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IMPORTANT WORK ON THAILAND SMYTH, H. WARRINGTON. Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896. 15 plates, 9 maps, and text illustrations. 2 volumes. 8vo,
IMPORTANT WORK ON THAILAND SMYTH, H. WARRINGTON. Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896. 15 plates, 9 maps, and text illustrations. 2 volumes. 8vo, original pictorial cloth, extremities rubbed, spines somewhat dulled, few minor surface imperfections; front hinges cracked, Volume 1 faintly dampstained on endpapers affecting preliminaries through frontispiece, Volume 2 frontispiece loose, soil mark on rear pastedown affecting last few leaves; both with evidence of removed bookplates on front pastedowns. London, 1898
- Notes: first edition of a rare and important work on late-nineteenth-century Thailand. Smyth spent some years in Thailand as director of the Department of Mines, and his well-illustrated account of the country, then under the rule of King Chulalongkorn, describes the prosperous last years free of colonial controls.
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