Scenery and reminiscences of Ceylon.
London, for the Author by Ackermann & Co., 1845
Deschamps was an Adjutant in the Royal Artillery who arrived in Sri Lanka in 1828 and spent nine years on the Island.
First edition; folio (50 x 34 cm), [iv], 48 pp., original hand coloured pictorial lithographed title (neat repairs to fore-edge), 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Deschamps all printed on thick paper (plates 1-4 with neat marginal restoration to fore-edge outside the image area, plate 3 with long tear into image with repair but no loss), original morocco-backed pictorial cloth boards gilt, spine renewed.
Abbey (Travel), 414; De Silva (Early Prints of Ceylon), pp 95-138.
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