Author: ZONNEVELD, PETER VAN,
Title: Het stempel van Batavia. [Tweede druk; Second edition].
Description: S.I., Kwadraat/Candide, 1991. Small 8°. Blank original thin stiff wrappers, dustjacket designed by Rinke Doornekamp. 29pp. Colophon. NOT called-for in Royal Dutch Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology KITLV. Shrt dutch language literary story in which author draws a picture of european life and society on Java, Dutch East Indies, in the early 1900s, after pieces of authentic information by an old dutch lady Caroline Wijnands van Haeften of her own life. Originally published as a New Year's gift by publisher. Very fine copy.

Keywords: literature story recollections postmarked batavia history society european colonialism culture indonesia southeastasia java buur