A New Account of the East Indies
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with 8 maps (6 are folding), and 12 illustrations, original green linen-covered boards with vellum spines, gilt-embossed design on front covers and gilt-lettered spines,
Philippine article: vol. II, chapter LV, p. 157.
Philippine map: p.84
2 volumes, First publication of this limited edition: the text is that of the original Edinburgh edition of 1727. Facsimiles of original title-pages and of the only known letter of Alexander Hamilton. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir William Foster.
Cox.: “[Hamilton] followed a life of commercial adventure, sometimes as captain of a ship, sometimes as supercargo, sometimes in a ship of his own, or in one privately owned, sometimes in a ship of one or other of the rival companies….”; Hill: “This extremely important work treats the whole of the Orient”.
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new, uncut, unopened.