major snodgrass (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Owner's name.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Little later marbled half leather binding, xvi, 319 pages, 1 folding map, 3 engraved plates (instead of 2 called for - there are two copies of one of the plates bound in), marbled endpapers and marbled edges, contemporary bookplate of the Naval and Military Club, rebackedd in style, map partially misfolded, repaired tear starting at the hinge (no loss), a very clean copy with almost now foxing. 2nd edition in the same year as the 1st. Quite uncommon book about the first British Burma war, the British East India Company annexed territory in Assam an Manipur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Second edition, of book originally published earlier the same year. Octavo, pp xvi, 319, with a folding steel engraved map of Burma facing p1 and two engravings, one at frontispiece. Bound in contemporary half brown Morocco with marbled paper covered boards and marbled pattern edges to the page block. A contemporary account of the First Burmese War, written on from the author's diary notes during the voyage back to England. This second edition includes a new and additional preface wherein the author refutes comments and conclusions of an un-named reviewer who criticised certain aspects of this book. In Good Plus condition, occasional spotting and browning, the map is moderately browned, front board beginning to pull from the spine at the top, otherwise the binding is tight and the book is square, leather spine and corners rubbed.

22.5cm, xvvii,320p., 3 illustrations including frontis, large folding map of Burmese Empire, rebound in modern pebbled cloth over speckled paper boards, paper label on spine, very good to fine thus.

First edition. 8vo, xii, 319 pp., large folding map (foxed), 2 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rebacked and cornered to style, green morocco label, a very good copy. Contemporary account of the First Burmese War. Cf. Cordier, Indosinica, page 450.