MARRYAT (Francis Samuel). Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. - Lot 143

MARRYAT (Francis Samuel). Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. With Drawings of Costume and Scenery. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. In-4, VIII-232 p., 22 off-text colored lithographs and 37 woodcuts in the text, table of illustrations, contemporary red cold-decorated percaline, gilt title (headbands, corners and spines worn, spine missing, spine rebacked, browning including on title). € First edition illustrated with 22 beautiful off-text colored lithographs. Relation of the voyage to the East Indies aboard the H.M.S. Samarang under the command of Sir Edward Belcher from 1843 to 1846, the purpose of which was to study the important ports of Singapore, Borneo, Hong Kong, Macao, the Philippines, Japan and others. This work is distinguished by lithographs by the author, Francis S. Marryat (1826-1855), son of the famous English sea captain and novelist Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), now considered one of the pioneers of the maritime novel. Handwritten bookplate "Sucher" on the title page. (Abbey, Travel, 549; Hill II p. 489).