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Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 0282259058ISBN 13: 9780282259051
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 400.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 0282528350ISBN 13: 9780282528355
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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 510 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 0332634078ISBN 13: 9780332634074
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 398 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0656384883ISBN 13: 9780656384884
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 508 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241517886ISBN 13: 9781241517885
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: INDYPUBLISH.COM, 2007
ISBN 10: 1428087540ISBN 13: 9781428087545
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 496 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Printed for the Author, By J. McCreery c. 1811, London, 1811
Anbieter: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Edition : Third Edition., Contemporary brown half calf with tan cloth boards. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on morocco label on 2 and 4. Gilt ornamentation on 1, 3, 5 and 6. Pasted and free maroon endpapers. , William Marsden (1754 ? 1836) was an English orientalist, linguist, numismatist, and pioneer in the scientific study of Indonesia, serving as first secretary of the Admiralty during years of conflict with France. Upon obtaining a civil service appointment with the East India Company at sixteen years of age, he was sent to Benkulen, Sumatra, in 1771. He was promoted to the position of principal secretary to the government, and acquired a knowledge of the Malay language and the country. This work is based upon his time in that area. , Size : 4to (267x210mm). , Illustrated with a plate of the various Sumatran alphabets. Binding is worn, and lacks the folding map and all the plates but one, otherwise the book is in good condition. Text is clean and crisp.
Anbieter: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (ILAB), Vianen, Niederlande
London, J. M'Creery, 1811. 4to. Later blue buckram (spine discoloured). With large folding engraved map and engraved plate of the Rajang, Batta, Lampoon alphabets. VIII,479,(9) pp.Third and best edition; first published in London in 1783; with the bookplate of Arthur Hereward Millard. - 'This book gave Marsden a reputation that still holds today. He was an orientalist, in the service of the East India Company (VOC), and resided in Sumatra in 1771-79. He studied everything that came under his notice, including the difficult Sumatran tongue'' (Cox I, p.300). His book is the first important monograph on Sumatra, including a chapter on Nias and also the first text in English devoted to the island. - (Without the atlas as usual). Wellan-Helfrich D 238; Howgego M55; Hill 1093.
Verlag: Printed for the author and sold by Thomas Payne, Benjamin White etc, London., 1783
Anbieter: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition. Quarto. pp viii, 375, [1], [5] Index, [1] Errata. Folding map as frontispiece. Period binding of full calf with gilt rules and red morocco label on spine.Covers rubbed and marked. Spine label worn. Very good, internally fine.
London 1783, Payne. Contemporary full leather, neatly re-backed, re-cornered, upper/lower edges bit worn, usual wear, else clean, very solid copy, 19 fine copper etchings, large folded etched map, index, 20.5 x 26.5 cm.FIRST EDITION William Marsden [1754-1836] was the first Englishman to study the Malayan area with great interest. He served some eight years with the East India Company in Sumatra, and later was one of the original founders of the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1812 he published a grammar and a dictionary of the Malay language [1812], and his later translation of Marco Polo in 1818. This HISTORY OF SUMATRA was the first serious English language attempt to fully describe that great island just off the coast of the Malayan peninsula. Marsden studied and learned Malayan, giving him a keen insight to the land and peoples of that area like no other Englishman. * This superb and early essay addresses a vast number of aspects of the late 18th century Sumatra, including a very good general description of the geological features, minerals, volcanoes, surf & tides, the inhabitants, clothing ornaments, women's dress, ornaments on virgins, filing of teeth, villages, buildings, utensils, food, agriculture, rice, coconut, betel, dye stuffs, a list of trees, fruits, flowers, medicinal shrubs and herbs. This section is of major use, as it addresses the medical plants and their use for curing