Project Gutenburg is a source that may be helpful to some of us here looking for older books about the places the swords we study come from.
Here are just a couple of the titles there
Through Central Borneo:
An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters
Between the Years 1913 and 1917
Author: Carl Lumholtz
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8born10.txt
Wallace, Alfred Russel,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/1malay10.txt
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures
Author: J.H. Patterson 1907
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tsavo10.txt
Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet.
Captain Knight 1860
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/dpcat10.txt
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Fa-Hien (AD 519 ? Translated 1886)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2124/2124-h/2124-h.htm
History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2
Antonio de Morga ( 1609 ?? Translated and published in English 1904 )
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/7phip10.txt
The Bontoc Igorot
Albert Ernest Jenks
Manila 1905
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3308/3308-h/3308-h.htm
Just a taste there are many more, Unfortunately many ( but not all )of them are text only and the illustrations have not been included. Still interesting stuff. I hope they help someone here