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MAATEN, K. van der. Snouck Hurgronje en de Atjeh oorlog. Leiden, Oostersch Instituut, 1948. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original half cloth. With 2 folding maps. (12),296; (4),186 pp. From July 1891 to February 1892 Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) stayed in the region of Aceh to carry out research on the influence of Islam on the life and minds of the Acehnese people. - (Waterstained). [Boeknr.: 13278 ]

€ 225,00

MARSDEN, William. The history of Sumatra. London, 1811. Reprint of the third edition introduced by John Bastin. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1966. 4to. Cloth. With folding map and 27 plates. X,VIII,479,(8) pp. The first important monograph on Sumatra, including a chapter on Nias and also the first text in English devoted to the island. [Boeknr.: 9336 ]

€ 65,00

MARSDEN, William. The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island. 3rd edition, with corrections, additions. London, J. M'Creery, 1811. 4to. Later blue buckram (spine discoloured). With large folding engraved map and engraved plate of the Rajang, Batta, Lampoon alphabets. VIII,479,(9) pp. Third and best edition; first published in London in 1783; with the bookplate of Arthur Hereward Millard. - 'This book gave Marsden a reputation that still holds today. He was an orientalist, in the service of the East India Company (VOC), and resided in Sumatra in 1771-79. He studied everything that came under his notice, including the difficult Sumatran tongue'' (Cox I, p.300). His book is the first important monograph on Sumatra, including a chapter on Nias and also the first text in English devoted to the island. - (Without the atlas as usual). Wellan-Helfrich D 238; Howgego M55; Hill 1093. [Boeknr.: 5622 ]

€ 975,00

MEIJER, H. De Deli Spoorweg Maatschappij. Driekwart eeuw koloniaal spoor. Met medewerking van F.A.J. Heckler. Zutphen, De Walburg Pers, 1987. Large 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous photographic illustrations. 152 pp. Deli Railway Company was a private railway company that operated near the east coast of Sumatra around Deli (now Medan). The Deli Company established itself as a tobacco plantation and then expanded into tea, rubber and timber products. [Boeknr.: 13555 ]

€ 25,00

MEISTER-LAUTH, K. Aus dem Teutonenlager der Ostküste Sumatras. Medan, Medansche Drukkerij, 1917. Original cloth. With drawings by Fritz Schlechter. 100 pp. Collection of poems with drawings. - Rare. [Boeknr.: 34956 ]

€ 45,00

MOLLEMA, J.C. De ontwikkeling van het eiland Billiton en van de Billiton-Maatschappij. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1922. Half cloth. With folding coloured map and 47 photographic illustrations. XII,196 pp. [Boeknr.: 6625 ]

€ 20,00

(MORESCO, Maurits). Deli Batavia Maatschappij 1875-1925. Amsterdam, L. van Leer & Co.,1925. Folio. Cloth gilt. With many photographic plates. 80 pp. Memorial volume commemorating the first 50 years (1875 - 1925) of the tobacco plantation Deli-Batavia Maatschappij established by the Dutch in Sumatra. [Boeknr.: 34610 ]

€ 45,00

NABABAN, P.W.J. A grammar of Toba-Batak. Canberra, The Australian National University, 1981. 4to. Wrappers. XXIV,146,15 pp. - (Pacific Linguistics). [Boeknr.: 30265 ]

€ 65,00

NABER, Johanna Wilhelmina Antoinette. Onbetreden paden van ons koloniaal verleden 1816-1873. Naar nog onuitgegeven familie-papieren Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1938. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 11 plates. 173 pp. Patria. - The first part contains the memoirs of Nicolette Perronneau van Leyden (1808-1870). She arrived in Indonesia when she was 9 years old in 1817 and left 3 years later. After 40 years she wrote Herinneringen uit Indiën about her stay in Indonesia as a child. The second part contains the family correspondence of Christiaan Sepp, 1868-1973, seconded to the KNIL in 1868-1873 and died in the first Aceh expedition. [Boeknr.: 11688 ]

€ 20,00

NIAS. NIAS. TRIBAL TREASURES. Cosmic reflections in stone wood and gold. Delft, Nusantara, (1990). 8vo. Wrappers. With 266 illustrations (several in colours). 327 pp. Fine illustrated catalogue of an exhibition that has been organized for the first time about Nias. [Boeknr.: 256 ]

€ 65,00

(NICLOU, H.A.A.). Open brieven aan G(eorge) F(rederik) W(illem) Borel, Kapitein der Artillerie .. naar aanleiding van zijn boek: Onze vestiging in Atjeh. Samarang, De Groot, Kolff & Co., 1879.Original printed green wrappers. With folding map. IV,246,(2) pp. Commentary on a book by Borel on the Dutch presence in Aceh, Sumatra. - Cat. KITLV p.23. [Boeknr.: 31598 ]

€ 150,00

NIESSEN, Sandra A. Batak cloth and clothing. A dynamic Indonesian tradition. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pictorial boards. With many photographic illustrations (several in colours) of the Batak of North Sumatra. XI,136 pp. [Boeknr.: 36556 ]

€ 45,00

NIJGH, Henricus. Oorlog in Atjeh. Het journaal van luitenant-ter-zee Henricus Nijgh, 1873-1874. Bezorgd en ingeleid door H. Stapelkamp. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2010. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 216 pp. . Linschoten-Vereeniging CIX. - Journal of a naval officer on the Acheh war in Indonesia. [Boeknr.: 32177 ]

€ 25,00

OORT, Pieter van. Kunstenaar op Sumatra. De reisdagboeken en natuurtekeningen van Pieter van Oort (1825-1833). Bezorgd en ingeleid door Andreas Weber en Sylvia van Zanen. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2021. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With llustrations (several in colours). 285 pp. Linschoten Vereeniging CXX. - Pieter van Oort was one of the most talented Dutch draftsmen of animals and plants of his time. On behalf of King Willem I, he left for the Indies in 1825 to record the flora and fauna there for the Natural History Committee. The book contains the full transcript of his travel diaries. [Boeknr.: 36533 ]

€ 40,00

POSTEL-COSTER, E. Het omheinde kweekbed. Machtsverhoudingen in de Minangkabause faimilieroman. (No pl.), 1985. Wrappers. With plate. (10),233 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 29979 ]

€ 35,00

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