An early American embassy to the East

VIETNAM - SIAM - OMAN. ROBERTS, EDMUND. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat, in the U. S. Sloop-of-War Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, in the Years 1832-3-4. New York (Harper & Brothers) 1837.

8:o. (5), 6-432 pp.
Original green cloth, worn, with damaged paper label to spine. Endpaper foxed and browned, text foxed and spotted as usual. Old signature on title.

First edition of this important account of an early American embassy to the East.

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

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