AARDWEG, H.P. VAN DEN, Generaal van Heutsz [de Held van Atjeh; subtitle on front wrapper]. Oorspronkelijk Jongensboek. Orig. edn.
[Helmond], [Drukkerij 'Helmond'], [....], 1941 large 8°. Orig. pict. col. front wrapper. Hftitle (verso blank), 121pp. Text-ills. after drawings by L. de Swart, table of contents, publ. list at very end. ["Nederlandse Jeugdbibliotheek"No. 113 A; Serie::"Hollandse Helden", No. 7]. BUUR, I.J., 0759.
Romanticised youth story describing youth and military career of J.B. Van Heutsz during the Aceh-war and his appointment to Governor-General of dutch colonial Indonesia. (cover at tail of spine gone over circa 5cm., some light dog-earing, all in all a good copy however).

ACEH - [DER KINDEREN], HET BESTUUR en de Rechtspleging in het Gouvernement van Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden. Taken fr.:"TAG, V. (1888)".
S.L. [Amsterdam], 1888 Large 8°, modern limp stitched wraps., pp.[129]-137.
Short essay on dutch colonial administration & law-enforcement in Aceh & dependencies.

ACEH - ORIGINAL PHOTOS (COMMEMMORATIVE ALBUM), Kroëng-Langsa. Ter Herinnering aan het Garnizoen [Kroëng] Langsa. 12 December 1933 - 11 Juli 1936.
[Kroëng-Langsa], [ 1933 ]. Oblong small 4°, 37x28cm. Dark brown cloth (with snake-skin patterned imprint). Title printed in gilt on upper cover: "Photographs", lead-title calligraphed in white ink inside upper cover. Double string through spine. Album containing tog. 49 orig. photos, varying in size: 15x20, 11x15, 8,5x11, 11x8 & some panoramic photos. 31,5x9 cm. with captions calligraphed in white ink at tails, mounted on tog. 24 stiff brown leaves, with tissue-guards preserved.
Photos in excellent condition & very sharp, depict. portraits of officers, subaltern officers & men of the 1st-4th Royal Constabulary Brigades at Garrisson Langsa, barracks, shooting-ranges (pistol & gun-ranges), men in training-action on the assault-range, &c...incl. a very unusual photograph (31,5x9) depict. the barrack for married women (to the soldiers), with a number of women & children posing in front. An unusual album in excellent condition.

ACEH PHOTOGRAPH (late 19th century) -
S.L., s.n. 1890 ]. A large orig. photograph, mounted on thin boards, 35x27 cm. Depict. a group of, at least 10, barracks, with atap-roofing, surrounded by barbed wire. Inside the compound a small number of soldiers in their dark-blue uniforms are visible near the fence & in front of some buildings, also some white-clad civilians are present in background. Outside the fence on a small road through the field in front some figures are present: 2 uniformed men, 8 men mainly dressed in white with white helmets, 2 posing under an umbrella & on outer left-side an Acehnese is standing, probably a servant, in the backrow 3 other white-clad figures are standing under 2 umbrellas (white coats with sarong underneath) with on outer right-side another Acehnese, on the road at right-side near the gate with barbed wire a 2-wheel cart is to be seen. Palm-trees in background with probably (almost not visible) a Watch-tower (at left-side), some more figures are present at outer right-side of compound, within the fence, but almost invisible. There is no flag-pole inside the compound to be seen. Very probably a military encampment in the interior of Aceh at the end of the 19th century. A very interesting photograph of professional nature, but faded. Curious.

ACEH STATISTICS - Gewestelijke Maandstatistieken van de Handelsbeweging der buitenbezittingen...Gouvernement Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden. January 1920.
S.L. 1920 Small 8°, wraps., 29pp. Numerous tables & statistics. Each to be sold separately at:
Commodities import-& export figures as supplied by the Statistical bureau, Dept. of Agriculture.

ACEH WAR - NEDERBURGH, S.C., De Proeve van een Onderzoek der Middelen tot Oplossing van het Atjeh-Vraagstuk, verdedigd en toegelicht.
's-Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1887 Small 8°, orig. wraps., 121pp.
Defence & elucidation to previous articles & publications, in which author advocates a radical unorhodox solution of the dutch-acehnese armed conflict: almost complete retreat of the dutch from Aceh, a very unpopular point-of-view in those days. Unopened copy.

ACEH WAR - Overzicht van de Krijgsverrichtingen in Groot-Atjeh van en met den Afval van Toekoe Djohan (Teukoe Oema).
Breda, K.M.A., 1904 sm.sq.8°. recent cloth, new endpapers. 30pp. foot-notes, short list of sources at the end. ["Oost-Indische Krijgsgeschiedenis", VI].
Concise review of the dutch military operations in Greater Aceh, incl. the so-called "treason"of Tuku Umar. (toekoe Djohan, former Panglima Prang Besar). For the use of the Royal Military Academy K.M.A. only. Rare.

ACEH WAR - TEUKU UMAR, Een Herinnering aan 24 Mei 1897.
S.I. [Amsterdam], "Het Vaderland", 1937 Large folio, four-folded. In-plano. [4]pp. portraits in text.
A special issue of a dutch daily "Het Vaderland", dated 22 May 1937, containing a number of essays commemmorating the defection of "Toekoe Djohan Pahlawan, Panglima Prang Besar", Hoeloebalang of Lepong, better known as Teuku Umar for short, originally an important acehnese Ally to the dutch, who defectet to the Acehnese 'rebels, together' with his well-armed troops on 24th of May 1897, thus causing a heavy strategic military and political blow to dutch morale. Very well preserved. Rare.

