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Asia - BARROW (John). A Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793: containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom; and also of such European settlements as were visited on the voyage: with sketches of the manners, character, and condition of their several inhabitants : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated : the facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal with a chart of the route. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. In-4 of xviii pp., [1] f., 447 pp. Brown basane, broad ribbed spine, title page, gilt garland frame and double cold fillet over boards, marbled boards (rel. post.). Spine and boards sunned. Paper slightly browned. Minor spotting. First edition illustrated with 20 aquatint-engraved and enhanced plates and a double-page map with enhanced contours. John Barrow, who had taken part in Lord Macartney's embassy to China, published this interesting description of the countries visited during the voyage in 1806: Madeira, the Canaries, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia... It includes an important account of a voyage to the Boushouanas, describing a region of South Africa as yet unknown, as well as a description of the island of Java and Cochinchina (southern Vietnam), for which this is the first illustrated account. Ex-libris Franck Villard.

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Asia - BARROW (John). A Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793: containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom; and also of such European settlements as were visited on the voyage: with sketches of the manners, character, and condition of their several inhabitants : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated : the facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal with a chart of the route. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. In-4 of xviii pp., [1] f., 447 pp. Brown basane, broad ribbed spine, title page, gilt garland frame and double cold fillet over boards, marbled boards (rel. post.). Spine and boards sunned. Paper slightly browned. Minor spotting. First edition illustrated with 20 aquatint-engraved and enhanced plates and a double-page map with enhanced contours. John Barrow, who had taken part in Lord Macartney's embassy to China, published this interesting description of the countries visited during the voyage in 1806: Madeira, the Canaries, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia... It includes an important account of a voyage to the Boushouanas, describing a region of South Africa as yet unknown, as well as a description of the island of Java and Cochinchina (southern Vietnam), for which this is the first illustrated account. Ex-libris Franck Villard.

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