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1846Best.-Nr. 0829-22London, Chapman and Hall 1846. 2 vols. 8°. XII, 1 p.337 pp., XXVIII; VIII, 1 p, 230 pp., CII, 16 pp. (Verlagsanz./Publisher-Announcements) mit zus. 2 get. lithograph. Frontisp. , 9 get. lith. Taf, e. gefalt. Tabelle u. 6 gefalt. gest. Taf./ with tog. 2 tinted lithographed frontis., 9 tinted lithographed plates, one fol. chart and 6 engraved fold. maps. Blindgeprägtes OLn. mit goldgepr. Rückentitel/Original blindstamped blue cloth with gilt stamped title on the back. Einband lichtrandig, innen stellenw. stockfleckig, erste Bll. in Bd. I. mit leichtem Wasserrand, Taf. etwas gebräunt, in Bd. 2 eine Lage halb lose. Spiegel mit Namenszug/Binding rubbed, some foxing, first pages in Vol. 1 sl. waterstained, some pages in vol. 2 loosed. EA.
1846Best.-Nr. 313655London: Chapman and Hall 1846. First edition. With 6 folding maps 11 plates folding table. xii ii 338 xxviii; ciii ii 230 ii cii pp. 2 vols. 4to. Nineteenth-century half calf marbled sides all edges marbled. Light rubbing one map backed in linen with soil at one fold. Townshend bookplate on endpapers initials "H.M.C." at head of title partially trimmed when bound. Overall near fine. First edition. With 6 folding maps 11 plates folding table. xii ii 338 xxviii; ciii ii 230 ii cii pp. 2 vols. 4to. Henry Keppel was a British naval officer who served in the Opium War and was sent to the Malacca Straits in the 1843-44 campaign to suppress Borneo pirates. Keppel Harbour a stretch of water at the southern tip of Singapore was named after him after he cleared the straits of pirates. The two volumes recount James Brooke's exploits in Sarawak the military explots of Brooke Keppel and Sir Edward Belcher and a geographical overview of Borneo as well as commentary on the natural history of the region. Hill 2004 918 Chapman and Hall unknown books
First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (214 x 130 mm), xii, [2], 337, [1], xxviii; viii, [2], 230, [2], ciipp., without half-titles, 4 folding plans, 2 folding maps, 1 folding letterpress table and 11 lithograph plates (some heavy spotting), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners worn, spine tooled in gilt, contrasting leather spine labels lettered in gilt, a nice set. "Keppel, a British naval officer who had served in the opium War, participated in the campaigns against the Borneo pirates in 1843-44... The first volume concerns itself with Brooke's exploits in Sarawak from 1838-42... Brooke attempted to open Borneo for foreign trade and tried to pacify the tribes... Volume two recounts the military exploits of Brooke, Keppel and Sir Edward Belcher... gives a geographical overview of Borneo, and includes accounts of the Dyaks, the aboriginal Borneo Tribes."?Hill. Hill, The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, 918.
1846Best.-Nr. 45442London, Chapman and Hall, 1846. 1 xii [2], 337 pp, xxviii, 16 pp, Vol. 2 viii, [2], 229 pp, cii, 2 charts, 4 plans, 1 table and 11 lithograph plates, Ex-Libris auf Vorsatzblatt gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen, Rücken aufgehellt, Schnitt unbeschnitten, Bände etwas schief, sonst Exemplar in gutem Erhaltungszustand
1988Features: The Xinjiang - Tibet Mountain Bike Expedition; The Dyaks of Borneo; Walking to Cape Londonderry, Western Australia; Time and Tide; The Flight of the Arctic Tern; The Chariot Animals of Queen Shub-Ad at Ur; Henry S. Evans - Profile of Accomplishment. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1993Features: The Mummified Bulls of Saqqara; Exploratory Mountaineering - the Arctic Islands of Canada; Alexander Selkirk - The Real Robinson Crusoe; Fifty Feet of Rain (Island of Borneo); Young Explorers - Nicholas Moore Wiedmann, SM '92; Geographers as Literary Explorers; Dreadnoughts of the Mara; Rio Revisited - Exploring the '92 Global Forum; Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center Established in Beijing. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Best.-Nr. 13982297Marina Del Rey, California: Mark A. Johnson Tribal Art, 2020 in-4, 295 pages, 141 planches (235 photos d'objets), carte. Index, bibliographie. Cartonnage d'éd., lég. défraîchi, état d'usage. Book on the sculpture of the Kayanic Dayak of eastern Borneo Island.
