Klubbat för:

12000 SEK

Estimate

7 000-9 000 SEK

Description

BURMA. SYMES, MICHAEL. An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795. London (printed by W. Bulmer an Co.) 1800.

4:o (about 320x250 mm.). (7), viii-xxiii, (1), (1)-503, (1) pp. 2 folding engraved maps (one with some ruptures at the plate marks), 26 engraved plates (all, 3 folding, minor foxing, partly some offsetting from plates to text).
Contemporary red half morocco, somewhat worn, marbled boards, gilt spine with the gilt monogram in upper part of Count Gustav Trolle-Bonde. Minor foxing.

Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1688.
First edition of one of the first monographs in English written on Burma.

From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).

Auktionsnummer:

6208

Date:

2017-11-21