BARROW, JOHN | A Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1806

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

BARROW, JOHN

A Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1806

4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 ins.; 270 x 210 mm). 19 hand-colored aquatint plates (one folding), engraved map and plan (both double page); folding plates cleanly separating at end folds. Contemporary calf; rebacked.

First edition. An account of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. Over half of this account deals with the voyage itself, describing (and often illustrating) Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, the strait of Sunda, Java and Batavia. There is considerable information on Indonesia (about 90 pages) and at the end of the account of Cochinchina there is ''annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802 to... the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of southern Africa'' (title-page).

REFERENCE:

Hill (2004) 66; Mendelssohn I p.143; Abbey, Travel 514; Borba de Moraes p.88