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Siam - General and Medical Features -
1930 - Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine, Bangkok - First Edition
‘Deals primarily with medical matters in Thailand and provides information regarding medical education, public health and medical services, together with summary accounts about the government and administration, Siamese history, religion, literature, archaeology, fine arts, and education.’ - [Cecil Hobbs Southeast Asia: An annotated bibliography 106]
With 65 illustrations, two maps (railways of Siam and Bangkok waterworks), 26 tables, chart and three diagrams.
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1930 - Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine, Bangkok - First Edition
‘Deals primarily with medical matters in Thailand and provides information regarding medical education, public health and medical services, together with summary accounts about the government and administration, Siamese history, religion, literature, archaeology, fine arts, and education.’ - [Cecil Hobbs Southeast Asia: An annotated bibliography 106]With 65 illustrations, two maps (railways of Siam and Bangkok waterworks), 26 tables, chart and three diagrams.
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River And Jungle -
Edward Ellis
C. 1906 - The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia - Later Edition
A boy’s own story of adventure of Master Dudley Mayson in Burmah,the Kingdom of Ava. Illustrated with black and white plates by Edwin J. Prittie.
The frontispiece plate titled ‘Helpless in the grasp of the tornado’ sets the scene.
Written by the prolific Ellis, this is volume II of the Foreign Adventure Series, first published in 1906
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C. 1906 - The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia - Later Edition
A boy’s own story of adventure of Master Dudley Mayson in Burmah,the Kingdom of Ava. Illustrated with black and white plates by Edwin J. Prittie. The frontispiece plate titled ‘Helpless in the grasp of the tornado’ sets the scene.
Written by the prolific Ellis, this is volume II of the Foreign Adventure Series, first published in 1906
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The Far Eastern Tropics: Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies - SIGNED -
Alleyne Ireland
1905 - Houghton, Boston and New York - First Edition
A near fine copy, with chapters on Hong Kong, Borne, Sarawak, Burma, French Indo-China, Jave, the Philippine Islands, etc.
Inscribed by the author and dated 1908. With colour fold out map of ‘The Far Eastern Tropics’ in fine condition housed in pocket at rear.
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1905 - Houghton, Boston and New York - First Edition
A near fine copy, with chapters on Hong Kong, Borne, Sarawak, Burma, French Indo-China, Jave, the Philippine Islands, etc.Inscribed by the author and dated 1908. With colour fold out map of ‘The Far Eastern Tropics’ in fine condition housed in pocket at rear.
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The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet. -
R. Lydekker. J. G. Dollman
1924 - Rowland Ward, London - Second and Best Edition Revised by J. G. Dollman
The definitive work on the big game species of South Asia, Lydekker describes in detail the natural history and habitat of game types. He also includes numerous sporting vignettes and observations culled from the writings of sportsmen of the era.
Nine full page plates, four folding plates, and fifty seven text illustrations many full page.
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1924 - Rowland Ward, London - Second and Best Edition Revised by J. G. Dollman
The definitive work on the big game species of South Asia, Lydekker describes in detail the natural history and habitat of game types. He also includes numerous sporting vignettes and observations culled from the writings of sportsmen of the era. Nine full page plates, four folding plates, and fifty seven text illustrations many full page.
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The Story of a Working Man's Life: With Sketches of Travel in Europe, Asia, Africa and America -
Francis, D.D. Mason
1870 - Oakley, New York - First Edition
A British immigrant to America, Francis Mason [1799-1874] traveled throughout the United States in the first decades of the 19th century, before becoming a Baptist missionary to the Karen tribes of Burma, where he remained for most of his life, conducting a training college for native teachers, translating the Bible into Karen dialects and writing a classic natural history of Burmese flora and fauna. Most of this autobiography concerns his life and work in Burma, where he died four years after its publication.
Illustrated with woodcut plates, including frontispiece.
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1870 - Oakley, New York - First Edition
A British immigrant to America, Francis Mason [1799-1874] traveled throughout the United States in the first decades of the 19th century, before becoming a Baptist missionary to the Karen tribes of Burma, where he remained for most of his life, conducting a training college for native teachers, translating the Bible into Karen dialects and writing a classic natural history of Burmese flora and fauna. Most of this autobiography concerns his life and work in Burma, where he died four years after its publication.Illustrated with woodcut plates, including frontispiece.
