1859-1860 Ceylon, an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical

Description

Early Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in two volumes.

Volume I is present in the second edition, published in 1859, and volume II in the fourth edition, published in 1860.

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, and with a folding map, two plates of maps, and further vignette illustrations to volume I, and volume II with two folding maps, and further vignette illustrations and plans.

Collated, complete.

Volume I rebaked with back strip laid down, and endpapers renewed. Retaining half titles.

With twenty-four pages of advertisements to the rear of volume I.

An account of Sri Lanka, with chapters looking at its geology, climate, flora and fauna, history, religion and Buddhism, farming, commerce, art, science, and Portuguese, Dutch, and English influence. With further accounts of elephants, the forest, and ruined cities.

Written by Sir James Emerson Tennent, a Northern-Irish politician and Member of Parliament and Colonial Secretary in Ceylon.