Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1971. Introduction by Nicholas Tarling. 4 folding charts, colour plates, xxiii + 424pp, inscription front free endpaper, dustjacket showing some light wear, spine of dustjacket faded. Good copy. John Anderson was a member of the East India Company's Service in Penang in 1823. Part of... More about Mission to The East Coast of Sumatra in 1823
New Haven. Yale Uni. Press. 1991. Maps, black and white illustrations, xiv + 298pp, appendix, bibliography, indeces, an excellent hardback copy in dustjacket. The twentieth century history of the Gayo people, a Muslim people numbering about 200,000, who live in the highlands of northern Sumatra. The effects of the centralisation... More about Sumatran Politics and Poetics. Gayo History, 1900-1989
Fort Lauderdale. Verlag breitenbach Publishers. 1982. Map, black and white frontispiece, vi + 265pp, notes, appendices, glossary, bibliography, ownership stamp of Ian Proudfoot front free-endpaper, a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 133468). More about Economic and Social Change among the Simalungun Batak of North Sumatra
Batavia. N.V.Uitgeversmaatschappij. 1915. In Dutch. Folding map, vi + 193pp, paper wrappers worn, lightly foxed throughout, short closed tear map, still sound. Sections include: Nota betreffende de afdeeling Koerintji; De Minangkabausche nagari. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 123388). More about Mededeelingen Encyclopaedische Bureau. VIII
New Haven. Yale Uni. Press. 1984. Map, illustrations, xiv + 175pp, glossary, bibliography, index, foxed edges, dustjacket extremities little rubbed, a good hardback copy. This book examines the Mingangkabau of West Sumatra and their keeness to explain and interprete their own customs and etiquette. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159331). More about Manners and Meaning in West Sumatra. The Social Context of Consciousness
Canberra. Australian National University. 1964. Maps, illustrations, 92pp, minor browning wrappers, foxed upper edge and occasionally throughout, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159321). More about Folk Literature of South Sumatra. Redjang Ka-Ga-Nga Texts
Ithaca. Cornell Uni. Press. 1982. Maps, 267pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket spine lightly sunned, neat signature front free endpaper, a very good hardback copy. This book is an account of change and continuity in a society, discussing topics such as family, urbanisation and the question of ethnic identity. (When referring to... More about Matriliny and Migration. Evolving Minangkabau Traditions in Indonesia
Ann Arbor. Uni. of Michigan Press. 1993. ix + 257pp, references, index, as new in dustjacket. This book tells the story of the first 15 years of the Dutch Reformed Mission among the Karo of North Sumatra. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 39851). More about The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission. The Karo Field
Amsterdam. Meulenhoff. 1908. Folding map, folding tables at rear, black and white photographic plates, original black and white photographic plates. Some light foxing a little heavier at first and last leaves. Text in Dutch. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 118019). More about Bijdrage tot de Anthropologie der Menangkabau-Maleirs
Sumatra. Verlag Kohler. Six pencil drawings, 130pp, foxed through, particularly first and last leaves, and edges, hinges splitting, joints cracked and spine re-glued, thick pictorial card covers little browned. Text in German. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 77519). More about Durian. Kinder Heisser Zonen von Erna Lachmann
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1966. Introduction by John Bastin. Large folding map of Sumatra at rear, 27 plates including portrait frontispiece A Malay native of Bencoolen with tissue guard, many plants and animals, two of Sumatran weapons and a further two each of views and dwellings, viii + 479pp... More about The History of Sumatra
Medan. Firma Hasmar. 1975. Black and white illustrations, 832pp, heavy browning and foxing to page edges and lower cover, paperback covers little worn, a sound copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 158530). More about Sejarah Kebudayaan Sumatera
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1981. Maps, black and white illustrations, ix + 255pp, notes, cited works, index, foxing edges and first and last leaves, dustjacket spine little sunned, a good hardback copy. Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture, 1. Sijobang is a form of popular entertainment in the area... More about Sijobang: Sung Narrative Poetry of West Sumatra
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1979. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 288pp., appendix, bibliography, index, hardback in dustjacket. A very good copy. In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served... More about The Blood of the People. Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1969. Maps, black and white illustrations, xii + 333pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, spine faded and creased, paperback covers rubbed, a good copy. The causes of the protracted and bitter war in fought in Aceh from 1873 on are examined in this important work. (When... More about The Contest for North Sumatra. Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain 1858-1898
Zurich. Buchdruckerei der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung. 1936. Black and white photographic illustrations, 127pp, pencilled notes throughout, original wrappers little browned and marked, spine repaired causing it to open rather stiffly. A sound secondhand copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160511). More about Jubiläums-Schrift des Schweizer Verein Deli-Sumatra. Zum fünfzigjährigen Bestehen 1886- 1936
Leiden. Brill. 1964. Reprint. With contributions by C. von Fuhrer-Haimendorf and G.L. Tichelman. Black and white photographic plates, xi + 228pp, edges and covers browned and foxed, otherwise a good hardback copy. First published in 1939 this work describes the lost civilizations of Sumatra. Includes discussion of the Hindu antiquities... More about Forgotten Kingdoms in Sumatra
The Hague. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal. 1958. Foldout map endpaper, 87 pp, bibliography, bookseller's label front paste down, spine minor damage, very good in paperback. Bibliographical Series No. 3. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151764). More about Critical Survey of Studies on the Anthropology of Nias, Mentawei and Enggano
Singapore. Oxford University Press. 1979. Second Reprint. Translated by Marion Saunders with an introduction by Anthony Reid. xv + 352pp, light foxing page edges with trifle rubbed covers, a good paperback copy. Trans., first published in English in 1937. A semi-autobiographical account of a planter's life in Sumatra during the... More about Tropic Fever. The Adventures of a Planter in Sumatra
's-Gravenhage. Martinus Nijhoff. 1899. xxiv + 227pp, bound in plain cloth covered boards which have been lettered by hand on both the spine and the upper cover, modern brown endpapers. Closed tear half title repaired with tape, two neat stamps title page and upper corner of one leaf, some pencilling... More about Minangkabausche Spraakkunst
The Hague. Nijhoff. 1964. Preface by J. Keuning. Folding map, xv + 461pp, index, appendices, spine slightly sunned, minor marks to covers, gilt lettered spine and upper cover, a very good copy. Originally written in Dutch and first published in 1933, this book became one of the outstanding works of... More about The Social Organisation and Customary Law of the Toba-Batak of Northern Sumatra
Canterbury. Uni of Kent. 1984. Maps, x + 63pp, paper wrappers, quarto. Minor extremities wear, small faint stain first few leaves, in good condition. Centre of South-East Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 3. Sections include: Dutch Expansion at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Kerinci; and Nods... More about Kerinci. Two Historical Studies
