L. Zanen - Een Roeping In Indië. Het Echtpaar Kooij-van Zeggelen In Zuid-celebes, 1905-1907. Orig. Edn.

's-Gravenhage, Museon, 1989. Small 4°., original limp wrappers, front wrapper illustrated in black/white. Stapled. 39pp. Many sepia coloured text-ills., incl. a number of portraits, after original glass negatives, list of main sources consulted, footnotes to text, concise bibliography to Marie C. Kooij-van Zeggelen. Historical research into the life and times of the dutch couple Kooij-Van Zeggelen, staying at South Celebes during the third, and last, military expedition against the Kingdom of Bone or Boni, 1905-1906. Captain H.A. Kooij, married to Marie C. van Zeggelen, took part in this expedition and was the, as a military, the civil authority of Soppeng, his wife becam a famous dutch author on dutch colonial Indonesia fr. the time, publishing children's books set on Celebes as well as books describing her life in South Celebes. Material has been collected from hitherto unexplored and forgotten sources present in the Museum's storage. Besides a general introduction author supplies extensive information on this last military expedition leading to the final submission of Bone, including information on the couple. Very interesting. Good copy.