Author: OLIVIER JZ., J.,
Title: Tafereel van Oost-Indië. Tweede deel, Nieuwe Uitgave. [Volume 2, New Edition].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, M.M. Couvée, 1865. Small 8°. Original blue coloured publ. cloth. Large gilded decorative ofal device on front boards with in centre the word JAVA in bold gilded type, the whole within a blind stamped decorative border, richtly gilded spine. Hftitle (verso blank). Frontispiece, 3 captioned monochrome engravings on a plate, 30 captioned monochrome engravings on 10 plates featuring 19th century indonesian society sceneries and pictures of ethnic individuals and occupations, extending engraved monochrome map at rear feauring Insular Southeastasia and a separate map of Java, explanatory footnotes and references. This edition NOT called-for in holdings of Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV, nor in BUUR, IJ. Odd volume 2 (of 2, chapter 17-30) of a dutch language collection of stories by which dutch youths are informed about a wide scope of life, history, labour, exotic animals, natural history, ethnic groups, means of subsistence, volcanism and earthquakes, etc..of the dutch East Indied. Nice copy in original decorative publ. cloth.

Keywords: stories fiction information travel narration juvenalia youths children literature culture heritage legacy colonialism indonesia southeastasia nineteenthcentury 19thc