Reports Trade Island Java Annual by Foreign Office (3 results)

Sixteen Parliamentary reports, tables (one full page highlighted in colour), five large folding ordnance survey maps of Java (in the consecutive reports for 1907-1911), disbound in plain title wrappers, stab sewn, 31.4 x 20.7cm, speckled fore edges, separate pagination (relating to previous compilations) added in manuscript or stamped. A very good clean set. An unbroken run of reports over a lengthy period of marked development. The 1896 Report notes the opening of telephone lines and the launch of works to bring electric light and the succeeding reports quantify change across a range of commodities--including the bumper crop in 1911 of sugar, one of the staple crops. The last two reports are larger and include separate coverage of Macassar and Sumatra.…

Eleven Parliamentary Reports, tables, two large folding ordnance survey maps of Java (in the consecutive reports for 1910-1911), the first nine reports in printed blue wrappers, the final two in plain title wrappers, stab sewn, 24.4 x 15.5cm occasional toning and foxing, library stamps to the title wrapper of seven of the reports, small pagination note in ink to the title wrapper of one report and small chip from upper wrapper of one, but a good run. Sold with a de-accession letter from the University of Hull Library A long run of reports over a period of marked development: export yields of the two staple crops, sugar and coffee, more than quadrupled during the period. The final Report also including expanded coverage of Sumatra.…

Twenty Parliamentary reports, tables (one folding), five large folding ordnance survey maps of Java (in the consecutive reports for 1907-1911), the first three and final five reports in plain title wrappers, those for 1897-1907 in printed blue wrappers, stab sewn, 24.4 x 15.5cm occasional toning and foxing (mainly affecting the verso and outer margins of the maps, more pronounced in that for 1909), a single library stamp (University of Oxford) to the title wrapper of all but three of the reports. A very good set. An unbroken run of reports over a lengthy period of marked development: the first including a brief report on the satisfactory response to the Batavia Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition (with a display of of dolls in local costume for presentation to the Queen of the Netherlands), through until the final much expanded report. Export yields of the two staple crops, sugar and coffee, more than quadrupled during the period. A lucrative period for the colonial powers and their allies.…