Author: CLUIJSENAER, J.L.,
Title: Rapport van den Ingenieur... over den Aanleg van Spoorwegen in de Padangsche Bovenlanden.[Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: ['s-Gravenhage], Departement van Koloniën, 1878. Original publ. cloth, gilded cover title printed within a triple-barred line border, gilded decorative spine with title. (x), 150pp., many tables in text, notes, very large extending coloured lithographed terrain-map (with provisional railway track) with extensive legenda, 1: 100 000; 4 lithographed black/white sketch-maps and profiles, loose in endpocket, large gilded decorative design to lower outer panel, table of contents. Feasability study by a civil engineer of the construction of a railroad through Padang Highlands, in corder to connect the Ombilien Coal deposits with the Indian Sea, as presented to Parliament by the Dutch Colonial Office at the Hague. The railroad was finally constructed & proved to be a technical masterpiece. Fine copy. Rare. (ex-lib. stamp on fly-leaf and at tail of ti.-p.: dutch parliamentary library).

Keywords: westcoast sumatra padang highlands feasability study railway railroad construction spooweg aanleg history engineering colonialism indonesia southeast asia nineteenth century 19thc