Author: KEPPER, G. (ED.),
Title: De oorlog tusschen Nederland en Atchin. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1874. Small 4°., [31x25.5cm], original private calfbacked cloth, title in gilt on spine, in compartments with small gilt tooled ornaments, compartments separated by gilt tooled horizontal bars. (2), 256pp., 12 tinted lithogr. plates, incl. 2 with portrs. of high-ranking dutch officers, 1 depict. Acehnese warriors, some plates lithographed after original field-photographs, 1 full-p. map depict. the dutch occupied territory of Aceh with legenda, 1 fold. map of the Sultanate Aceh, 1: 10 00.000, full-p. plan of the Craton at Koeta Radjah with legenda, 1 large folded map at the end of vol., depict. the war-theatre with an inset-plan of the fortified Missigit or Mosque, with legenda, of Koeta Radja, name-list of dutch officers as bijlage. Plates lithogr. by E.Spanier & Zn. and Emrink & Binger. Text printed in double-collumns. BASTIN/BROMMER, N. 648; Not in R/M. One of the first accounts describing dutch colonial military actions agains the Acenehse 'rebels', published a year after the first expedition against Aceh, 1873. The tinted lithographed plates are of topographical and ethnographical interest. Good copy in a nice private binding. Rare.

Keywords: atjeh atchin war rebellion uprising history sumatra militaria warfare guerilla colonialism indonesia southeast asia 19thc nineteenth century lithography