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 (2 of fruit printed in colours and finished by hand & 1 folding with split to foldline), 2 folding charts (1 hand-coloured), one plate trimmed at head, occasional off-setting, ex-Military Deport with label, contemporary calf, rebacked, 'Military Depot' in gilt to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey, Travel 514; Cordier Sinica 2390-2391; Tooley 86], 4to, 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.