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The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak.
de KEPPEL, CAPTAIN THE HON. HENRY
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New York.: Harper & Brothers.. First American Edition.. 1846.. Folding black and white map paper uniformly browned, xii + 414pp, two publisher's catalogues of 8 and 4 pages each bound in at rear, appendix. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt device, backstrip chipped and torn with loss as usual. Text sound and clean and binding tight. After meeting James Brooke in Singapore, Captain Henry Keppel took the Rajah to the coast of Sarawak to engage in a campaign against piracy. Throughout the 1840s Captain Keppel was engaged in a number of campaigns against the pirates of Borneo. First American Edition (abridged, from the second London edition) of this first-hand account of the suppression of the Borneo pirate tribes in 1843-44 by Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, Keppel, and other commanders of the British ships of war. .
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- Título
- The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak.
- Autor
- KEPPEL, CAPTAIN THE HON. HENRY
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- First American Edition.
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- Harper & Brothers.
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- New York.
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- 1846.
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- Borneo, Indonesia, Sarawak, Southeast Asia, zz_Gallery_Antiquarian, zz_ListOn_eBay
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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