The Land of the Great Image
by Collis, Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good-
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. 264pp. Gray boards, red decorative cover. 13 illustrations, including maps. Except for some toning, corner wear, a near fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket chipped on the upper edge of the spine. "A hybrid of history and biography, Maurice Colliss The Land of the Great Image concerns a little-known Portuguese friar abroad in early seventeenth-century Asia. The book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manriques career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma (land of the great image of the Buddha) to the Church and to Portuguese trade, Dispatched from Goa, capital of the now almost forgotten Portuguese empire in Asia, Manrique made his way across and around the Bay of Bengal, surviving shipwreck, tigers, and pirates, to reach the court of King Thiri-thu-dhamma." . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031733
- Title
- The Land of the Great Image
- Author
- Collis, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Burma History Buddha 17th Century
- Size
- Octavo
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About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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