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First edition of Ceylon by James Emerson Tennent, a scarce classic survey of Ceylon in the mid-nineteenth-century.
First edition of Ceylon by James Emerson Tennent, a scarce classic survey of Ceylon in the mid-nineteenth-century.
First edition of Ceylon by James Emerson Tennent, a scarce classic survey of Ceylon in the mid-nineteenth-century.
First edition of Ceylon by James Emerson Tennent, a scarce classic survey of Ceylon in the mid-nineteenth-century.

TENNENT, Sir James Emerson.

Ceylon. An account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions.

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859.

$1,717.00
$1,717.00

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The scarce first edition of this classic survey of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). As the work went through five editions in eight months it is not common to find a first edition in such condition.

Sir James Emerson Tennent lived in Ceylon from 1845-1850 and was appointed Colonial Secretary. Chapters include: geography, geology, zoology, malaria, history, science, agriculture and food, shipping, music and painting, infrastructure, Indian and Arabian influence, culture of the different cities, and a whole section on Elephants.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); wood-engraved frontispieces, 4 engraved maps with 3 more in text, 17 in-text plans and charts, 90 in-text wood engravings, largely unopened, armorial bookplates to pastedowns, discreet bookbinders ticket to rear pastedown of vol 1; publisher's original green cloth with gilt vignettes to upper boards, gilt lettering to spines, touch of mottling to lower board of vol 2, a near-fine copy; xxxv, 619, 24 (ads.); xvi, 655 pp.

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First edition of Ceylon by James Emerson Tennent, a scarce classic survey of Ceylon in the mid-nineteenth-century.

Ceylon.

$1,717.00
$1,717.00

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