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RESERVED - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok -
Anna Harriette Leonowens
1870 - Fields, Boston - First Edition
A lovely bright first edition of Leonowens’ remarkable memoirs, rare in the original gilt decorated cloth.
The basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical ‘The King and I’, starring Gertrude Lawrence as Leonowens and Yul Brynner as the King.
Illustrated with sixteen black and white engraved illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the new King of Siam, who owed his education to ‘that tiresome, naughty and meddlesome, Mem Leonowens . . . a good and true lady’.
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Price HK$ 8,000
1870 - Fields, Boston - First Edition
A lovely bright first edition of Leonowens’ remarkable memoirs, rare in the original gilt decorated cloth.The basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical ‘The King and I’, starring Gertrude Lawrence as Leonowens and Yul Brynner as the King.
Illustrated with sixteen black and white engraved illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the new King of Siam, who owed his education to ‘that tiresome, naughty and meddlesome, Mem Leonowens . . . a good and true lady’.
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Price HK$ 8,000
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat -
Edmund Roberts
1837 - Harper & Brothers, New York - First Edition
Important account of an early American embassy to the east. Roberts was appointed as special agent of the United States to negotiate treaties with Muscat, Siam, Cochin China and Japan, which he set out to do in 1832 with the ship Peacock and the schooner Boxer.
Includes about 120 pages describing the culture and business practices of China.
In publisher’s original cloth, and paper label to spine.
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Price HK$ 6,500
1837 - Harper & Brothers, New York - First Edition
Important account of an early American embassy to the east. Roberts was appointed as special agent of the United States to negotiate treaties with Muscat, Siam, Cochin China and Japan, which he set out to do in 1832 with the ship Peacock and the schooner Boxer.Includes about 120 pages describing the culture and business practices of China.
In publisher’s original cloth, and paper label to spine.
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Price HK$ 6,500