£120
Small 4to, pp. [iv], 233, [3] + 30 double-sided photographic plates and 1 folding colour map, another folding colour map to pocket at rear as issued. Original black boards backed in black cloth, front board and spine lettered in red, front board with white, red and yellow flash stripes. Binding somewhat marked, a little rubbed to edges, a touch of wear to extremities. Ownership signatures of flyleaf, one dated 1936, small printed label to pastedown.
A scarce handbook to the various federated and unfederated states on the Malay peninsula that came under British control before the second world war, compiled by a Malayan civil servant. Library Hub records this edition in the BL only, who hold a run of six issues between 1926 and 1937; issues from other years are represented by a handful of holdings.
The binding of this book, as was common in British government publications going to colonies in Africa and Asia, was treated with a poisonous insecticidal solution, per the pastedown label.
