Beschreibung
Performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, During the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776 to which is added, A Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue. Large Quarto. [320mm x 250cm] xxiii, 368pp 13p, [1] [1] Complete Copy with engraved Portrait after Sherwin, large folding map and 30 engraved plates and plans, most folding, many featuring coastal profiles accompanied by detailed charts. Presentation Copy to Robert Riddell 1780. Finley Bound later half brown morocco, gilt ruled, raised bands. [ before entering the service of the East India Company Forrest had served in the Royal Navy, seeing action in 1757 under George Pocock against the French in the Bay of Bengal. The year 1762 found him in command of a company ship, "from which he seems to date his experience when, writing in 1782, he spoke of himself as having been more than twenty years in 'the country trade', and as having made fifteen voyages from Hindustan to the East, and four voyages from England to India" (ODNB). In 1770 he pioneered the settlement at Balembangan at the eastern tip of Borneo and from here set out in 1724 in a native prahu renamed the Tartar accompanied by two English officers and 18 Malays. "In this unlikely craft he pushed further east than any of his company predecessors, eventually reaching Geelvinks Bay on the north coast of New Guinea. Hill 623. FINE UNCUT PRESENTATION COPY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 685
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Titel: A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, ...
Verlag: Printed by G.Scott; and sold by J. Robson; J. Donaldson; G. Robinson [ London], and J. Bell, Edinburgh,, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1779
Auflage: First Edition
