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    Travel, Science & Natural History

    London, South Kensington

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    23 April 2008

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    Lot 516

    MARSHALL, Henry. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island and its Inhabitants. London: W.H. Allen, 1846. 8°. Lithographed map, hand-coloured in outline (margins a trifle browned). Original cloth (spine worn). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on an endpaper 'To Major Straith with best wishes from his friend Henry Marshall'; Church Missionary Society (stamp on title).

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    GBP 188

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    GBP 300 - GBP 500

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    MARSHALL, Henry. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island and its Inhabitants. London: W.H. Allen, 1846. 8°. Lithographed map, hand-coloured in outline (margins a trifle browned). Original cloth (spine worn). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on an endpaper 'To Major Straith with best wishes from his friend Henry Marshall'; Church Missionary Society (stamp on title).

    MARSHALL, Henry. Notes on the Medical Topography of the Interior of Ceylon; and on the Troops employed in the Kandyan Provinces. London: Burgess and Hill, 1821. 8°. 2 folding printed tables (some browning and foxing). Original boards, uncut (worn). (2)

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