Author: BOSSE, J. VAN,
Title: Eenige beschouwingen omtrent de oorzaken van den achteruitgang van de Koffiecultuur ter Sumatra's Westkust benevens eenige opmerkingen omtrent de economische en politiek toestanden aldaar. Eerste gedeelte (part 1) (All publ.). Orig. edn.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1895. large 8°. Orig. printed wraps. 128pp. Footnotes, many tables in text, and full-page, full-p. statistics on the production of coffee at very end. Ample detailed report on the decline of coffee-production at Westcoast Sumatra, 1800-1894, incl. remarks on the general economic and political situation at Westcoast Sumatra. Vol. I only, all published. (viz. Nijhoff publ. catalogue, p. 19 & 93). Author's presentation copy, printed in upper right margin of front cover. Good copy, uncut. (some light occas. dog-earing, lower right corner of page 83 clipped, no text-loss, name of previous owner in ink, L. Bienfait, in upper right corner of ti.-p.).

Keywords: sumatra westcoast agriculture coffee economics economy politics decline history colonialism indonesia southeast asia 19thc.