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The residency of Semarang, Central Java, featuring crops (coffee, rice, bamboo, nipa palm); warehouses, cemeteries, post offices; routes, administrative borders; mountains, rivers, forests. An inset map shows updated details of the Kendal district.

Map of the Riouw (Riau) Residency, Sumatra. The border between Riau and the island’s west coast is marked in red ‘as far as it is known [voor zoo verre die... bekend is]’, ending abruptly in the unexplored mountains near Lake Toba, northern Sumatra.

The residency of Banyumas (‘Residentie Banjoemas’) in Central Java is shown divided into regencies (yellow borders) and districts (blue borders) on this map. Cities, towns and villages are marked, as are roads, rivers, paths and postal routes.

Topographic map of the residency of Pekalongan (Central Java), divided into regencies (pink borders) and districts (yellow borders). Mountains, forests, settlements, routes, crops—alang-alang, coffee, sugar, rice—factories and warehouses are shown.

The residency of Kadoe (Kadu), Central Java, is shown divided into regencies and districts, with population figures for each district. Villages (kampongs) and towns, fields, mountains, rivers and roads are marked. There is an inset triangulation map.

Four-sheet topographic map of the residency of Japara (Jepara, Central Java), with an inset signal map of locations’ heights and distances. Administrative districts, crops—coffee, alang-alang, rice, sugarcane, coconut—and fishing ponds are shown.

The residency of Djokjakarta (Yogyakarta), southern Java, featuring crops (coffee, sugar, rice, alang-alang, tobacco, indigo plants, nipa palm, bamboo); warehouses, cemeteries, post offices; routes, administrative borders; mountains, rivers.

The lower half of this two-sheet topographic map of the residency of Tagal (Tegal, Central Java) is dominated by mountains, with the upper half split between forests and rice paddies, and the larger settlements near the coast.

On this map of the northern tip of the Minahasa Peninsula, the roads have been added in pencil after the map was printed. Similarly, the elevation (side view) of the peninsula’s mountains has the route of a journey added in pencil.

This map follows a railway line south from the city of Samarang to Soerakarta and Djokdjokarta (cities in two of the ‘Vorstenlanden’ or ‘Princely Lands’). Other railways, rivers, crops (indigo plants, tobacco, coffee) and sugar factories are marked.

The use of hachures—short lines/dashes that give a sense of the shape and steepness of terrain—highlight the mountain ranges along the west coast of Sumatra, with rivers flowing east. The island is divided into administrative ‘residencies’.

The residency of Soerakarta (Surakarta), Central Java, featuring crops (coffee, sugarcane, rice, sugar); warehouses (coffee, sugar, tobacco, indigo plant); factories (sugar, tobacco, indigo plant); routes (railway, postal, road).