Author: BOUWMEESTER, J.C.,
Title: Jocko/teekeningen van J.Scheidel. Orig. & only edn.
Description: Zutphen, W.J. Thieme & Cie., s.d.[circa], 1888. orig.clothbacked pict.col. lithographed glazed boards, new endpapers. [1](blank), p.1 blank with large col. lithogr. illustration, recte with a col. lithogr. circular illustr., col. illustrated and ornamented ti.-p.(p.3). Tog. 32pp. Each page with a very large or smaller col. lithographed illustration, all after drawings by J. Scheidel, incl. a col. circular illustr. on verso of p.31. NOT in BUUR, I.J. SCAN AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Youth story, set on a Sugar-Estate in ducht colonial nineteenth century Indonesia, with as main character a rich dutch sugar-planter, a so-called Sugarlord, his european 'Mandoor', a number of indigenous labourers and his favourite pet a big Orang-Oetan, called Jocko, well-trained to do simple household tasks. After an announcement that planter's wife and son will soon arrive on the estate a Slamatanis given and described. In the final stage of the story the Orang-Utan saves the life of the young son of the planter from a shipwreck. Good to very good copy. Scarce. (some wear to extremities of boards, especially to corners, some damage at top left margin of lower outer boards, contents good).

Keywords: juvenile`youth story sugarlords orang oetan monkey java colonialism indonesia southeastasia 19thc.