Correspondence Respecting Direct Commerce with the West of China from Rangoon.

Published by London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1865

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First edition, containing several detailed reports of British expeditions undertaken in the early 1860s in search of a route into China via the Irrawaddy or Salween rivers. Among the papers is a long 1864 memorandum (pp. 68-82) by Dr Clement Williams (1833-1879), the first political agent in Mandalay, which draws on his explorations of the Irrawaddy. He argues strongly in favour of a trade route running by steamer along the river as far as Bhamo and onwards to Yunnan by road. Williams subsequently published Through Burmah to Western China (1868) and joined the Sladen Expedition of the same year. Two other accounts are by Lieutenants Gideon Colquhoun Sconce (pp. 32-51) and C. E. Watson (pp. 55-66), who both surveyed the upper course of the Salween between November 1863 and March 1864. Large quarto (321 x 204 mm). Tables in text. Recent blue limp card wrappers, printed title label on front cover. Ex-All Souls College, University of Oxford, with its 19th-century ink stamp on list of papers; leaves foliated in pencil. Light foxing and creasing: very good.…

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Title
Correspondence Respecting Direct Commerce with the West of China from Rangoon.
Author
BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA.
Publisher
London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1865
Edition
1st Edition

Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.

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