Stock ID #177844 The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak. CAPTAIN THE HON. HENRY KEPPEL.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak.

New York. Harper & Brothers. 1846. First American Edition. Stock ID #177844

Folding black and white map paper uniformly browned, xii + 414pp, two publisher's catalogues of 8 and 4 pages each bound in at rear, appendix. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt device, backstrip chipped and torn with loss as usual. Text sound and clean and binding tight.

After meeting James Brooke in Singapore, Captain Henry Keppel took the Rajah to the coast of Sarawak to engage in a campaign against piracy. Throughout the 1840s Captain Keppel was engaged in a number of campaigns against the pirates of Borneo. First American Edition (abridged, from the second London edition) of this first-hand account of the suppression of the Borneo pirate tribes in 1843-44 by Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, Keppel, and other commanders of the British ships of war.

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