1989Best.-Nr. 279244Amsterdam: Pepin Press 1989. 143 S., zahlr. s/w Abb.Br.
19938vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
18838vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1992Best.-Nr. 039498New York, Oxford., Facts On File. (Publisher)., 1992. Photographs by Terry Domico. 208S. mit zahlreichen farbigen Fotografien. Nachtitelblatt mit privater Widmung. 4°. OPappband.
1931Best.-Nr. 64637London UK: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 1931. Thick 8vo. 320 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates. Green publisher’s cloth blue lettering & border ruling very slight shelfwear slight foxing to fore-edges w/ d.j. photo cover art minor chipping head of spine dustsoiling edgewear 1 minor closed tear still a NF/VG copy. First edition 1st printing stated of this follow-up travelogue recording his adventures in the Kimberley Gold Rush the pearl fisheries of the Indian Ocean coping with the Pirates of Panay hunting for sunken treasure and shocking discoveries in a supposed Indigenous “cannibal” cooking pot. Burdett b. 1864 was renowned for his pearling and natural history expeditions sailing through the Indian Ocean Indonesia and extended expeditions into the Philippines Indonesia and across the South Pacific. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 64636London UK: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 1930. Thick 8vo. 317 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates. Green publisher’s cloth blue lettering & border ruling maps on endpapers slightly cocked slight occasional foxing very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. photo cover art minor chipping head & foot of spine dustsoiling edgewear small chip on back cover still a VG/VG- copy from the library of Claude Bridgland. First edition 1st printing stated of this rousing travelogue of the author’s “thrilling record of forty years’ adventures among the Igorote Head-hunters the Negrito Pygmies Aeta of Luzon whose poisoned arrows are the terror of the forests of Luzon the Dusun Python-hunters of the Borneo jungles the Corsairs and Sultans of the Sulu Sea and the Moro warriors of Mindanao.” Burdett b. 1864 was renowned for his pearling and smuggling expeditions gold mining in the Kimberley mines and extended expeditions into the Philippines Indonesia and across the South Pacific. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. 278909Kuching Sarawak Museum 2000. IX, 325 S., einige Karten u. Taf. Br. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
2001Best.-Nr. 278911Kuching Sarawak Museum 2001. XI, 345 S., einige Abb. u. Taf. Br. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
1982Best.-Nr. 278912Kuching Sarawak Museum 1982. XV, 202 S., einige Abb. u. Taf. Br. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
2002Best.-Nr. 278910Kuching Sarawak Museum 2002. IX, 309 S., einige Abb. u. Taf. Br. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
1982Best.-Nr. 278903Kuching Sarawak Museum 1982. 271 S., 21 Taf., einige Karten u. Kartenbeilagen. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
1993Best.-Nr. 278908Kuching Sarawak Museum 1993. XXIII, 192 S., einige Karten u. Taf. Br. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
1985Best.-Nr. 278907Kuching Sarawak Museum 1985. IX, 222 S., einige Karten u. Taf. Br. *Borneo, Malaysia*.
1994Best.-Nr. BN632389Borneo Research Council 1994. 1994. The Seen and the Unseen: Shamanism Mediumship and Possession in Borneo Monograph Series The Seen and the Unseen: Shamanism Mediumship and Possession in Borneo Monograph Series Winzeler Robert L. and Va. Borneo Research Council Williamsburg Borneo Research Council unknown
19848vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Barbara Walton
1935Pages 1-84, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Through the Shan States - part 2; The King's Ju-Ju; Phases of Life - Fire-Walking in Java, Gomez the Killer, The Queensland "Mounted"; A "Side-Show" in Borneo; The Queer Side of Things - What the Palmist Foretold; Our Japanese Burglar; The Pickle-Bottle; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
1914Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1915Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
