Monumental navigational directory of Eastern Asia

Findlay, Alexander George. A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago and the Coast of China, From the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Passages East of Java, to Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Korea. With the Descriptions of the Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, and General Instructions for the Various Channels, Harbours, etc. Third Edition.

London, Richard Holmes Laurie, 1889.

Royal 8vo. XLVIII, IV, 1478 pp. + (2), 8 pp. of publisher's catalogue. With 11 folded maps and charts. Publisher's original full cloth, blindstamped and with gilt lettering.

 2,500.00

Third edition of Findlay's monumental navigational directory of Eastern Asia, including the Straits of Malacca, Sunda, and Singapore, the east coast of Sumatra, the Gulf of Siam (now Thailand), the coasts of Cochin China, Tonkin, Borneo, the Philippines, the China Sea, Java and the Java Sea, the islands, the coast of China, Hong Kong, Formosa (Taiwan), Shanghai, and Korea.

Inner front hinge reinforced, but clean and fine. Stamps of the Royal Danish Navy Library and the Royal Danish Maps and Charts Archive on title-page. Rare: OCLC lists a single copy (in the National Library of Sweden).

References

OCLC 940735103.

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