The recent operations of the British forces at Rangoon and Martaban

by Thomas Turner Baker, Rev

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Thomas Hatchard, 1852. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. vii, 1 , 78; lithograph frontispiece, 3 lithograph plates 2 folding ; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; the binding a bit spotted and worn, but in all a good, sound copy, or better. A reliable eye-witness account of the first three months of the second Anglo-Burmese War by the late chaplin and naval instructor of the H.M.S. Fox who succumbed to cholera. Wikipedia notes: In 1852, Commodore

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