Richtlijnen voor Kolonisatie met Javanen. Memorie van Overgave dd. 14 Juni 1937. [Author's copy - incl. maps by the author, 28 orig. photographs, ephemera, genealogy of the Rookmaker family and other documents].

Rookmaker, H.R. Richtlijnen voor Kolonisatie met Javanen. Memorie van Overgave dd. 14 Juni 1937. [Author's copy - incl. maps by the author, 28 orig. photographs, ephemera, genealogy of the Rookmaker family and other documents].Tandjongkarang, Indonesia, 1937. (6), 89 Lvs. cyclostyled on one side. Folio. ca. 21 x 30 cm. With 7 full-page and folding cyclostyled maps, drawn by the author and coloured by hand, and two series of original photographs, one series of 11 photographs illustrating the text and the other series of 17 photographs taken from the propaganda movie made on the subject. Contemp. half cloth, with brown packing paper wrappers, with printed title-label. - [ADDED: notes on the genealogy of the Rookmaker family; carbon copies of the article "De Javanen-Kolonisatie in de Lampongsche Districten"; speeches, notes and clippings from Indonesian newspapers.]

Unique copy. Course on the colonization of the Javanese people, written by Henderik Roelof Rookmaaker (Batavia 1887-1945 The Hague), 'Resident van de Lampongse Districten' from June 1933 to June 1937. It was offered to the Dutch rulers of Indonesia at his retirement. The maps show colonization regions, the Lampong region, a roadmap of the district, and a large folding map of the Lampong district with extensive statistics of ca. 74 x 55 cm. The original photographs show Javanese people at work, Javanese propagandists of the colonization, a Javanese dance, etc. Other additions are: a identity card for the colonist, a registration state to be filled in by the Dutch director of the colony, advice for the colonist printed parallel in three languages, a postcard and a postal stamp with the logo of the colonization, and leaves with statistics on the colonists, the rubber and coffee trees, the production, etc. Loosely inserted are: carbon copies of a type-written letter of 2 folio lvs. to the Dutch Governor General in Buitenzorg, dated June 18, 1937, in which Rookmaker offers two copies of his "Richtlijnen"; a type-written letter of one folio leaf to the editor of "Koloniale Studien", together with the carbon copies of the article he offers on the subject, called: "De Javanen-Kolonisatie in de Lampongsche Districten", and covering 23 folio lvs. Also added the carbon copies of 2 folio lvs. of a type-written speech which Rookmaker held on the occasion of the Queen's birthday on August 31, 1935; 2 Clippings from Indonesian newspapers on Rookmaker's farewell speech; and several folio lvs. with notes on the genealogy of the Rookmaker family. – Provenance: from the Rookmaker family. - Rare, we only found an ordinary copy of the 'Richtlijnen voor Kolonisatie met Javanen' in the Dutch National Archive.