Author: DINGEMANS, L.F.(INTROD.),
Title: Gegevens over Djokjakarta 1926. A.
Description: [Djokjakarta], 1926. folio. orig. recent clothbacked imitation snake-skin wraps., title in bold black type on front wrapper, orig. photograph depict Hotel Toegoe, Djocjakarta, pasted at tail of front wrapper. 185pp. With an orig. photo portr. of His Royal Highness the Sultan of Djokjakarta Hamengkoe Boewono VIII, many other ills tipped-in on leaves (mainly 3 to a leave), other plates, numerous tables & statistics, incl. statistics on sales of Opium, licence-holders and sale-points of Opium, list of governors-general of colonial Indonesia at very end. After a short historical review numerous data (incl. lists of names) are supplied on a.o. financial & economic position, the municipal & residential-administration, watersupply, urban development, use of opium, chinese merchants and traders, agriculture, festivities in the Craton on Monday 11th January 1926, distribution of cheap chinchona amongst the indigenous population, medical mission, illegal labour by minors, illegal night-shifts by female labourers, public health, the sultanate itself, &c. The original photo-portrait of the Sultan, has been especially produced for this publication. Good copy. Rare.

Keywords: Jogyakarta