Hamerster, M. - Bijdrage Tot De Kennis Van De Afdeeling Asahan. [eerste Druk/first Edition].

Amsterdam, Oostkust van Sumatra Instituut, 1926. Orig. wrappers. 204pp. frontispiece (portrait), 4 black/white plates, tables in text and full-page, footnotes, 2 full-p. sketch-maps of the region discussed with legenda, table of contents. [Oostkust van Sumatra-Instituut, Mededeeling No. 13]. Detailed report by the then assistant-resident of Asahan district, North Sumatra, partly bordering with Malacca Strait. Extensive information is supplied on the physical geography of the district, climate and rainfall, fauna and flora, local population, civil administration, both colonial and local, justice, local customary or adat law, education in the broadest sense of the word, noth for european and local indigenous children, agriculture, forestry and other means of subsistence, crops and cropping, import-exports, expenditures, traffic, road-and rail connections, finance, municipal development, &c. Very good copy.