Travel - Brooke (James, Esq), Narrative of Events in Borneo ...

Hammer

£600

Travel - Brooke (James, Esq), Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, Down to the Occupation of Labuan [...], Together with a Narrative of the Operations of H.M.S. Iris by Captain Rodney Mundy, R.N., With Numerous Plates, Maps, Charts, and Woodcuts, first edition, two-volume set, London: John Murray, 1848, pp: [2] (blank), [2], xvii, [1] (blank), 385, [1] (colophon), 3 fold-out maps/charts (one of which is hand-coloured), [2] (publisher's advert), illustrated with 9 mixed media full-page plates, including tinted lithographs; xi, [1] (blank), 395, [1] (colophon), 2 fold-out maps/charts, 16 (publisher's advert and index), illustrated with 9 mixed media full-page plates, including tinted lithographs, contemporary publisher's red cloth pictorial gilt with a junk and the Sultan of Borneo's seal with Islamic script, 20th century reback of red morocco gilt, top-edges gilt, 8vo, [2]