Author

HAMILTON, Alexander.

Title

A new account of the East Indies,
being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-hope, and the Island of Japon. ...

Published, Date

Edinburgh : printed by John Mosman, and sold at the King's printing-house,1727.

Description

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo (19.6 x 11.6cm.), xx, x, 396; viii, 3-309, [1], 10pp., 8 folding engraved maps, 11 engraved plates (5 folding), contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, closed tear to the "Intra Ganges" map, spotting, Provenance: Library of the earls of Macclesfield, with blindstamped crest to titles, armorial book plate.

Note

Hamilton, a Scottish sea captain in the service of the East India Company, traded as far as Japan, visiting, it is said, every port between the Cape and Canton. This work, the only source for information on Hamiton, provides an account of his experiences and is one of the most important first-hand histories of English merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean and East Indies.

References

Goldsmiths 6522; Cordier, Indosinica 890; Mendelssohn (1979) II, 492.

Stock Number

73186