Notes of a journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam. With maps and illustrations.

8vo.

Mod. three-quarter black leather, blue buckram on covers, gilt-ruled flat spine (covers dampstained, sl. rubbing).

First edition of a 6-months journey from and back Bangkok with stops in i.a. Muang Nan, M. Chien Kong and Luang Praband. The object of the journey was "primarily the examination, for the Siamese Government, of a supposed very rich deposit of gems (rubies and sapphires), lately discovered on the left bank of the Mekong, opposite Chien Kong" (Preface, p. v). Illustrated with a front., a full-page map and many in-text ill.
Bound with, same author: 1. Notes on a journey to some of the South-Western provinces of Siam. From "The Geographical Journal". 1895. Ill. with a fold. map in colour (one fold. strengthened), one full-page and in-text ill. - 2. Journeys in the Siamese east coast States. (From "The Geographical Journal", 1898). Ill. with a fold. map and in-text ill. - 3. Australasian Association for the advancement of science. Brisbane, 1895. Notes on the geography of the Upper Mekong. Ill. with 10 full-page ill., a fold. map in colour and in-text. - 4. Paper XI. Note on the trade & inland communications of Siam. Read by Smyth at a meeting of the Cosmopolitan Society. 20th Nov. 1900.
Interesting collection of work and articles on Siam by Smyth (1867-1943), British traveller, naval officer and mining engineer who served the government of Siam.