Raffles, Thomas Stamford (sir) (lt. Governor Of The N.E.I., 1811-1816), - The History Of Java. Second Edition.

London, Murray, 1830/H.C. Bohn, 1844. 2 text-volumes, small stout 8°, recent calfbacked original blind tooled red coloured boards panes. (xiv), 332; (clxxix) (xiv), 536pp. Index. WITH ATLAS volume. Small 4°. contemp. calfbacked marbled boards, richly gilt decorated boards, marbled ep's.:Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape illustrations of the History of Java.. London, H.C. Bohn, 1844. 92 plates, of which 10 fine handcoloured aquatints featuring Javanese male and female traditional dress drawn by Wm. Daniell, 5 black/white lithographed plates feature Javanese weapons (Keris, Lances), 1 plate with wayang topèng-masks and wayang kulit figures, plates with music-scores, plans and sketches of temple-complexes, linguistic plates, etc. Large folded lithographed map of Java, with legenda & some smaller inset-maps, etc. BASTIN/BROMMER N.103. A copy of the 2nd and best edition of this magnum opus by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, being a History of Java, with the rarerely found so-called Bohn-Atlas published 14 years after the text-volumes, with 22 more plates, NOT published in the 1817 first edition. Very good complete set, without the usual foxing to contents of Atlas.