Voyages.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793, first edition, preface misbound after other preliminaries, 19 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Alexander and Daniell (1 double-page, 2 of fruit printed in colours and finished by hand), 2 double-page engraved charts with partial hand-colouring, both with offseting, light offsetting from plates, bookplate of Serjeantson of Hanlith, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine gilt with black roan label, slightly rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 514; Tooley 86], 4to, 1806. ⁂ The first illustrated English work on what was then Cochin China, now known as Vietnam. The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Tristan da Cunha, reaching Cochin China via Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. The supplementary article covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa and the "Booshuana Nation".
Voyages.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793, first edition, preface misbound after other preliminaries, 19 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Alexander and Daniell (1 double-page, 2 of fruit printed in colours and finished by hand), 2 double-page engraved charts with partial hand-colouring, both with offseting, light offsetting from plates, bookplate of Serjeantson of Hanlith, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine gilt with black roan label, slightly rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 514; Tooley 86], 4to, 1806. ⁂ The first illustrated English work on what was then Cochin China, now known as Vietnam. The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Tristan da Cunha, reaching Cochin China via Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. The supplementary article covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa and the "Booshuana Nation".
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