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*''Java: Past & Present, a description of the most beautiful country in the world, its ancient history, people, antiquities, and products'' by Donald Maclaine Campbell, late British-Vice Consul, 1915 [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd01camp Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd02camp Volume II] with a [https://archive.org/stream/javapastpresentd02camp#page/n691/mode/1up Geological and Volcanos map] Archive.org
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), Batavia and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/hiddenforcestory00coup/page/n6 ''The Hidden Force: a Story of Modern Java''] by Louis Couperus translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 1921 Archive.org. A novel. Originally written 1900.
*''The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'' [https://archive.org/details/completeshorts01maug Volume I] Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460655 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553314 Volume III]. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya "written long before the Second World War"; there may be Borneo stories in any volume. (See External links, above.) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Short+Stories%29+AND+creator%3A%28Somerset+Maugham%29&sort=-date Other ''Short Stories'' editions] mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/fareasterntales00maug ''Far Eastern Tales''] Archive.org Lending Library. The short stories appear to have been written mainly in the 1920s-1930s.
*[https://archive.org/details/insulindeselecte0000unse/page/n7 ''Insulinde : selected translations from Dutch writers of three centuries on the Indonesian archipelago''] edited by Cornelia Niekus Moore 1978. Archive.org Lending Library. Also includes a few factual accounts.
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*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), Batavia and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
*[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A21093.0001.001?view=toc ''A courante of newes from the East India. A true relation of the taking of the ilands of Lantore and Polaroone in the parts of Bande in the East Indies by the Hollanders, which ilands had yeelded themselues subiect vnto the King of England. Written to the East India Company in England from their factors there''] 1622. A transcription. lib.umich.edu
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5ElpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''The Civil Wars of Bantam, Or, An Impartial Relation of All the Battels, Sieges and Other Remarkable Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents that Happened in the Late Civil Wars Between that King and His Eldest Son ...: Giving a Particular Account of the ... Siege and Taking of the City of Bantam and the English Factory There by the Young King, with the Help ... of the Dutch : in Several Letters from a Gentleman Residing for the East-India-Company at Bantam to a Merchant in London''] 1683 Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/fareasterntropic00ireluoft/page/160/mode/2up Java] page 160 ''The Far Eastern Tropics, Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies: Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Phillipine Islands'' by Alleyne Ireland 1905 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org [[Ceylon]], [[Malaysia|Malaya]], Java, Sumatra
*[https://archive.org/details/20thc-impressions-netherlands-india/page/n5/mode/2up ''Twentieth Century Impressions of Netherlands India. Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources''] by Arnold Wright and Oliver T Breakspear 1909 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183295 ''Through the Malay Archipelago''] by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org
:*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:095/#page/309/mode/1up Map of Java]
:*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:095/#page/311/mode/1up Map of Netherlands East Indies]. May be very slow to open.
*[https://archive.org/details/1913-jusii-v42/page/321/mode/2up "Java- The Garden of the East"] by Lieut. F G C Campbell 40th Pathans page 311 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India'' Volume 42, 1913. Archive.org
*''Java: Past & Present, a description of the most beautiful country in the world, its ancient history, people, antiquities, and products'' by Donald Maclaine Campbell, late British-Vice Consul, 1915 [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd01camp Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/javapastpresentd02camp Volume II] with a [https://archive.org/stream/javapastpresentd02camp#page/n691/mode/1up Geological and Volcanos map] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ruralsanitationi00wats ''Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands''] by Sir Malcolm Watson 1915 Archive.org. There is a chapter on Sumatra relating to malaria.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1919-1938-between-wars ''Military Report on the Netherlands’ Possessions in the East Indies''] Prepared by the General Staff, War Office 1919. Website Previously available from the website of the Australian Army, located under Our Heritage/ History/Primary Materials/1919 to 1938 - Between the Wars/Documents. This appears to be an internal British Army document which is marked Confidential. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190409095125/https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/military_report_on_the_netherlands_possessions_in_the_east_indies_1919_0.pdf Direct link], now archived.
