78/1009 [India]. Haafner, J. Reize in eenen palanquin; of lotgevallen en merkwaardige aanteekeningen op eene reize langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel. Amst., G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1827, 2nd ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., X,260; IV,289,(1)p., 2 ident. engr. titles, 4 handcol. costume plates, 3 fold. views, sl. later giltlettered hmor.

- Occas. waterst. (fold. plates and titles worse). Joints repaired w. cloth tape.

= The first edition was published in 1808. Tiele 434, note; cat. NHSM I, p.243.

Idem. Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar, naar het eiland Ceilon. Ibid., idem, 1826, 2nd ed., VIII,263p., engr. title w. ill. by R. VINKELES, contemp. hcl.

- Lacks the fold. plate; htitle and 1 textleaf dam. in inner blank margin; hinges split/ broken. Spine worn/ sl. dam. and soiled.

= De Silva/ Beumer p.461-462; cf. Tiele 433 and Landwehr, VOC 347 (other editions). "Haafner [1755-1809] started his literary activities very late in life. His first travel-book was published in 1806 in Haarlem: Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon. (...). The importance of Haafner's eyewitness accounts is that they were done during the decay of the VOC. Terpstra, in his analysis of Haafner's views on colonialism as expressed in his works, comes to the conclusion that Haafner was an anti-colonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed." (De Silva/ Beumer).