Author: MANOKWARI FEASABILITY REPORT -
Title: Openlegging van het Achterland van Manokwari. Rapport betreffende het Onderzoek ingesteld door een Commissie van deskundigen in opdracht van de Transmigratie-Raad. [Title on front boards]. Original edition.
Description: S.I., s.n., [circa], 1949. Text-volume and original Wall-map. Two parts. Textvolume: small stout 4°. Original clothbacked printed boards, sketch map on front boards with title. 248; 70pp. (appendix), of cyclostyled text (versos blank). 16 origiginal field photographs, of which one full-page, rest almost half-page with dutch language text pasted at tails in original typo-script, 12 full-page sketch-maps, all with keys/legenda of which 5 handcoloured, many tables in text, incl. calculations, 70pp. appendix being a draft budget, table of contents. WITH the original, partly handcoloured and handdrawn Wall-map to the study: Werkkaart voor de kolonisatie te Manokwari en naaste omgeving (Schetskaart) 1: 20.000, 15 februari 1949. Bijgewerkt door Hoofdkantoor T en E. Bat. Large original Wall-map betwee wooden poles, dissected on linen, 1600x100cm. Title printed at upper right corner of map, very extensive legenda in original tupo-script, incl. updates pasted at tail of map. NOT called-for in holdings of Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV., neither in any other official dutch library. Original multidisciplinary feasability study, prepared by a commission of dutch experts, being a vast enquiry into the colonization of Manokwari hinterland and surroundings, former dutch Territory of New Guinea. Besides a number of [planned] crop production and exports this report holds a 70pp. draft budget as an appendix. Compiled by command of the [dutch colonial] Transmigration Board. Although other pre- second world war studies have been published with as subject matter the colonization and transmigration to the dutch territory of New Guinea, this report supersedes all previous ones, whilst it was clearly understood by the dutch ministry of colonial affairs that Indonesian sovereignty was irrevocable. Transmigration, colonization and economic development of New Guinea thus became a priority. A very important report, WITH the original Wall-map. Very good copy. Rare.

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