The Eastern seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian archipelago, in 1832-33-34, comprising a tour of the island of Java - visits to Borneo, the Malay peninsula, Siam, &c.; also an account of the present state of Singapore, with observations on the commercial resources of the archipelago.

London, W.H. Hallen and Co, 1837

€ 300 / 400

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Lot description

8vo; 4 maps (occ. foxing).

Mod. three-quarter brown cloth, marbled paper covers, flat spine.

First edition. Illustrated with 4 fold. maps (Indian archipelago, harbour of Cali Pujang (Java), West coast of Borneo and Borneo). The English navigator Earl (1813-1865), created the word "Indu-nesian" for a paper in 1850. A word that later would become later "Indonesia".