Burma past and present by Fytche 1878
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3000 SEK
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4 000-5 000 SEK
Beskrivning
BURMA. (2). FYTCHE, ALBERT. Burma Past and Present with personal Reminiscences of the Country. I-II. London (C. Kegan paul & Co.) 1878.
8:o. (7, including frontispiece), viii-xiv, (2), (1)-355, (1 blank), (5, including frontispiece plate, one of the chromolithographs), vi-viii, (2), (1)-348 pp. Steelengraved frontispiece portrait, 1 folding coloured engraved map (mended large tear), 1 engraved portrait, 13 plates (2 dampstained in lower margin), of which 10 chromolithographs. 5 illustrations in text (3 full-page).
Contemporary red half leather, worn, cracks in the joints, gilt spines, remnants of labels at foot of spines, redspeckled edges. Some minor foxing. 2 volumes.
Written in the form of an autobiography, the work gives much information of early British-Burmese relations. The author served as Chief Commissioner of British Burma from 1867 to 1871.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6298
Datum:
2015-06-16