Resultados de búsqueda: narrative of events in borneo and de mundy captain rodney

London: John Murray, 1848. Hardcover. Good +. xvii, 385 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait. Two fold-out charts at rear, one in colour. 9 other illustrations. Rebound in quarter leather (ostrich?) with brown cloth. No lettering to spine or covers. New endpapers. Dampstained top corner to frontispiece. Hinges cracking internally. Pages darkening with some thumbing. Ex library with ink notation on lower title page. "From the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Rajah of Sarawak, and Governor of Labuan. Together with a Narrative of the Operations of H. M. S. Iris."

London: John Murray, 1848. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 385, [1]; xi, [1], 395; engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 folding maps and charts (1 hand-colored), 6 lithograph plates, 11 wood-engraved plates; original pictorial red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt vignette of a sailing vessel on upper covers, the seal of the Sultan of Borneo on lower covers; both volumes neatly rebacked with old spines laid down, but with loss of "ah" in 'Rajah' on volume I; all else very good and sound. National Maritime Museum Catalogue I, 461: "These events, which occurred between 1839-1847, were closely connected with the expedition of Captain Henry Keppel to the area, in HMS Dido and Maeander" in order to suppress Borneo piracy."