Author: BREDA DE HAAN, J. VAN - W.R. TROMP DE HAAS, H.J. WIGMAN (EDS.)(ET. AL.),
Title: Teysmannia. Vol. 5.
Description: Batavia, Kolff, 1894. Thick 8°. recently clothbacked lettered boards. title on front boards. 776pp. Num. tables/statistics/graphs in text and full-p., plates, text-ills. Contains num. original scientific essays on the agro-biology of dutch colonial Indonesia: reporting results of experimental stations, own private research, incl. comparative results of surrounding asian countries as Ceylon & Japan, British India, pests- and pestcontrol, experiments with improvement of seeds, plants, genera, &c. concerning (a.o.) tobacco, nutritients, tea, rubber, cassave, timber, chinchona, coffee, sugarcane..Amongst the contributors we find (a.o.), H.J. Wigman, W.R. Tromp de Haas, C.J.W. Heijl, J. van Breda de Haan, J. Roqué, W.G. Boorsma, E.C. Julius Mohr,..Good copy of an odd volume, but complete in itselves. (both inner joints reinforced with a recent cloth strip)

Keywords: agro biology indonesian crops agriculture essays science improvement experiments colonialism indonesia southeast asia 19thc. teysmannia