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The First and Last -
Joseph Conrad
1929 - Ernest Benn Limited, London - First Edition Thus
A collection of Conrad’s novels containing the first two he wrote - Almayer's Folly; An Outcast of the Islands; and the last two - The Arrow of Gold; and The Rover.
[The Rescue, published in 1920, is not included, possibly because Conrad actually began writing it in the 1890’s and it is in fact the conclusion of the Lingard Trilogy which began with the first two novels in this collection].
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1929 - Ernest Benn Limited, London - First Edition Thus
A collection of Conrad’s novels containing the first two he wrote - Almayer's Folly; An Outcast of the Islands; and the last two - The Arrow of Gold; and The Rover.[The Rescue, published in 1920, is not included, possibly because Conrad actually began writing it in the 1890’s and it is in fact the conclusion of the Lingard Trilogy which began with the first two novels in this collection].
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Fifty Years of Romance & Research - or - A Jungle-Wallah at Large - RESERVED -
Charles Hose
1927 - Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London - First Edition
‘Nature has given Charles Hose an endowment she bestows on few - the power of remaining young in heart and in outlook as years mount up. It is because he has retained his boyish spirit and his freshness of vision that he has been able to give zest to his narrative. There is in it something of Robinson Crusoe, something of Treasure Island.... something he drank in as a youth from Stamford Raffles, from the Rajahs Brooke’ - Sir Arthur Keith.
Charles Hose (1863-1929) entered the service of the Raja of Sarawak, Sir Charles Brooke in 1884, retiring in 1907 as a member of the Supreme Council and Judge of the Supreme Court of Sarawak. Hose was a zoologist, eleven species of bird, animal and amphibian are named in his honour, he was also an ethnologist and keen amateur photographer. Many of his photographs are now housed in the Fort Hose museum in Sarawak.
Illustrated with four colour plates, 97 black and white photographic plates, mostly from Hose’s superb photographs, and two line drawings and a map.
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1927 - Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London - First Edition
‘Nature has given Charles Hose an endowment she bestows on few - the power of remaining young in heart and in outlook as years mount up. It is because he has retained his boyish spirit and his freshness of vision that he has been able to give zest to his narrative. There is in it something of Robinson Crusoe, something of Treasure Island.... something he drank in as a youth from Stamford Raffles, from the Rajahs Brooke’ - Sir Arthur Keith.Charles Hose (1863-1929) entered the service of the Raja of Sarawak, Sir Charles Brooke in 1884, retiring in 1907 as a member of the Supreme Council and Judge of the Supreme Court of Sarawak. Hose was a zoologist, eleven species of bird, animal and amphibian are named in his honour, he was also an ethnologist and keen amateur photographer. Many of his photographs are now housed in the Fort Hose museum in Sarawak.
Illustrated with four colour plates, 97 black and white photographic plates, mostly from Hose’s superb photographs, and two line drawings and a map.
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Natural Man: A Record From Borneo - RESERVED -
Charles Hose
1926 - Macmillan & Co., London - First Edition
Hose, an authority on the tribes of Sarawak, eloquently and engagingly describes the customs and beliefs, the arts, crafts, creeds, superstitions, morals, and tribal village life of the native tribes of Borneo.
Profusely illustrated with over 100 photographic plates mostly taken by Hose, and a large colour folding map to the rear.
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1926 - Macmillan & Co., London - First Edition
Hose, an authority on the tribes of Sarawak, eloquently and engagingly describes the customs and beliefs, the arts, crafts, creeds, superstitions, morals, and tribal village life of the native tribes of Borneo. Profusely illustrated with over 100 photographic plates mostly taken by Hose, and a large colour folding map to the rear.
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The Pagan Tribes of Borneo -
Charles Hose, William McDougall, A. C. Haddon
1912 - Macmillan & Co. Limited, London - First Edition
A superb two volume set of this important work on the tribes of Borneo, illustrated with over 200 photographic plates, mostly tinted, the two frontispieces being coloured, four folding maps together with ten tables (all but one folding).
