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Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the court of Ava

... with an appendix, containing a description of fossil remains by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift.

Stock Code 96762

London, Colburn, 1834

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By paddle steamer up the Irrawaddy river. Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the aftermath of the First Anglo-Burmese War. It was to be his last political service for the East India Company. The party included Adoniram Judson as interpreter and Nathaniel Wallich as botanist. Crawfurd's journey to Ava up the River Irrawaddy was by paddle steamer, the Diana. The mission was a success with Crawfurd negotiating a valuable trade treaty. On the return, the expedition made significant natural history discoveries.

Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, x, 541; viii, 319, [1], 163pp., large folding map, 2 plans (1 folding), 6 aquatint plates (4 folding), 5 vignettes in text, contemporary polished calf gilt, raised bands, apparently lacking half-titles, scattered spotting, map repaired, slight wear to extremities.

cf. Abbey (Travel), 405 (another edition).
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Provenance: Thomas Hardie Turnbull (bookplates signed D.G.E. Hall); William Lang (bookseller's label).

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Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the court of Ava

CRAWFURD, John.

Stock code: 96762

£1,500.00

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