1896 Through the Buffer State; A Record of Recent Travels through Borneo, Siam, and Cambodia

Description

Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce first edition. In a dark blue cloth variant, with depiction of an elephant to the centre of the front board. No binding priority is recorded.

Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and ten plates. Collated, complete.

Macgregor offers his observations after travelling in Borneo, Siam, and Cambodia, combining ethnographic and geographic observations, descriptions of local customs and landscapes, and reflections on political tensions.

With a publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated January 1896.

With a prize bookplate from Pearson's Weekly Magazine to the front pastedown. 

In a contemporary review, the Spectator commented that 'most of us would remember the description of the potentate, pensioned with a thousand dollars a day, who spends his time in the harem, smoking and drinking magnums of champagne'.