Vietnam.- 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 folding, 2 of fruit printed in colours and finished by hand), 2 folding engraved charts with partial hand-colouring (Rio de Janeiro & South Africa), title torn and repaired at upper corner, with loss of last two letters of 'Voyage', folding chart of South Africa with repaired short worm trace within image (with minor loss) and one fold starting to neatly split, offsetting, some spotting or staining (for the latter see in particular sig. BB, where affecting the 2 fruit plates), mostly lightly browned throughout, antique style blind-stamped calf, spine in compartments and with black leather label, faded (leaving a dark circle to upper cover), some staining, rubbed and marked, [Abbey, Travel 514; Cordier Sinica 2390-2391; Tooley 86], 4to, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806.

⁂ The first illustrated English work on what was then Cochin China, now known as Vietnam. The voyage called at Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Tristan da Cunha, reaching Cochin China via Batavia on Java. The volume includes Captain Cook interest, with an account of finding the Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. A supplementary part at end covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa and the 'Booshuana Nation'. Includes a short English-Chinese-Cochinchinese vocabulary.