BUCKLEY, Charles Burton.

An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore. (With portraits and illustrations). From the foundation of the settlement under the Honourable the East India Company, on February 6th, 1819, to the transfer to the Colonial Office as part of the colonial possessions of the crown on April 1st, 1867.

Singapore, Fraser & Neave Limited, 1902. 2 vols, 8vo (240 x 150 mm), pp. [ii], xii, [ii], 406; [ii], [407]–790, xxii, with a folding map and 17 plates; slightly browned; modern quarter morocco. First edition, limited to 750 copies only. One of the principal sources for the study of Singapore in the nineteenth century, with much on the traders active there in the early days of the colony. ‘This book is in great part a revision with many additions of a series of articles which appeared under the same title in the weekly Singapore Free Press newspaper, from the time I re-established that paper in 1884 until it became a daily paper in 1887, when I gave it over into other hands’ (author’s preface).Cordier, Indosinica 1186.

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