Borneo and the Indian Archipelago.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.

Price: $1,000.00


About the item

22 tinted lithographed plates and numerous wood-engravings to text. viii, 232pp. Small folio. Uncut in twentieth century green cloth, library blindstamp to title page, dampstaining affecting one plate, a bit grubby. Good. Abbey Travel, 549; Hill, 1088.

Item #300926

Francis was the son the rather more famous Frederick Marryat. This is his finely illustrated account of Sir Edward Belcher's 1843-46 voyage on HMS Samarang. The purpose of the voyage was to survey the important ports of Singapore, Borneo, Hong Kong, Macao, the Philippines, Japan and others. This work is distiguished by the author's lithographs.