Archive of seven diplomatic credential letters borne

by H.C.S. Marquis Cornwallis to the rulers of the Indonesian and Philippine archipelago by British East India Company, - John Canning, Capt

$6,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An exceptional archive, uniting British, Malay, and Islamic manuscript traditions, that captures the East India Company’s first concerted overtures to the island-states of Southeast Asia. Drafted in the wake of the Dutch East India Company's collapse and the French Revolutionary Wars, this archive documents the East India Company's first concerted diplomatic overtures to the maritime courts of the Malay world. With Dutch control unraveling after the 1795 Batavian

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