Author: GUILLEMARD, F.H.H.
Title: The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with notes of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago. 2nd edition.
Description: London, John Murray, 1889. Original decorated cloth gilt. With 14 maps (5 folding), 28 plates and 111 woodengravings after J. Keulemans, C. Whymper, a.o. by E. Whymper. XIX,455 pp. With armorial bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill. - First published in London in 1886. - Account of an extensive cruise, January 1882 to April 1884, visiting the then lesser known lands and islands in Eastern waters. The Marchesa visited Formosa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Kamchatka, Bering Islands, Sulu Islands, British North Borneo, Lubuan and Brunei, Batavia, Celebes, the Moluccas, New Guinea and Amoboina, Banda and the Aru Islands. Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852 - 1933) was a reader of geography at Cambridge University, a traveller, writer and naturalist. He served as a naturalist on an expedition into Southeast Asia about which he wrote in his The Cruise of the Marchesa which became a popular travel book. Cat. KITLV p.6; Ferguson 10138b; Cordier, B.I., col..1472.
Keywords: Asia Formosa Indonesia Islands Japan Moluccas New Guinea
Title: The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with notes of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago. 2nd edition.
Description: London, John Murray, 1889. Original decorated cloth gilt. With 14 maps (5 folding), 28 plates and 111 woodengravings after J. Keulemans, C. Whymper, a.o. by E. Whymper. XIX,455 pp. With armorial bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill. - First published in London in 1886. - Account of an extensive cruise, January 1882 to April 1884, visiting the then lesser known lands and islands in Eastern waters. The Marchesa visited Formosa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Kamchatka, Bering Islands, Sulu Islands, British North Borneo, Lubuan and Brunei, Batavia, Celebes, the Moluccas, New Guinea and Amoboina, Banda and the Aru Islands. Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852 - 1933) was a reader of geography at Cambridge University, a traveller, writer and naturalist. He served as a naturalist on an expedition into Southeast Asia about which he wrote in his The Cruise of the Marchesa which became a popular travel book. Cat. KITLV p.6; Ferguson 10138b; Cordier, B.I., col..1472.
Keywords: Asia Formosa Indonesia Islands Japan Moluccas New Guinea
Price: EUR 302.50 = appr. US$ 328.77 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 1847
- Book number: 1847