BAKER (Thomas Turner). The recent operations of the British - Lot 8

BAKER (Thomas Turner). The recent operations of the British Forces at Rangoon and Martaban. London, Thomas Hatchard, 1852. In-8, VII-78 p., 4 plates, plum percaline, title "Rangoon" gilt throughout on spine [Bound by J. Dean, 28 Villiers Street, Strand] (spine faded). Posthumous first edition illustrated with 4 lithographed plates, including two fold-outs and the frontispiece. Reverend Baker's precious account of the first three months of the Second Anglo-Burmese War, declared after the capture of the port of Martaban and the occupation of Rangoon by the British in April 1852 - the second war that led to the annexation of the whole of Lower Burma, including the capital Rangoon, the Irrawaddy delta and the Pegu region, depriving the country of access to the sea and forcing the Burmese court to take refuge in the northern city of Mandalay. Handwritten bookplate. (Abbey, Travel, 407; Cordier, Indosinica, 455).