Van Wonen en Bewonen, Van Bouwen, Huis en Erf.
Tjandi-Samarang: Privately published not for sale, 1913. 1st Edition. Stock ID #175664 Semarang grew rapidly during the nineteenth century and became an incorporated municipality in the twentieth. Its city council brought Western standards to much of the city but its efforts to improve the kampungs met with little success. Kampung improvement remained a local issue removed from national political and social movements. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175664.
109 photographic reproductions and many sketch maps, plans and drawings, 155pp. Original limp wrappers with 2 photographs pasted down on the front cover. Some foxing to covers and prelims but internally a clean and firm copy of a work that was privately published and one of the earliest publications by the well known Dutch writer and traveller H.F. Tillema. 24.5 x 31.5cm.
Loosely inserted is a four page address with photographs highlighting to the members of the council, the contrast between "a lovely old-fashioned indian house in samarang high up with spacious and airy rooms" and "some miserable hovels in one of the kampongs in Samarang", written by H. Uden Masman, 's Gravenhage 1913. Text in Dutch.
Hendrik Tillema (1870-1952) was a well-known Dutch writer and traveller who devoted much of his distinguished career as a hygienist to the study of the then Netherlands East Indies. Tillema's aim in writing this account was to arouse interest in improving the wretched housing conditions for the residents of Samarang - Indonesia at this time. The need for better hygene and sanitary conditions is highlighted with photographs , sketch drawings and plans. 'The act of improvement requires the support of many people, architects must learn to build tropical houses and the tenants must learn to value them.'
Price: $250.00 AU