 Van Der Post, Laurens. A Bar of Shadow.
London. The Hogarth Press. 1954. 8vo., First Edition, original cloth backed patterned boards, gilt spine, d/w chipped and rubbed at corners and edges and p/c, pp. 59, contents fine. U.S.$85
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  Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jean, Count de. Axel.
Translated by H.P.R. Finberg, with a preface by W. B. Yeats. London. Jarrolds Publishers. 1925. Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies and signed by the translator, 8vo., original white cloth with an elaborate pictorial design in gilt by Sturge Moore, incorporating the Crucifixion, medieval reliquary figures, suns and stars in orbit, lightning, a stylized rose, and a castle, all set within a elaborate gilt linear framework and border, and signed TSM, teg., illustrated by Sturge Moore, pp. 294, uncut, a fine copy. U.S.$875
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Vincent, Frank, Jun. The Land of The White Elephant sights and scenes in South-Eastern Asia. A personal narrative of travel and adventure in Farther India embracing the countries of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin-China (1871-2) with maps plans, and numerous illustrations.
Published: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1874
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Original Green Gilt Tooled Pictorial Cloth
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8vo., First American Edition, [ originally published in London the previous year], original green gilt pictorial cloth, corners and edges rubbed, wood engraved frontispiece and 33 tissue guarded plates, 3 maps and plans (2 double page, one hand-coloured) pp. xvi + 316 & 4 pages of publishers adverts, small bookplate on paste-down, overall a very good copy with the binding still bright.
(Cordier, Indosinica p.903; Satow 146)
Vincent (1848-1916) was a notable 19th century American travel writer. This account of his journeys in South East Asia in 1871 and 1872 is apparently the first description of the fabulous Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat by an American. The temples complex had only been popularized a decade earlier by the French explorer Henry Mouhot.
Starting in Burma, Vincent provides an account of his visit to Rangoon, the manners and customs of the Burmese, his trip up the Irrawaddy River to the old capital of Pagan and Mandalay, an audience with the King of Ava, and his white elephant and royal barges. From Burma, Vincent traveled overland through Shan and Lao populated areas of Northern Siam (Thailand) to Bangkok, and thence south along the peninsula to Malacca and Singapore. Returning north to Cambodia, Vincent visited Angkor and the great temple complex, had an audience with the King of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, and finished in Saigon in the French Indochinese province of Cochin (now southern Vietnam).
More rare books on Asia; Siam, Ava, Burma, Java, Angkor Wat etc.
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