‘The book is essentially an attempt to set forth in condensed form the mass of knowledge of the tribes of Borneo acquired by Dr. Hose in the course of a quarter of a century's intimate study of, and sympathetic companionship with, the people of the interior.’ [Preface]
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1912 - Macmillan & Co. Limited, London - First Edition
A superb two volume set of this important work on the tribes of Borneo, illustrated with over 200 photographic plates, mostly tinted, the two frontispieces being coloured, four folding maps together with ten tables (all but one folding).‘The book is essentially an attempt to set forth in condensed form the mass of knowledge of the tribes of Borneo acquired by Dr. Hose in the course of a quarter of a century's intimate study of, and sympathetic companionship with, the people of the interior.’ [Preface]
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The Far Eastern Tropics: Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies - SIGNED -
Alleyne Ireland
1905 - Houghton, Boston and New York - First Edition
A near fine copy, with chapters on Hong Kong, Borne, Sarawak, Burma, French Indo-China, Jave, the Philippine Islands, etc.
Inscribed by the author and dated 1908. With colour fold out map of ‘The Far Eastern Tropics’ in fine condition housed in pocket at rear.
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1905 - Houghton, Boston and New York - First Edition
A near fine copy, with chapters on Hong Kong, Borne, Sarawak, Burma, French Indo-China, Jave, the Philippine Islands, etc.Inscribed by the author and dated 1908. With colour fold out map of ‘The Far Eastern Tropics’ in fine condition housed in pocket at rear.
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The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido -
Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel
1846 - Chapman and Hall, London - Second Edition
‘Keppel, a British naval officer who had served in the Opium War, participated in the campaign against the Borneo pirates in 1843-44. During the execution of his orders to protect trade and suppress piracy in the Malacca Straits, he met James Brooke who had received the title of rajah of Sarawak, in perpetuity, from the Sultan of Brunei. ‘ [Hill]
In two volumes. Illustrated with lithographed frontispiece, nine tinted lithographic plates, three engraved folding plans, three folding engraved maps, and a folding table. Published in the same year as the first but with a large additional appendix and many revisions.
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1846 - Chapman and Hall, London - Second Edition
‘Keppel, a British naval officer who had served in the Opium War, participated in the campaign against the Borneo pirates in 1843-44. During the execution of his orders to protect trade and suppress piracy in the Malacca Straits, he met James Brooke who had received the title of rajah of Sarawak, in perpetuity, from the Sultan of Brunei. ‘ [Hill]In two volumes. Illustrated with lithographed frontispiece, nine tinted lithographic plates, three engraved folding plans, three folding engraved maps, and a folding table. Published in the same year as the first but with a large additional appendix and many revisions.
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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]
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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]
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Sixty Years: Life and Adventure in the Far East -
John Dill Ross
1911 - E.P. Dutton & Company, New York - First US Edition [simultaneously with UK edition, Hutchison title page replaced with Dutton]
The wonderful autobiography of a young man coming to the far east to seek his fortune, beginning in Singapore and later through Borneo, The Philippines and other islands of the Eastern seas. In two volumes, with three photogravure plates, 21 black and white photographic plates, and folding map of ‘Malay, or East Indian Archipelago with Burma and Siam’.
Although the pen name is John Dill Ross, by all accounts (including those in the 1911 book review in the ’Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser’) this is actually the autobiography of John Dillon Northwood.
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1911 - E.P. Dutton & Company, New York - First US Edition [simultaneously with UK edition, Hutchison title page replaced with Dutton]
The wonderful autobiography of a young man coming to the far east to seek his fortune, beginning in Singapore and later through Borneo, The Philippines and other islands of the Eastern seas. In two volumes, with three photogravure plates, 21 black and white photographic plates, and folding map of ‘Malay, or East Indian Archipelago with Burma and Siam’.Although the pen name is John Dill Ross, by all accounts (including those in the 1911 book review in the ’Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser’) this is actually the autobiography of John Dillon Northwood.
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