Schoemaker,J.P. — Het verraad van Lombok.

's-Gravenhage, W.P.van Stockum & Zoon, 1895. 145 pp. 110 b./w. portraits of officers of the Dutch army and navy of the 1st and 2nd expedition, 3 b./w. ills & 3 fold. b./w. plts depicting 2 maps & 2 plans. Bound in a simple modern quarter cloth binding. 8vo. - The binding is worn (spine is also dam.) and has a sticker on the spine; the two maps are torn (these have been repaired with simple brown paper tape); the plates and pages are foxed.Very rare and complete copy of the original edition of J.P. Schoemaker's work on the Lombok War. Schoemaker was a Captain of Infantry in the Dutch East Indies army. - - This copy is the former work copy of the Dutch writer Ewald Vanvugt, and provided with annotations by him in pencil. In 1994 Vanvugt published the book "De schatten van Lombok. Honderd jaar Nederlandse oorlogsbuit uit Indonesië" about the Dutch war booty from Indonesia.The Lombok War of 1894 was a military conflict between Bali and Lombok in which both powers submitted a military petition to the government of the Dutch East Indies, and where the colonial government chose the side of Bali. The war is known in the Netherlands as the Lombok Expedition and is divided into the First and Second Lombok Expedition. The battle ended in a Dutch victory. As part of the war, the Dutch government stole 230 kilos of gold, 7,199 kilos of silver coins and over a thousand other valuables from the Raja of Lombok, his family members and followers who had died in battle. This loot is known as the Lombok Treasure.