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Symes, Michel
Relation de l'ambassade anglaise, envoyee en 1795 dans le royaume d'Ava, ou l'Empire des Birmans, 1800
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Paris, Buisson, an IX (1800). Only the volume in 2 ° with the tables. Frontispiece, "LIste des cartes et planches", with 28 (of 30) plates finely engraved in copper and protected by vellum, once folded and numbered with Roman numerals, blooms and damp halos, coeval knurling binding, ruined.
Specialist Notes
First French edition of the only volume of the plates engraved by Tardieu, Delignon, Niquet and Delvaux. They depict monasteries, palaces, costumes, boats, plants, etc. One shows how to capture wild elephants in the forests of Burma and two others represent the indigenous people of Mozambique. The British officer and diplomat Michael Symes (1760-1809), spent 10 months in Burma and at the end of his trip he signed a commercial treaty with the Burmese. & Nbsp;