The History of Java

The History of Java is a book written by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and published in 1817. It describes the history of the island of Java from ancient times.^[1]

The History of Java

Title page for The History of Java second edition (1830)
Author	Thomas Stamford Raffles
Language	English
Published	1817 (John Murray)
Publication place	England
Pages	xlviii + 479
OCLC	741754581

The first edition was limited to 900 copies and contained 64 etched or aquatint plates, of which 10 were hand-coloured aquatints by William Daniell depicting Javanese life and costume. A second edition followed in 1830. The book was reprinted from a digital master by the Cambridge University Press in 2010.

• Weapons

• Varieties of Javanese keris

• Machetes, maces, bow and arrows, blowpipe, sling

• Keris

• Short swords, shields, and a matchlock gun

• Batik

• A Javanese man in court dress

• A Javanese chief, in his ordinary dress

• A Javanese man in war dress

• A Javanese man of the lower class

• A Javanese ronggeng dancer

• The History of Java by Sir Stamford Raffles at the Internet Archive.
• The History of Java restored ebook at Google Books.