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London: Simpson Low, Marson, Searle & Rivington, Crown buildings, 188, Fleet Street, E.C.:1885.. First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xx, 536; chromolithograph frontispiece (Forbes' Honeyeater), numerous text illustrations, seven maps five of which are folding, appendix, index, quarter red leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, all page edges marbled, new endpapers, otherwise a good tight copy. The Author travelled from Keeling Islands through Indonesia, he visits Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas, Timor, Tanimbar Islands and New Guinea.

Harper & Brothers. New York. 1885. 8vo. xix, (1), 536, 4pp adverts. Coloured frontispiece of Mrs Forbes Honey Eater with tissue guard, 14 plates, numerous text illustrations including 1 map, 3 coloured folding maps, I coloured map, 1 monochrome map. Original pictorial cloth, gilt and black, slight wear to head of spine. Uniformly toned, a tight crisp copy. Orientalia booksellers plate, New York to rep. A nice copy.
Henry O Forbes (1851-1932) Scottish explorer, zoologist and botanist. Travels and observations in The Cocos-Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Moluccas and Timor-Laut, Buru, Timor etc