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Michael Symes : An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795. By Michael Symes, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel in His Majesty’s 76th Regiment... Collection of Engravings

J. Debrett, London, 1800

Full contemporary speckled calf with fine gilt tooled border and edges and blind-tooled inner dentelles. Flat spine in six gilt tooled compartments with floral motif, red morocco label on two. Edges speckled blue, endpapers marbled. , Boards slightly worn, otherwise a remarkably fine and fresh copy, published on thick paper plates are clean and crisp., 4to, P. 3 ff., title, blank, contents iii-iv, 28 plates, 3 ff., Complete with 26 plates and 2 maps of Southeast Asia.

This is the beautifully illustrated atlas volume to the second edition of Symes’s “Embassy to Ava”.
“According to Pinkerton this is the only satisfactory account of Burma till then published. Symes’s embassy resulted in leave being given to the “Emperor of Ava” for a British Resident to reside at Rangoon to protect British subjects.” (Cox)
The plates depict dress, architecture, and plantlife in Southeast Asia.
, Cox I:309

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