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Cass, 1968. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Edition; Fine facsimile reprint. Physical description; 416 p.,ill., 22 cm. Notes; Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., R. Bentley, 1848. Summary; First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Subjects; Sociology, social studies ; Economic systems. Malaysia. Social Science / Anthropology / General. Sarawak - Description and travel. Sarawak - Social life and customs.

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First edition. First issue. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. London. 1848. Crown 8vo. xxiv, 416pp, 6pp manuscript index bound in. Engraved frontis., 6 further plates. Later rebacking using original red cloth embossed boards, bumped with shelf wear to extremities. Some foxing to plates, occasional spotting to text. Marginal tear 170. Last page chipped to upper corner. Occasional marginal pencil annotation, in the same hand as index.
Inscribed to title page "To Edw. Thomas" [indecipherable: Glansevern? Glansevin?]
Low, Sir Hugh
(1824–1905), botanist and colonial administrator. "Low became closely associated with James Brooke, who was then establishing his regime in Sarawak. Low also travelled widely in north Borneo and acquired exceptional knowledge of the land and people, which he demonstrated in his book Sarawak: its Inhabitants and Productions." Low developed a twelve-acre garden with a choice selection of plants. He made the first documented climb of Mount Kinabalu, the… Read More

London, Bentley, 1848. . First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 416 pp., 6 engraved and 1 lithograph plates (1 double-page), original red cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine, some spotting to plates, especially frontispiece, a very good copy.

London 1848, Bentley. New full blind-stamped leather, very good, appendix, 416p., engraved frontis + 6 steel engravings a very nice copy, marbled endpapers. R A R E ! This very rare was book written by Her Majesty's Commission- er in Borneao, Rajah of Sarawak, Governor of Labuh-an. It is the personal narrative of some 30 months residence and the West coast of Boreno. His object was to make a collection of plants and seeds, study the tribes of aborigines. Brooke saw more of these tribes than any other Englishman or Europ- ean who visited those shores. A valuable history of the flo- ra and fauna, ethnology of the people, the land & life style of the Dyaks & Kykans. Of monkeys, orang utan, panther, reptiles, domestic fowls & animals. The Malays, aborigines, Dutch, English settlements,Muller's expedition,slave debtors Arab descendants. Piracy, opium smoking, exports, manners of women, price of a wife. Sea-Dyaks, tribes of, language, lack of manners, cookery, their women, head hunting.… Read More