The rare materials collection : selections from the National Library Singapore / edited by Francis Dorai and Veronica Chee.
Author(s): National Library Board (Singapore)
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The rare materials collection : selections from the National Library Singapore
- Publisher
- Singapore : National Library Board, 2017.
- Collation
- 118 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour)
29 cm. - ISBN
- 9789811129285
- Dewey Class
- 016.95957
- Contents
- Foreword -- The rare materials collection -- A tribute fit for a prince -- A missionary’s guide to Java and Bali -- Malaya through one man’s eyes -- An expat’s impressions of Singapore -- A bilingual dictionary by a Scotsman -- Crawfurd on Southeast Asia -- Notes on a little island -- A Portuguese map of Singapura -- Celebrating a centenary -- Logan’s journal -- Raffles’ letters of intrigue -- Raffles’ political manoeuvres -- The map that opened up Southeast Asia -- The book that almost didn’t happen -- A war crimes trials snapshot -- Propaganda paper -- Singapore’s first school -- Birds of the Malay Peninsula -- Legends of the Malay kings -- A bona fide history book -- A battle captured in a map -- A poetic travelogue in Tamil -- When Singapore was Cinca Pula -- A Chinese classic in Baba Malay -- A Singapore-made Qur’an -- Indian Muslim devotional poems -- English nursery rhymes with a Malay spin -- Stories of Abdullah -- The first English and Malay dictionary -- Of spells and magic -- Hear ye hear ye -- Singapore’s role in the Chinese revolution -- A handy cookbook -- A glimpse of 1930s Singapore -- About law and order -- A magazine for the Straits Chinese -- Through the eye glass -- The pulse of Malayan literature -- Early history of the Chinese community -- A dictionary that bridged two races -- Singapore in Sepia -- The gospel in Chinese -- The first public library -- A Christian sermon in Malay -- Cartoons of terror -- About Babas and the Chinese -- The first directory -- A colonial cookbook -- In aid of the motherland -- The first newspaper -- Index.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Singapore -- History -- Bibliography
Malaya -- History - BRN
- 9571
Notes
- Originally published as: Biblioasia. Vol. 11, issue 04 (Jan-Mar 2016).
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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016.95957 NLB
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