Author: COLONIAL INDONESIAN TIMBER CALCULATIONS -
Title: Staat van den Kubieken inhoud van Kantrecht beslagen houtwerken, van 1 tot en met 9-3/4 ellen lengte en 10/10 tot en met 60/60 Nederlandsche Duimen breddte en dikte. Vijfte druk (5th edn).
Description: Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1903. slim folio. Orig. clothbacked printed boards. 95pp. of tables printed in collumns. ADDED: a single-leave, folio-sized, being an example of how to calculate the cubic capacity of a beam, tog. 15 lines, incl. calculations, In Ms. in ink, in a very neat hand, signed and dated F.L. Berkhout, Hirosari, den 1 Januari 1904. AND: a Folio-sized 8-leave orig. Ms. in red and black ink, recto/verso, being a supplemt to the main work, by the same F.L. Berkhout, employee at the Java-timber estate Kedoeng Djati, his signature on front leave. Official publication, by special dutch colonial Government-decree 27th April 1902, being tables to be used by eployees anf foresters of colonial Indonesian Timber-plantations, in order to calculate the cubic capacities of timber to be logged and sold. Good copy. Scarce.

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