Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part I, A-C

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Lot 6
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Adamson, Charles Henry Ellison

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Description

  • Adamson, Charles Henry Ellison
  • A Short Account of an Expedition to the Jade Mines in Upper Burmah. Newcastle: J. Bell, 1889
  • PAPER
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (211 x 133mm.), [2], 66pp., folding map, brown cloth

Catalogue Note

An account of what the author describes as "the first European expedition to the celebrated Jade Mines" of Myanmar. Adamson was Deputy-Commissioner of Bhamo (a city of Kachin State in the northernmost part of Myanmar, then Burma). Rare. COPAC records just two copies (BL and SOAS).