Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries; being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine Islands, Sulu, Siam, Cochin China, Malaya

A$37,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Accompanied by an index and six maps. Part first [all published]. Singapore : the author, 1837. Quarto (266 x 220 mm), finely bound in period style quarter straight-grained morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; large hand-coloured folding map of The Town and environs of Singapore, drawn by J.B. Tassin, from an actual survey by G. D. Coleman , lithographed in Calcutta in 1836 (neatly split along one fold), pp [iv]; vii; [1]; 276; [1]; 117, five further folding maps lithographed by Tassin, all but one hand-coloured, (The Indian Archipelago; Coti River, Borneo; Malacca Territory; Chart of Singapore and Rhio Straits; Map of Prince of Wales Island and Province Wellesley), some with neatly sealed tears along the folds, all offset stained (as in other copies we have handled), occasional light foxing, but a fine, complete copy of a foundation work on Singapore, containing much also on Siam (Thailand), Sumatra and Java (Indonesia). In 1835 an announcement was made in the Singapore Chronicle that Moor would publish a grand work in two volumes, being a definitive history of Singapore and the region. The first volume (offered here) would consist of articles previously published in the Chronicle from 1824 1834, where Moor had served as an editor. There are no known surviving copies of the Chronicle for the years 1824 1826, and so the articles preserved in this volume would otherwise have been lost. The project was a financial disaster, the price of six Spanish dolla

• Binding: Hardcover

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