A New Account of the East Indies, Hamilton, Alexander
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Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Title: A New Account of the East Indies
Place Published: London
Publisher:Argonaut Press
Date Published: 1930
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2 volumes. xxxvii, 259; vi, 225 pp. (4to) 26x18.5 cm (10¼x7½"), original vellum-backed green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 975 copies on Japon Vellum.
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Title: A New Account of the East Indies
Place Published: London
Publisher:Argonaut Press
Date Published: 1930
Description:
2 volumes. xxxvii, 259; vi, 225 pp. (4to) 26x18.5 cm (10¼x7½"), original vellum-backed green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 975 copies on Japon Vellum.
Hamilton's account of his journeys between 1688 and 1723, first published in 1727, "remains to this day one of the most valuable first-hand histories of English merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean and East Indies." (Howgego) "This extremely important work treats the whole of the Orient including Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, India, Goa, Ceylon, Bengal, Pegu, Siam, Malacca, Johore, Sumatra, Java, the Moluccas, Borneo, Cambodia, Viet Nam, China, the Philippines, Formosa, and Japan." (Hill) Cox I p. 287. Hill II p. 440. Howgego H13.
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Some light wear to bindings, and soiling of spine; foxing, pages uncut; very good.
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