ACEH WAR COMMEMMORATED- Perang Kolonial Belanda di Acen/The Dutch colonial War in Aceh. FIRST edn.
Banda Aceh, Pusat Dokumentasi dan informasi Aceh, 1977 sm.4°. orig.glazed pict.col. boards, pict. endpapers. 268pp. of bi-lingual text (English & Bahasa Indonesia), numerous plates, ills., portrs. also with bi-lingual extensive captions, bibliography, sources, index.
A pictorial history of the Dutch colonial war against Aceh, incl. a section on Acehnese Heroines; published to mark the one hundreth anniversary of the dutch declaration of war, March 26, 1873 against Aceh. Copies of this commemmorative volume are very difficult to obtain. Very good copy.

ACEH WAR MEMORABILIA APRIL-MAY 1874 - Aan Mevrouw H. Tinkhoff-geboren den Toorn aangeboden door de Commissie ter ontvangst van de uit Atjin naar Semarang teruggekeerde Tropen. April-Mei 1874.
Semarang, s.n., 1874 Official and Original Silver plaque, 121x92mm., sculpted edges, text in dutch in in very fine and elaborate calligraphy, together 7 lines, presented by the dutch Colonial Indonesian Commission, installed upon the occasion of the return of dutch colonial troops to Semarang, Java, at the end of the first Aceh-war (1873). Plaque presented to Mrs. H. Tinkhoff - Née Den Toorn . SCAN AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
A very fine commemmorative piece executed in silver, NOT hallmarked, which was not unusual in colonial Indonesia. The plaque has originally been fixed to a small commemorative object, hence the four small screws still present at back of plaque. An interesting piece of memorabilia to the first Aceh-war in Sumatra. In excellent condition. A rarity.

ACEH WAR PHOTOGRAPHS - (N. SUMATRA) - [A collection of 4 original early 20th century photographs with as subject the Royal Netherlands Indian Army].
S.L. s.n.[a private collection], s.d.[....], 1904 Each photo in very good condition, taken by an unknown professional photographer, sized 29x21 cm. Mounted on thin cardboard. I: A group of 23 subaltern officers, members of the "Onderofficiers Vereeniging "Oranje" (Subaltern Officers Assoc. "Oranje"), wearing their black uniforms, front row sitting, backrow standing, with in background a large tree, & some Acehnese civilians. - II: A patrol of 22 mounted Officers and Men, wearing their black uniforms & helmets, placed in the centre of photograph on a grassy plain, 4 Acehnese: 1 mounted, 1 on the driving-bock of a small carriage & 2 by foot.with a tree in left corner. - III: A Patrol of 19 mounted officers & men crossing a river, accompanied by a train of 12 Acehnese foot-men, their leader sitting in a small dog-cart. - IV: A group of 12 officers & men in their black uniforms, some of them mounted, guarding a group of some 15 FEMALE ACEHNEHSE GUERILLAS in their traditional black outfit, captured during a local rebellion, with on right side a group of some 30 Achenese men, women & children as bystanders in the centre-place (Alun-Alun) of an unknown Acehnese village, all in front of the major building on wooden stands, with in left corner a partly visible large tree: a "Waringin".
An interesting an rare set of 4 photographs from a private collection of an officer, serving in Aceh during the pacification, indicated in Ms. on verso of first photograph. All photos carry short Ms. text on versos in dutch. Such photographs were neve meant for publication & are rarely found, especially for photograph IV depicting female acehnese guerillas. Photos II-IV very lightly faded, without any sign of spotting or foxing.

ACEH WAR SCENERY - Een Veldhospitaal. [a Field hospital].
Haarlem, Kleynenberg & Co., [circa], 1910 Large folio, 73x60cm. Original black/white picture in photogravure, printed on heavy limp paer, illustrating a fieldhospital in Aceh, North Sumatra, with some indigenous bearers in foreground. Title in bold black type at tail in dutch language, publ. name at lower left corner beneath illustrated area. ["Kleynenberg", plate no. 124]. Fine condition. SCAN AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Supplies a fine impression of a dutch military field-hospital in Aceh during the war.

ACEH WAR TRANSPORT, Militair Karrentransport.
Haarlem, Kleynenberg & Co., [circa], 1910 Large folio, 73x60cm. Original black/white picture in photogravure, printed on heavy limp paer, illustrating an army transport-train through open field in Aceh during the war, with four horse-drawn carts and a number of dutch troops. Dutch language title at tail of illustration, publ. name at lower left corner beneath illustrated area. ["Kleynenberg", plate no. 137]. Fine condition. SCAN AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Suppolies a fine impression of dutch army transport during the Aceh-war, Sumatra, dutch colonial Indonesia.

ALEX (=C. de Vries), Luitenant-Generaal J.B. van Heutsz. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Amsterdam, Veen, [....], 1904 Small 8°., original printed wrappers, illustration on front cover. 146pp., frontispiece, (portrait of Van Heutsz), black/white illustrations on 7 plates, folded sketch-map oa Aceh and dependencies, table of contents.
Dutch language contribution to the life and times of Lieutenant-General Van Heutsz, describing her merits as a author on Aceh politics, but foremost as Commander-in-Chief ater his return to the war theatre in 1896 and subsequent military actions against the Acehnese up till approx. 1903. Good untrimmed copy. (some light occasional foxing to margins).