*[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=389234 ''The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Kees van Dijk 2007. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924062748995 ''A Manual of Netherlands India (Dutch East Indies)''] by Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO 1920. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*Series: ''Economic and Social History of the World War : Dutch Series'', published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [https://archive.org/details/EconomicSocialHi0003Carn_n2g5 ''The Netherlands and the World War. Studies in the War History of a Neutral. Volume III The Effect of the War Upon the Colonies''] by Professor J H Carpentier Alting and W De Cock Buning 1928 Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b543764?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library] with darker print. Includes the Netherlands East Indies.
*[https://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2650 ''In Java : and the neighboring islands of the Dutch East Indies''] by John Charles Van Dyke 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". [https://archive.org/details/in-java-1929/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2917 ''The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago : the animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture and forestry in the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines''] by Karel Willem Dammerman 1929. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Probably may be sample pages only. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Agricultural_Zoology_of_the_Malay_Ar.html?id=yXJMAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]
*[https://archive.org/details/aclcpl000003a299/mode/2up ''The Coins of the Dutch East Indies: an Introduction to the study of the series''] by Sir John Bucknill 1931 Archive.org, Anna Digital Library Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RXhCAAAAIAAJ Google Books].[https://www.shakariconnection.com/w-robert-foran-books.html About the author] shakariconnection.com*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/1/38285 ''Belle of Bali being impressions of a pleasure cruise to the Dutch East Indies via Cochin, Colombo, Penang, and Singapore''] by Ardaser Sorabjee N. Wadia 1936. Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandsindia0000furn/page/n5/mode/2up ''Netherlands India : a study of plural economy''] by J S Furnivall, (John Sydenham), late Indian Civil Service Burma. 1939 reprinted 1967. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/islesofspice00clun ''Isles of Spice''] by Frank Clune 1942. Archive.org Lending Library. A trip in 1939.
*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35900 ''French View of the Netherlands Indies''] by G.H. Bousquet ; translated from the French by Philip E. Lilienthal 1940. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.*[http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:398969 ''Netherlands Overseas Territories''] published by The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Information Department Papers No. 28. July 1941. Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections (Collection Caribbean Sources). Also available [https://archive.org/details/UNIVERSITEITLEIDEN-DIG-398969/mode/2up Archive.org]. Mainly about Indonesia.
*[https://archive.org/details/APocketGuideToTheNetherlandsEastIndies ''A Pocket Guide to the Netherlands East Indies''] by United States Army Service Forces, Special Service Division. 1943 Archive.org. Select one page option if viewing online. [https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/pocket-guide-netherlands-east-indies.html Transcribed version] history.navy.mil/research/library.
*''Netherlands East Indies'' by Naval Intelligence Division 1944. [https://archive.org/details/b3216886x_0001/page/n3/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b3216886x_0002/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org. 2nd copies with some minor differences, perhaps printed in India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70084 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70085 Volume 2] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77452/page/n5 ''Java Revisited''] by John Fabricius, (catalogued Fabricus) translated from the Dutch by M S Stephens 1947. Archive.org. The author was working in Java 1945-1946 as a war correspondent.
*Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume ''Senshi Sōsho'' (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. The three volumes relating to Indonesia have been translated into English, funded by the Corts Foundation. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210703030125/https://www.cortsfoundation.org/about-us/projects/senshi-sosho "Senshi Sōsho"] a page from The Corts Foundation, archived. (The Corts Foundation, a Dutch non profit organisation, following the 3rd publication has decided to conclude the activities as an autonomous foundation and is transferring its activities to the new ‘Philippus Corts Fonds’, now part of 'The Learned Society /[https://www.verenigingkitlv.nl KITLV]'. Leiden)
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/search?type=dismax&islandora_solr_search_navigation=1&f%5B0%5D=RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms%3A%22info%5C%3Afedora%5C/collection%5C%3Aaceh_books%22&f%5B1%5D=mods_accessCondition_restriction_on_access_ms%3A%22Download%5C%20provided.%22 Aceh Books Collection] [online] using filter "download provided". Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections. Mainly Dutch language titles, but some English titles. There are also other Collections available which may contain relevant titles.
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