"A Description of Ceylon containing an Account of the Countr...

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"A Description of Ceylon containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants and Natural Productions; with Narratives of a Tour Round the Island in 1800, the Campaign in Candy in 1803, and a Journey to Ramisseram in 1804". Complete in two volumes. By Rev. James Cordiner, published by Longman Rees et al in 1807. Beautifully bound (possibly later) with decorated leather spines with raised bands and leather corners, marbled covers and page edges, all pages tight and present, includes fold out engravings. Some foxing to pages, with some displaying light shadow of the opposite pages' illustration.

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