Blue cloth cover with slight wear to edges. Previous owners inscription (The octopus club 1933 members) to endpapers. Sporadic foxing mostly to end papers.

Authorised translation from the German by Walter Ijzendraat. Book clean and binding tight. DW chipped top and bottom and slightly worn.

Small closed tear to the front edge of the dw. Gift inscription on the fep.

2 Volume set .1801vol I. 1804 vol II .Half leather and marrble boards with wear to edges. First edition. Vol I has bookplate to marbled endpapers. Folding map of the Cape Colony strengthened with tape. Sporadic foxing. Vol II has bookplate to marbled endpapers. Sporadic foxing mostly to endpapers. dedication page has a sticker over a possible library number. Barrow went to the Cape of Good Hope as private secretary to Lord Macartney.

Text clean and unmarked. Past owner’s name in ink on front fep. Boards have a few dents at edges and corners bumped.

Final period ends in 1828. Ink inscription on front fep. Twenty-one folding coloured maps, folds reinforced with linen bands. Maps for Periods 18, 19 and 21 have tears that have been inexpertly repaired with paper tape. Some maps have soil marks, several have creases at free edge. Binding in very poor state: both covers and several pages at beginning and end are completely loose. General wear and soiling to most pages. Leather of boards very worn, missing from lower corners of front board and only remnants on spine.

Number 59 of 200 quarter leather deluxe bound copies, signed by the editor. Some minor shelfwear to the boards. Previous owner’s bookplate on inside front board. This is a large item that may incur extra postage.

An authentic narrative of travel and discoveries

A sympathetic account of the Balinese culture and people in the early 1940s. Small neat name and date in ink on title page. Text clean and binding firm. Spine and edges of boards slightly discoloured. DW has large tears with piece missing at upper edge of spine.

Odd volume, vol. II