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COX, Hiram. Journal of a Residence in the Burmhan Empire and more particulary at the Court of Amarapoorah, London: John Warren and G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1821. 8° (212 x 126mm). Folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 4 plates, all by and after I.H. Newton. (Lacking half title, some text transposing from opposite page or light offsetting, occasional spotting or light browning.) Contemporary half calf (front cover detached, rear joint broken but cords holding, spine with 2 flaws, rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 402; Cox I, 347.
With 10 other works including José Nicolau da Fonseca's An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa (Bombay, 1878), Sketches of India; or, Observations descriptive of the scenery, &c. in Bengal (London, 1816, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek's (1827-75) copy), Sketches of India: written by an officer for fire-side travellers at home (London, 1824, second edition), and Donald Campbell's A Journey over Land to India (Philadelphia, 1797). (11)
With 10 other works including José Nicolau da Fonseca's An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa (Bombay, 1878), Sketches of India; or, Observations descriptive of the scenery, &c. in Bengal (London, 1816, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek's (1827-75) copy), Sketches of India: written by an officer for fire-side travellers at home (London, 1824, second edition), and Donald Campbell's A Journey over Land to India (Philadelphia, 1797). (11)
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