Spenser

1899 · 27037 — London: T. Fisher Unwin. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library Invercargill Atheneum and Invercargill Public Libary. Library stamps labels and markings. Later ex-libris bookplate Frank G. Glen. Rebound in half-calf binding. A 30mm split to leather at top of front joint.; xxiv 302 2 blank pages. Photogravure portrait frontispiece.2 folding maps. Rebound in half calf leather binding with burgundy cloth boards. Page dimensions: 186 x 122mm. The maps are titled "Map of Sarawak and its Dependencies at the close of Sir James Brooke's Government" and "Map of Borneo and part of the Eastern Archipelago shewing British Territories British Protectorates and Federated Malay States". "Sir Spenser Buckingham St. John GCMG FRGS 22 December 1825 – 3 January 1910 was British Consul in Brunei in the mid 19th century . . . In 1847 St John's father the journalist James Augustus St. John introduced him to James Brooke. He went out to Sarawak the following year to become Brooke's private secretary and thus began his diplomatic career." - Wikipedia entry on Spenser St John accessed February 2025. Series: Builders of Great Britain. . T. Fisher Unwin hardcover