Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya – John A. Fowler (1923) (1st ed)

S$160.00

Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya – John A. Fowler (1923) (1st ed)

S$160.00

Title: Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook

Author: John A. Fowler

Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923. Part of the Department of Commerce’s Special Agents Series. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. One or two pages with small closed tears, no affecting text. Inscription to ffep. Binding tight, text very clean. With numerous black-and-white plates and two large foldout colour maps, of The Malay Archipelago and Java/Madura. 411pp., app 9.5″ by 6″.

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The US Department of Commerce’s guide to business in the Malay Archipelago, with an introduction to the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya, two large and beautiful foldout maps, and numerous statistics on commercial products, export revenues, infrastructure, natural resources, etc.

Chapters include:

Coffee (Grades of coffee, varieties, cultivation, etc)
Shipping in the Straits Settlements
Petroleum production
Mineral products and ores
Import commodities, including a market review