Author: NEDERBURGH, S.C.,
Title: Opium-Smokkelhandel. Iets over een middel om zonder eenige kosten, verlies, of winstderving voor de Schatkist, en zonder eenig ander ernstig bezwaar of gevaar, den Opium-Smokkelhandel op Java en Madura zeer belangrijk te verminderen.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1889. sm. 8°. orig. printed wraps. 22pp. tabs. in text, and full-p. on [6]pp. at end. ('bijlagen'). After a financial analysis of prices of Government-licensed imported Opium for resale through legally operating Opium-dealers, author recommends lower wholesale prices for dealers, in order to increase their profits, this all in order to reduce the problem of illegal opium trafficking on Java & Madura by chinese merchants. Fine copy.Scarce.

Keywords: opium/19thc.