illness. Animals, beasts, birds, insects, commercial products: pepper, camphor, caffia [cinnamon], cotton, rattan, coffee, gum, turpentine, varieties of wood: ebony, pine, sandal, eagle or aloes, teak, iron-wood, Banyan, &c. Minerals: gold, tin, copper, sulphur, other metals, bees-wax, ivory, bird nests and others. Arts and manufactures: art of medicine, sciences, arithmetic, geography, astronomy, and music. * Also essays on Malay language, its characters used, peculiar characters, specimens of language and alphabet, with charts; comparative state of Sumatran civil society, government, summary of the various laws, customs, power of the chiefs among the Rejangs, influence of Europeans. Remarks on the elucidation of the various laws and customs, modes of pleading, nature of evidence, oaths, inheritance, outlawry: theft, murder, compensation, account of feud, debts & slavery. Modes of marriage, customs, festivals, polygamy, divorce, incest, adultery, number of wives, purchase of wives; gaming, cock fighting, dice, opium smoking, effects of, piracy. Custom of chewing Betel, children, names, circumcision, funerals, religion, funerals, superstitions, veneration of ancestor's tombs. * The country of Lampoon, its inhabitants, language, government, wars, peculiar customs & religion. Malay governments: Empire of Menangcabow, extent of the Sultan's ancient & present power, his titles, literature and arts, conversion to Mahometanism [sic], constitution, states, Bencooler, Indrapour, Anac Soongey, Palembang, Jambee &c. The country of Batta, its productions, inhabitants, manners, government and some extraordinary customs. Kingdom of Achen, present state, commerce, air and soil, inhabitants, government, revenues, modes of punishments, history and the countries adjacent, from the period of their discovery by Europeans down to 1704. With lucid conclusions. * This is no ordinary late 18th century book, but rather the most comprehensive and copious primary resource on Sumatra done to date of publication, and has stood as the standard and classic work on this great Island and her people. * A NOTE ON CONDITION This copy has been professionally rebacked at an early date, perhaps a hundred or more years ago, retaining the raised bands, along with the four corners reworked at the same time. There is some leather oil bleed-through on the inside edges of the end-papers and first fly-leaf [front & back] from the original leather binding. The rebinding was done with the idea to preserve the original leather as much as possible. The lower edge of the front & rear covers are rubbed through, but the balance of the old leather binding is solid and intact. There is neat red pen underscore throughout, to emphasize important passages. The balance of the text is quite clean with a faint hint of occasional tiny fox spots which is of no major concern. This work is in its original large size, and printed on heavy-laid paper and is otherwise quite clean, it is very solid copy. It is complete with the index, which is often missing from other copies. The large folding map is 64 x 27.5 cm., has some pen underscore and outline with annotations perhaps showing the trek of the author's journey; a small dark spot where some old tape was, with a mend behind that, else folded to fit inside the book. We strive to be over-critical of our books of this period as a professional standard. In actuality, the book is in a bit better condition that we describe, going to extremes to point out any defects worthy of mention. By and large a good and very solid copy ! * REFERENCES: Per Hill, p.193: "Marsden's literary reputation was assured by the publication of his book, in 1783. It was welcomed in the Quarterly Review by Robery Southey as a model of descriptive composition." * Cox I p.300 * Howgego M55 * DNB 36, pp. 206-7 * Graesse IV, p.417. * Bastin-Brommer pp.2-3, and note 40 for more on these plates. * Hill p. 193. *.
Verlag: London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Thomas Payne., 1783., 1783
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. viii, 375, [6]index & errata. double-page folding engraved map (frontis.) & 1 engraved plate plate of the Rejang, Butta and Lampoon alphabets. contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco (corners worn, map trimmed to neatline, light dampstaining to inner margin of last leaves). First Edition of the first text in English devoted to Sumatra. Marsden, an orientalist in the service of the East India Company, spent eight years in Sumatra as sub-secretary and then secretary of the government at Fort Marlborough (Bencoolen). He is also known for his Dictionary and Grammar of the Malay Language (1812) and his translation of Marco Polo (1818). The present work was praised by Southey as a model of descriptive composition. Cox I p. 300. Howgego M55. cfHill p. 193.