CABATON, A., Java, Sumatra, and the other Islands of the Dutch East Indies. Translated [from the original french edn.] and with a preface by Bernard Miall. First edn. (thus).
London-Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911 thick 8°. Orig. cloth, title in gilt on front boards and spine. Hftitle (verso blank). (xvi), 370pp. Frontispiece, 31 plates, all after photographs, extensive footnotes, rather large extending coloured map with legenda of the indonesian archipelago and lower Burma, index, [4]pp. of partly illustrated advertism. at very end, of which of maritime nature (shipping-lines).
An extensive multi-diciplinary description of dutch colonial Indonesia in the first decade of the 20th century, for the greater part dealing with Java (p. 1-257) and the so-called "Buitenbezittingen" or outer Provinces: Sumatra (incl. Rhiouw- & Lingga Archipelago), Celebes, Borneo...(:) history and geography, administrative divisions, civil administration, europeans, the Oriental foreign element: Arabs, Japanese & Chinese, agriculture, forests, mines and industry, political and economic condition of Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Good uncut copy. (some occasional light marginal foxing throughout, light wear to spine-ends).