A Dissertation On The Soil Agriculture Of The British Settlement Of Penang Or Prince Of Wales

by Captain James Low

$6,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Original cloth backed. Blue paper boards. Rare Singapore imprint by the earliest serious Western scholar of the Thai language and a pioneering observer of Siam. Captain James Low was a Madras Army officer posted to Penang from 1819 and the earliest sustained Western scholar of the Thai language and Siamese culture. Educated at Edinburgh, he learned Malay and Thai, served on missions along the Andaman coast notably to the Raja of Ligor in 1824 , compiled

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