Author: CRAWFURD, JOHN
Title: Journal of an Embassy from the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava. With an appendix, Containing a Description of Fossil Remains, by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift
Publication: London. Colburn. 2nd edition. 1834
Description:
2 volumes. Volume I: Large folding map, few closed tears neatly repaired, 6 plates (of which 4 are folding), one vignette in the text, 541pp. Volume II: Folding plan of Ava, one full page plate, 4 vignettes in the text, viii + 163pp.
Original blind stamped green cloth boards, volume I rebacked, original backstrip both with a little loss at head of spines laid down, cloth little worn at edges. Volume II rebound with original cloth laid down. Both volumes: new endpapers, embossed stamp "Manchester City Library 1854" frontispiece, title page and a few other leaves. Closed tear along gutter of frontispiece, not affecting the image, volume II. Text clean and sound. An attractive set.
Described by Patricia Herbert in her excellent bibliography 'Burma', as an account which ranks alongside those of Michael Symes and Henry Yule as a major description of the kingdom of Burma. Herbert 185.
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Seller ID: 152302
Subject: All Galleries, Antiquarian