Author: FOKKENS, F.,
Title: The great cultures of the Isle of Java. Preface by Prof. Treub. Orig. edn.
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1910. Small 4°, orig. stiff lettered wraps., (vii), 48pp., frontisp., 30 plates with text in english, tables in text and at end of each chapter, covering roughly the period 1895-1907, footnotes. Text printed within a single typographical line-border. A promotional overview of the preponderating economical importance appertaining to the agriculture of Java. The work gives an idea of the remarkable development of agriculture on Java, incl. exports of Rice, Coffee, Sugar, Peruvian bark, Tobacco, Tea, Indigo. Fine copy, partly unopened.

Keywords: agriculture promotion java rice coffee indigo tobacco tea economy colonialism indonesia southeastasia