A New Account of the East Indies

Description

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,
PH: vol. II, chapter LV, p. 157
PH map: p.84
2 volumes, published by The Argonaut Press in London.
First publication of this 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”