1860 My Journal in Malayan Waters; or, the Blockade of Quedah

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Source, Publishers' Original Binding

The second edition, originally titled 'Quedah, A Cruise in Japanese Waters & The Fight on the Peiho'. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, a hand coloured folding map, two monochrome plates, and one coloured plate. Collated, complete. 

Sherard Osborne's account of his voyage in Malayan waters and his part in the blockade attack on Kadah, where he was in command of the gunboat. Osborn was a Royal Navy admiral and a noted Arctic explorer. The work provides a view of India in the early nineteenth century, an account of an encounter with pirates, a detailed account of the attack, a chapter on the Malay slave trade, and much more. 

In the publisher's original cloth, re-backed with the original spine laid down.