Beekman - Voyage To And From The Island Of Borneo. With A New Introduction By Chin Yoon Fong. Reprint Edition.

Folkestone & London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. Small 8°., original cloth, title label in gilt on spine. 4LL of a new introduction, 205pp. 2 fold. plates, some full-page plates, fold. sketch-map, all facsims. after the original copper engraved plates, some tables in text, original publ. list on 2LL at very end, publ. serial list facing new ti.-p., footnotes to the new introduction. [The Colonial History Series, no. 87, D.H. Simpson, general editor]. In 1713 the new East India Company despatched the Eagle Galley under the command of J. Beacher and D. Beekman on an expedition to Banjarmasin (reputed to be a lucrative source of pepper and other eastern produce) in Southern Borneo. This trip took a year to complete and Beekman's observations and experiences in the region were of utmost importance to the then rapidly expanding trade with China. Originally published in 1718, this reprint is still of great value to history. Very fine copy, NO dusjtacket. Rather scarce.