Keppel Capt Henry (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Oswald W. Brierley (illustrator). with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C. B., 2 volumes complete, an unabridged facsimile of the edition published in 1853, a total of 8 full page color illustrations. Bound in softcover. A good set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oswald W. Brierley (illustrator). The 1853 edition. Large Octavo. 17cm x 25cm approx. xvii, [3] 586pp. Complete with the 8 tinted-lithograph plates and the large folding map. Contemporary marbled boards, calf corners, some rubbing and surface wear. Re-backed to match in tan calf, blind ruled with contrasting leather and gilt title label. Binding square and firm. Ex-private library: Torquay Society - stamps to title page. Occasional light spotting within. Some soiling to the margins of the plates. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library bound in publisher's brown cloth 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches with small loss at head of spine - otherwise complete with modest foxing internally and foldout map frontis.

Original cloth. Condition: Very good condition. Second edition. A bright, clean copy in the publisher's cloth, Volume II only. 8vo, original green patterned cloth, frontispiece, viii, 315pp, folding map at rear, with 24pp of publisher's advertisements dated June 1846. Complete. Spine slt. sunned, small split in the upper hinges near the head, easily repairable.

Third Edition. Very Good pp429 & 315. port. frontis. 9 tinted litho plates. 2 fold maps. fold. chart. original blind-stamped blue ribbed cloth gilt with spines relaid.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo, xii, 337, xxviii, viii, 230, cii (appendix at rear), 11 lithographed plates including frontispieces, 6 folding maps & plans, original blind-stamped blue ribbed cloth, neat repairs to spine extremities, a very good set. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo. 'In August 1841 Keppel commissioned the corvette Dido for the China station, where he served with distinction during the latter part of the First Opium War under Sir William Parker. When peace was made in August 1842 Keppel was sent to Singapore as senior officer on that part of the station. There he made friends with Sir James Brooke, with whom he returned to Sarawak. For eighteen months he co-operated with Brooke for the suppression of Borneo piracy, and, after many engagements, the Dido, together with the East India Company's steamship Phlegethon, destroyed the chief stronghold of the pirates, together with some 300 prahus' (ODNB). Hill 918.