Author: OEGEMA, J.J.G.,
Title: De Stoomtractie op Java en Sumatra. First edn.
Description: Deventer-Antwerpen, Kluwer, 1982. sm. 4°. Orig. glossy boards, designed by Fred Helfrich, coloured illustration on front boars after a photograph by M. Ockeloen. 223pp. Num. text-ills. after old photographs, num. profiles of railroads, review sketch-map of Indonesian railroads, num. diagrams, in text, full-page and double-page of steam-locomotives and carriages, tables in text, list of literature consulted, extensive lists of: rail- and tramway companies, railroads, railway-stations of which name has been changed after 1950, number of constructed railways, locomotive-parks, locomotives in service with DKA/PNK, locomotive factories, photocredits, errata-leaf (verso blank) loosely inserted. Describes in minute detail the history, development, construction, &c. of steam-traction on colonial Java and Sumatra. Very good copy.

Keywords: railroads railway tramway steam traction locomotive transport java sumatra colonialism indonesia southeast asia