the Royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. NOT called-for in HARSKAMP (calls for a similar title, no. 1111!), NOT called for in Library Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV, see note below).
FIRST issue, first volume, dated tuesday 31 august 1948, of this dutch colonial indonesian daily. Issue marked in print in upper rigt corner of upper margin:"Ter Introductie" (introductory number). Lead article on front page deals with the golden jubilee of H.M. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 1898-1948, including a large portrait of the Queen, flanked by two smaller portraits of her son-in-law Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands and his consort H.R.H. Princess Juliana of Orange-Nassau. Other articles deal with news concerning the political situation in dutch colonial Indonesia during the dutch-indonesian dispute. This first issue NOT called-for in holdings of Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV (erreneously listing 1949 instead of 1948 as First volume number 1). Well preserved. Rare.

MERDEKA - DEMOBILIZATION, De nieuwe demobilisatievoorzieningen in een Notedop. (voor militairen van de Koninklijke Landmacht, die werkelijke dienst in Nederlandsch-Indië hebben verricht)(text on upper wrap.).
Den Haag, 1948 sm. 8°. orig. wraps. 136pp.
The revised demobilization-provisions for dutch troops, that have served in Indonesia during the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1949. Scarce.

MERDEKA - DUTCH NEWSPAPER ISSUE, De Oorlog in het Verre Oosten. In: "De Opdracht, Tijdschrift gewijd aan het nieuwe Indië, Vrijdag 5 Juli 1945; Informatienummer, nummer 5".
Den Haag, 1945 Small folio, [4]pp. of text, some text-ills.
Front-p. article deals with the continuing war in Southeast Asia against Japan, the dutch expeditionary force in the Far East, the installation of the new minister of colonies J.H.A. Logemannl, an article on dutch marines in Asia, a short article by a dutch NICA-officer posted on dutch New Guinea, a.o. artt. Very interesting. Well preserved. (papers somewh. yellowing, marginal small tear on centre-fold, skilfully restored).

MERDEKA - DUTCH NEWSPAPER, De Rede van Dr. v. Mook. In: "Het Inzicht, Weekblad, 1e jaargang nummer 19, 25 Mei 1946".
Djakarta, Het Inzicht, 25 Mei, 1946 Folio (centre-folded), 4pp.
Lead article on front-p. discusses the famous Van Mook Speech. Other artt. supply news on the general & political situation in Indonesia. Mint copy. Rare.