The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands;

Sir Henry Middleton (d. 1613) was an English captain and adventurer for the East-India Company, like his two brothers.

Henry was taken on at the Woolwich ship yards working first on the EIC's Red Dragon (plate 2), in preparation for the EIC's first expedition to "East India". The prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer James Lancaster was to command the four ships. Second in command was Middleton's brother John, a company captain who secured Henry as a mercantile agent with a berth on the voyage. They set off in April 1601 arriving in Aceh, Sumatra in June 1602.

This work is the account of his second voyage in 1604. Middleton commanded the voyage heading for the islands of Ternate, Tidore, Ambon and Banda in the Moluccas with his brother David Middleton as second captain. They would encountered severe Dutch East India Company hostility, which saw the beginning of Anglo-Dutch competition for access to spices.

Hakluyt Society First series, vol. IX; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); 1 map, 1 plan, 4 plates, ex libris Inner Temple Library with bookplates and stamps, withdrawn stamp to title, small marginal water stain to 3 plates; original publisher's gilt blue cloth, old dampstaining to boards, spine darkened with head slightly chipped, a good copy; 8, [8], xii, [4], 83, 52, viiipp.