Author: WILLER, T.J. - J.P. CORNETS DE GROOT VAN KRAAIJENBURG,
Title: Het Eiland Boeroe, zijne exploitatie en Halfoersche Instellingen. Uitgegeven met bijdragen en toelichtingen in verband met Europeesche Kolonisatie in Nederlandsch-Indië...met eene schets van Boeroe...
Description: Amsterdam, Muller, 1858. Clothbacked marbled boards, (xi) (1) (errata), 418pp., folded table, tables in text, large folded sketch-map of Buru with legenda. General description of Buru Island, based on a Government investigation of 1847 in connection with plans for improving the socio-economic conditions of the Indigenous population of the Moluccas. Geographical & historical data are followed by a survey of the Alfur society on Buru: clan (fena) organization, offices & local government, land-tenure, administration of justice & ethnic religion with related customs, such as sorcery, traditional healing, taboos, circumcision, Next a description is given of the Christian & Muslim population of Kayeli.. (Polman, Centr.Moluccas, op.cit.) Rare. (bds. somewh. shaved, corners lightly bent, in general a very good copy.)

Keywords: moluccas/buru/19thc.