Author: OUTER PROVINCES OF COLONIAL INDONESIA -
Title: MEDEDEELINGEN van het Bureau van de Bestuurszaken der buitenbezittingen. Bewerkt doorhet Encyclopaedisch Bureau.
Description: Weltevreden-Semarang-Soerabaia, Encyclopaedisch Bureau, 1904-, 1914. Tog. 8 vols. sm. 4°. orig. clothbacked lettered thick boards (1 vol.), recent clothbacked marbled boards, orig. wraps. bound-up (2 vols.), rest in orig. printed wraps. [5], (ii),314, [10]; 27; (ii), 65; [3], 257; (iv), 231; (vi), 239,5,10,8,13,[4],61,41; 139pp. Ills. & portrs. on many plates, many large to very large col. fold. maps, tabs. & statistics in text and full-p., errata at end of some vols, 1 pink errata-slip bound-up. Complete set. Supplies encyclopaedic information on the so-called Outer-Pronvinces (with emphasis on Sumatra), except Java and Madura, (:) history, geography, ethnography, economic development and colonial administration. The last 2 parts deal exclusively with statistics covering exports. The first aim of this vast publication was to publish in monographs, this idea however was soon abandoned as publishers & authors realized that data would be already obsolete when a monograph was published; so the Bureau decided to publish in parts. tog. 7 parts in 8 vols. have been published, seldomly found complete, especially for the parts after vol. I-2. (some ex-lib. stamps at tails of ti.-p's, ow. a good tight set).

Keywords: sumatra/borneo.outer provinces/economics