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A Game-Book for Burma & Adjoining Territories -
Edgar H. Peacock
1933 - H. F. & G. Witherby, London - First Edition
In this rare and ‘extensive survey of the natural history of Burma’s big game, Peacock adds vignettes of sporting encounters while employed as a forest and game warden in that country.
Among the species of note are elephant, gaur, banteng, tiger, Sumatran rhinoceros, panther, serow, and a variety of deer and game birds. He also includes chapters on choosing a proper rifle and preserving trophies.’ - Czech (Asia 158).
From his beginnings as a game warden in Burma Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Henry William Peacock DSO MC and bar went on to have a distinguished career as a British Officer commanding special forces operations behind Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War.
Illustrated with frontispiece, 25 plates and a folding map.
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1933 - H. F. & G. Witherby, London - First Edition
In this rare and ‘extensive survey of the natural history of Burma’s big game, Peacock adds vignettes of sporting encounters while employed as a forest and game warden in that country. Among the species of note are elephant, gaur, banteng, tiger, Sumatran rhinoceros, panther, serow, and a variety of deer and game birds. He also includes chapters on choosing a proper rifle and preserving trophies.’ - Czech (Asia 158).
From his beginnings as a game warden in Burma Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Henry William Peacock DSO MC and bar went on to have a distinguished career as a British Officer commanding special forces operations behind Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War.
Illustrated with frontispiece, 25 plates and a folding map.
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Big Game Shooting in India, Burma, & Somaliland -
Colonel V. M. Stockley
1913 - Horace Cox, London - First Edition
The author provides information on how to bag tiger, including his preferences to standing in a machan as opposed to sitting. His own experiences with the big felines occurred in India’s Central Provinces near the Pyne Ganga and Warda Rivers, and in Upper Burma. Of added interest are his sketches of his tiger hunting strategies.
With chapters on hunting bear and gaur in Chanda, bison between Indrawatti and Bandia Rivers, and elephant near the Irrawaddi River in Burma. He also includes chapters on stalking yak in Tibet, ibex in Kashmir, and a variety of deer species including sambur, barasingh, and spotted deer. There is also a chapter on pigsticking.
Stockley was killed by a buffalo while hunting in Africa.’ - Czech (Asia 204).
Illustrated with frontispiece, eight plates, text illustrations and a map in the text.
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1913 - Horace Cox, London - First Edition
The author provides information on how to bag tiger, including his preferences to standing in a machan as opposed to sitting. His own experiences with the big felines occurred in India’s Central Provinces near the Pyne Ganga and Warda Rivers, and in Upper Burma. Of added interest are his sketches of his tiger hunting strategies.With chapters on hunting bear and gaur in Chanda, bison between Indrawatti and Bandia Rivers, and elephant near the Irrawaddi River in Burma. He also includes chapters on stalking yak in Tibet, ibex in Kashmir, and a variety of deer species including sambur, barasingh, and spotted deer. There is also a chapter on pigsticking.
Stockley was killed by a buffalo while hunting in Africa.’ - Czech (Asia 204).
Illustrated with frontispiece, eight plates, text illustrations and a map in the text.
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The Sea Gypsies of Malaya: An Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago with a Description of Their Ways of Living, Customs, Habits, Boats, Occupations, &c., &c., &c. -
Walter Grainge White
1922 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First Edition
An extensive survey of the nomadic Mawken [Morgan or Moken] sea gypsies, who were spread throughout the Andaman Sea up through the Mergui Archipelago of Burma, during a time when their way of life was becoming increasingly influenced and changed through contact with outsiders. They speak their own language and number a few thousand only [2009].
Walter White studied these peoples for many years, writing on their language and customs, this, together with White’s 1911 An intorduction to the Mawken Language this is one of the earliest works focussed on the Mawken.
Illustrated with 20 photographic plates and a folding map at the rear.
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1922 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First Edition
An extensive survey of the nomadic Mawken [Morgan or Moken] sea gypsies, who were spread throughout the Andaman Sea up through the Mergui Archipelago of Burma, during a time when their way of life was becoming increasingly influenced and changed through contact with outsiders. They speak their own language and number a few thousand only [2009].Walter White studied these peoples for many years, writing on their language and customs, this, together with White’s 1911 An intorduction to the Mawken Language this is one of the earliest works focussed on the Mawken.
Illustrated with 20 photographic plates and a folding map at the rear.
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