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J.H.MOOR (editor)
Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries; being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Phillippine Islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, &c. Singapore: 1837. 4° (26.8 x 21cm). 6 folding lithographic plans and maps, 5 hand-coloured or hand-coloured in outline, all by J.B.Tassin of Calcutta, extra-illustrated with a folding cut-down engraved map of the East Indies mounted on front paste-down. (Ownership stamp removed from title with resultant thinning and small hole to upper outer blank margin, maps and plans with tears or repaired tears and some light offsetting, some spotting to text, more particularly to gatherings 'A6'-'D3'.) Contemporary half roan, the flat spine divided into seven compartments by double gilt rules, morocco lettering-piece in the second, the sixth with green morocco label bearing a damaged wax seal (the spine holed through the seal, the upper compartment of the spine neatly replaced, neat repair to upper joint, lower joint split.)
RARE. Moor originally intended the work to be published in two parts but, as he makes clear in his "Preface by way of an apology", the present work with one 'part' and a substantial appendix is complete: time, money and his inability to track down a number of authors prevented completion as laid out in the prospectus. The work was collected by Moor (the ex-editor of the Singapore Chronicle) and consists of papers by John Crawfurd, J.Dalton, J.J.Newbold and others. Many of the papers were originally published in the Chronicle.
Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries; being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Phillippine Islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, &c. Singapore: 1837. 4° (26.8 x 21cm). 6 folding lithographic plans and maps, 5 hand-coloured or hand-coloured in outline, all by J.B.Tassin of Calcutta, extra-illustrated with a folding cut-down engraved map of the East Indies mounted on front paste-down. (Ownership stamp removed from title with resultant thinning and small hole to upper outer blank margin, maps and plans with tears or repaired tears and some light offsetting, some spotting to text, more particularly to gatherings 'A6'-'D3'.) Contemporary half roan, the flat spine divided into seven compartments by double gilt rules, morocco lettering-piece in the second, the sixth with green morocco label bearing a damaged wax seal (the spine holed through the seal, the upper compartment of the spine neatly replaced, neat repair to upper joint, lower joint split.)
RARE. Moor originally intended the work to be published in two parts but, as he makes clear in his "Preface by way of an apology", the present work with one 'part' and a substantial appendix is complete: time, money and his inability to track down a number of authors prevented completion as laid out in the prospectus. The work was collected by Moor (the ex-editor of the Singapore Chronicle) and consists of papers by John Crawfurd, J.Dalton, J.J.Newbold and others. Many of the papers were originally published in the Chronicle.
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The Estimate should read: GBP2,500 - 3,500