The History Of Sumatra, Containing An Account of the Government, Laws, Customs, and Manners Of the Native Inhabitants, With A Description of the Natural Productions, And A Relation of the Ancient Political State Of that Island
by MARSDEN, William [1754-1836]
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Thomas Payne., 1783., 1783. 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.. F.
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- D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)
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- Title
- The History Of Sumatra, Containing An Account of the Government, Laws, Customs, and Manners Of the Native Inhabitants, With A Description of the Natural Productions, And A Relation of the Ancient Political State Of that Island
- Author
- MARSDEN, William [1754-1836]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- F
- Publisher
- London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Thomas Payne., 1783.
- Date Published
- 1783
- Keywords
- FAR-EAST SUMATRA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Far-East;
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