Author: HILGERS, TH. J.A.,
Title: De avonturen van Paul Kreutzer: een verhaal uit het Indische krijgsleven. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Deventer, Kluwer & Co., [..], 1896. sm. 8°. Original lithographed coloured and illustrated cloth with gilded cover title, gilded title on spine. 162pp. Llithographed coloured frontispiece, 4 captioned coloured lithographed plates and a full-p. terrain sketch-map of the military operations against Edi, Northern Aceh, Sumatra. BUUR, I.J., 0160. Dutch language boy's adventure story based on historic facts, an episode from the life of a young and destitute Berlin citizen, recruited for the Royal Dutch East Indies Army KNIL, the sea voyage to Java, barrack life, training and drilling, promotion to corporal, his participation in the military expedition against Edi during the Aceh war, stay and description of the big military hospital at Lota Radja (Banda Aceh). Very interesting. A second edition was published in 1900 in which 1 lithograph was suppressed. Good to very good copy in nice original publ. cloth. Scarce.

Keywords: juvenalia novel history army militaria expedition edi atjeh aceh militaria hospital kota radja banda aceh adventure colonialism indonesia southeastasia buur nineteenthcentury 19thc.