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1899976Z27London: William Brown & Co. Limited 1899. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 11". Dr. Johnstone; Mr. A. J. West. The first edition of this scarce record of the British North Borneo Company and their developments in the railway and trade industries with many photographs taken by members of the company. The first edition.A scarce work. Illustrated throughout with a colour map frontispiece monochrome photographic vignettes taken by Dr. Johnstone and Mr. A. J. West and a colour map to the rear.An account of the progress and developments of the 'North Borneo Chartered Company' published seventeen years after the Royal Charter was granted to the company. The work provides a brief history of the colony covering the climate population and geography and an account of the company's developments such as their settlements and progress in the trade and railway industry including the memorandum on the proposed railway extension. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally marks to the covers with damp stains to the front and fading and a small tear to the spine with light edge wear to the extremities. Front hinge weak and rear starting. Internally the odd page tender with bright and generally clean pages with only the very odd minor spot. Light tidemarks to the head corners to the front free endpaper to the first few pages. Good William Brown & Co. Limited hardcover
1899174028London: Printed by William Brown & Co. 1899. First edition of this commemorative publication produced 18 years after the company's founding advertising "progress" in trade and railway construction. Investors are urged to apply to the company's offices in Leadenhall Street for land and concessions. The photographs are predominantly the work of two of the company's officers Dr G. N. Johnstone and A. J. West. They include "The first train in North Borneo 3rd February 1898" the train was named "Progress" "Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee June 22nd 1897" "The Sultan of Sulu and Suite" "Chinese mummers" and portrait photographs of prominent British officials. Landscape quarto. With 2 colour maps half-tone illustrations throughout. Original red bead-grain cloth front cover lettered in gilt with gilt coat of arms of British North Borneo Company. Small 1899 ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper recto. Boards sunned and worn in places front inner hinge split at head small worm trail in margin of first map: a very good copy. hardcover
1846313655London: Chapman and Hall 1846. First edition. With 6 folding maps 11 plates folding table. xii ii 338 xxviii; ciii ii 230 ii cii pp. 2 vols. 4to. Nineteenth-century half calf marbled sides all edges marbled. Light rubbing one map backed in linen with soil at one fold. Townshend bookplate on endpapers initials "H.M.C." at head of title partially trimmed when bound. Overall near fine. First edition. With 6 folding maps 11 plates folding table. xii ii 338 xxviii; ciii ii 230 ii cii pp. 2 vols. 4to. Henry Keppel was a British naval officer who served in the Opium War and was sent to the Malacca Straits in the 1843-44 campaign to suppress Borneo pirates. Keppel Harbour a stretch of water at the southern tip of Singapore was named after him after he cleared the straits of pirates. The two volumes recount James Brooke's exploits in Sarawak the military explots of Brooke Keppel and Sir Edward Belcher and a geographical overview of Borneo as well as commentary on the natural history of the region. Hill 2004 918 Chapman and Hall unknown
1893BORNEO007093Gurney and Jackson London. 1893. First edition. Elephant folio. pp xii 317. 32 lithograph plates 11 hand-coloured 21 tinted and 21 wood engravings in the text. Original pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. Professionally rebacked with reinforcement at the inner hinges. A narrative of the author's travels in Borneo Java Palawan and Balabac Islands especially of his three efforts the last one successful to ascend Mt. Kina Balu. The greater part of the work comprises detailed observations on the natural history especially ornithology of the regions visited. The lower cover has been affected by damp. Cloth rubbed at one corner and slightly bubbled at spine. Prelims lightly spotted. The contents and plates are in excellent state. Very good. Very scarce. Gurney and Jackson, London. hardcover
