Author: SAVORNIN LOHMAN, A.,
Title: Smarten. First edn.
Description: Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, s.d. [..], 1900. sm. 8°. orig. vellum backed cloth, title in gilt on front boards and spine. Hftitle (verso with a poem by De Genestet). 258pp. Table of contents, with on verso publ. advert., on last unnumbered lve. NOT called for in BUUR, PD., NOT listed in collection of Royal Institute of Linguistics & Anthropology, K.I.T.L.-Leiden. Called for in Royal Dutch Library, KB. Contains four melo-dramatic stories of which the last one is partly set in the financial world of Batavia, dutch colonial Indonesia. Very good copy. Rare.

Keywords: literature stories melodrama batavia colonialism indonesia southeast asia java buur 19thc