The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia. A Personal Narrative of Travel and Adventure in Farther India, Embracing the Countries of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin-China. (1871-2).
London. Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle. 1873. Stock ID #212777 "This record of an American's travels in Southeast Asia includes a section on Burma with details of the author's audience with King Mindon who invited him to enter his service (Vincent's comment on which was: 'perhaps he wished Americans to settle in Burma as a sort of political offset to the English'). When referring to this item please quote stockid 212777.
Folding colour linen backed map, folding plan, 32 black and white full page engravings including frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous black and white engravings in the text, xix + 316pp, some foxing mainly to margins and offsetting to plates, one full page plate closely cropped causing partial loss of caption, ex New South Wales Parliamentary library copy in attractive half leather binding with marbled edges and endpapers, 19th century gilt library stamp upper cover and tail of spine, leather little marked and lightly worn but a very good firm copy. Herbert 56.
Price: $500.00 AU