English intercourse with Siam in the seventeenth century

A$1,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner Co., 1890. Octavo, publisher s black-ruled orange cloth, gilt medallion for Trübner s Oriental series to upper board, spine lettered in gilt (shelf mark removed from foot of spine); private bookplate to upper pastedown, label removed from lower pastedown; pp. xiii, [blank], folding map printed in colour, 503, [blank], [16 advertisements, dated 1893]; internally clean, a very good copy. Very scarce account of English interaction with Siam in the seventeenth century. Cordier, Indosinica , 975 OCLC rather inexplicably locates no copies, although there are indeed copies in the British Library, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, SOAS Library, BnF, University of Toronto Library, and doubtless numerous other institutional collections. No sale record in the Rare Book Hub database since 1908.

• Binding: Hardcover

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