Author: PERELAER, M.T.H. (1831-1901),
Title: Baboe Dalima. Opium Roman. Tweede druk. [second edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1890. 2 vols., small 8°. orig. qtr. clothbacked marbled boards, title in gilt on spines. Hftitles (versos blank). [1], 317; (ix), [1], 326pp. Translation of low-malay words in text in tail-margins, table of contents. BUUR, PD, 299. A classical example of a so-called Opium-novel, by a former officer of the Royal dutch colonial Army, in which author opposes the phenomenon of public sale of opium by official lease to chinese entrepreneurs, the colonial Indonesian State Monopoly on the import, sale and lease of opium, the role of the chinese illegal opium trafficking, public opium-dens. Very good copy. Rare. (rubber-stamped name of previous owner on rectos of first flyleaves, repeated on rectos of both hftitles and in upper right corner of both title-pages).

Keywords: novel literature opium trafficing monopoly chinese lease opiumkit opiumden society social life chinese trade colonialism indonesia southeast asia 19thc buur