A Visit to the Indian Archipelago - Henry Keppel 1853 - Richard Bentley, London - First Edition A lovely clean two volumes in original publisher’s gilt decorated cloth bindings, illustrated by Oswald W. Brierley with eight tinted chromolithograph plates, and the scarce folding ‘Chart of the Indian Archipelago Shewing the Track of H.M. Ship Mæander’ in pocket of volume I.

‘Keppel returned to the China Station in 1847, and was appointed to convey Sir James Brooke to Labuan, an island off Borneo. At Brooke's suggestion, Labuan was ceded to Great Britain in 1846 by the Sultan of Brunei; it was made a crown colony, and Brooke was named governor. Keppel's book treats of the voyage to Labuan, incidents there, piracy in the South China Sea, and gives a description of Manila.’ - [Hill 920, Abbey Travel 550] More Details