South East Asia.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793, first editio...

South East Asia.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793, first edition, 19 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Alexander and Daniell (1 double-page, 2 of fruit printed in colours and finished by hand), 2 double-page engraved charts with partial hand-colouring, occasional spotting and staining, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, [Abbey Travel 514], 4to, 1806. *** The first illustrated English work on what was then Cochin China, now known as Vietnam. The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Tristan da Cunha, reaching Cochin China via Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. The supplementary article covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa and the "Booshuana Nation".