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Paperback or Softback. Zustand: New. The Burmese Empire a Hundred Years Ago, as Described by Father Sangermano. with an Introduction and Notes by J. Jardine [And Preface to the First Edit. Book.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Hard cover book in fair condition. No dust jacket. Ex-library book with mark to spine and bookplate on front paste-down. Damage to head and foot of spine with significant splits to cloth. Front and rear hinges split to head. Browning to endpapers. Significant foxing to lightly tanned pages throghout. Folio. vi, 224pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. 8vo. pp. xxxix, 311; carelessly opened at pp. 77-80 with loss to upper margins (not affecting text), a few words on p. 127 inked out, else very good in the original red cloth, gilt, this copy extra-illustrated with two original photographs, each approx. 150 x 110mm., pasted to front blanks: "Sishaw women 300 miles above Magok, 1896" and "Pagoda Pingu Taung 1896". …

Sangermano, a missionary, worked in Burma from 1783 to 1806. His book provides a good description of Burma at that time. This English translation of 1833 is sought after. Mary Richardson Currer is probably the best-known woman book collector of the nineteenth century. Her books are generally in very attractive condition. First edition in English, 4to., viii, 224 pp., device on title, light browning to tile and occasionally elsewhere, contemporary half calf gilt, morocco label, lightly rubbed, a very good copy. Provenance: Frances Mary Richardson Currer (bookplate).…

4to. Pp. viii, 224. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered in gilt, hinges cracked and front cover detached, extremities worn. Traces of an erased stamp on title page. First edition of this early and accurate work on Burma, reprinted many times. Father Sangermano, an Italian Barnabite missionary, lived and served in Rangoon 1783 to 1808. He was one of the earliest Christian missionaries to study the language and literature of the people. Cordier BI 3.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. folio. pp. vi, [2], 224. A fine copy in modern quarter oasis morocco, all edges gilt (3 library blindstamps, rubberstamp on verso of title). First Edition of the English Translation. Father Sangermano was a Barnabite missionary at Rangoon from 1783 to 1808. There he completed the building of the church of St. John and constructed a successful missionary college, which he superintended until his departure. Sangermano was greatly esteemed by the natives of Rangoon as well as by visiting foreigners, particularly the English. The present work contains translations of authentic Burmese writings including a cosmography, a history of the kingdom (Maharazaven), and classical writings concerning the superstitions, astrology, religion, and other aspects of native culture. Also included are chapters on government, revenue and taxes, army and military discipline, literature and science, natural resources, and currency and commerce.…

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