[Burma]. The British Burma Gazetteer in two volumes. Compile - Lot 16

[Burma]. The British Burma Gazetteer in two volumes. Compiled by Authority. Rangoon, Printed at the Government Press, 1880-1879. 2 vols. In-4, X-(2)-2-716-XXXV p., index, 1 mounted frontispiece photograph + (2)-859-(3) p., 11 mounted photographs, publisher's brown and blue percaline, gilt title on spine (worn binding, cloth missing from spine of t.2; appendix paginated I-XVIII at end of vol. II missing). First edition illustrated with 12 hors-texte photographs. An invaluable source on British Burma in the 19th century, this collection was compiled by Indian army colonel Horace Ralph Spearman (who signs the preface), printed in Rangoon and published at the start of the third and final Anglo-Burmese war of conquest, which saw Burma, already largely annexed, become a province of British India in 1886. Handwritten bookplate. (Cordier, Indosinica, I, p. 6).