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Gordon, Sir (Charles Alexander, 1820-1899, Knight)

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Charles Alexander Gordon, 'Our trip to Burmah [i.e. Myanmar], with notes on that country' (London, 1875)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029G
Scope and Contents A printed volume (now disbound) containing woodburytypes mounted as illustrations, most measuring approximately 140 x 90 mm, with letterpress captions. The views are of architecture and people of different ethnic origins.Surgeon General Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1820-1899) accompanied the Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army to Burma in December 1874 and the book records his observations of the country and its people.The prints included in the volume are not...
Dates: 1874 - 1875
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