Reize in eenen palanquin; of lotgevallen en merkwaardige aanteekeningen op eene reize langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel. 2e druk.

Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1827.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Later half green calf, with red morocco spine labels, uncut. With 2 identical engraved title-pages depicting the author in a palanquin, 3 folding plates and 4 hand-coloured costume plates after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles (missing one of the two plates of the Devedaschie?). X,260; IV,289,(1) pp.Second edition, first published in Amsterdam in 1808. - Travels on the coasts of Orissa and Coromandel in 1808. Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66-67). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21). Tiele 434; Cat. NHSM I,p. 243; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 295; Landwehr, VOC, 348.