"The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia"

-Edited by J. R. Logan.

-Published Quarterly

-Singapore: printed for the editor by Jacob Baptist

-Issue II of Volume I New Series

-1856

-Complete Text of this issue [TP], 141-316, [End wrapper]

-Without the Map of Malacca sometimes found in this edition

-Stains to covers with creases and losses. Uncut copy and unbound. Back wrapper loose.

This is a complete issue, retaining original wrappers, of this foundational Singapore printed journal of early East Asian Science. This issue was printed by Jacob Baptist, an important early printer in Singapore.

The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia was founded by James Richardson Logan. It brought together ethnology, geography and commerce in the diverse port of Singapore which had British, Chinese, Malay, Indian and indigenous populations. This volume contains a broad range of articles including Dutch colonial activity, the Naning war, Raffles and Malacca.

Rare in original wrappers

Contains the following articles:

Notes of Dutch History in the Archipelago, Notes on Naning, with a brief notice of the Naning War by T. Braddell,  Bima and Sumbawa, Raffles and the Indian Archipelago, Notice of Mr Crawhord's Descriptive Dictionary, Map of Malacca, Anderson's Considerations, The Gambodge Tree