Author: FOORE, A. (=F.J.J.A. IJZERMAN-JUNIUS, 1847-1890).
Title: De Koloniaal en zijn Overste. Een roman.Tweede druk. (2nd. edn.).
Description: 's-Gravenhage, D.A. Thieme, 1879. 2 vols. sm. 8°. orig. cloth, richly decorated front boards with title in gilt in centre, title in gilt on spine. Hftitles (versos blank). (vi), 264, 262pp. Footnotes, being translations/explanations of low-malay words and expressions. [Guldens-editie, No. 123/124]. BUUR, PD, 168 (calls for publ. of this edn.: Rotterdam, Bolle). Novel, in which author describes her first sea-voyage by mailsteamer from Holland to dutch colonial Indonesia, incl. passenger-life aboard, boredom, intrigues between dutch (white) passengers and eurasians (the so-called Indo's). With as main character a Lt.-Colonel, commanding officer of colonial troops aboard, and a common soldier, a koloniaal, who appears to be his illegitimate son. Author's first novel. Good to very good copy in orig. publ. cloth.

Keywords: literature novel mailboot mailsteamer seavoyage eurasians army colonialism travel indonesia southeast asia 19thc. buur