EIGHTEEN VIEWS TAKEN AT & NEAR RANGOON (Joseph Moore) bound with SIX PLATES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE COMBINED OPERATIONS IN THE BIRMAN EMPIRE (Frederick Marryat).

Oblong folio 13x21 inches- half near period morocco over printed cloth boards lettered 'Illustrations of the Burmese War'. 24 FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES by G. Hunt, H. Pyall, T. Fielding, and Reeve jnr., after J. Moore, F. Marryat, and Captain Thornton. Plates numbered 1-18 and 1-6 complete but only the plates - bound without text or the titles. Corresponds to the second issue described in the extensive notes in the bibliography Abbey Travel 404. Two plates marked 'Proof' and the word Adjacent altered on plate 16. Condition, upper hinge repaired, plates mounted on onglets, occasional minor marginal splits and some, mostly marginal spotting. The present series of images begins in May 1824, with the first plate showing British vessels preparing to set sail from the Harbour of Port Cornwallis on the Island of Andaman. This is followed by the British landing at Rangoon, the storming of various stockades and forts around the city, the capture of a Burman gilt war boat, and naval battles involving dozens of ships. Interspersed with these military spectacles are more traditional scenic views of the country's landscape and pagodas especially the Shwedagon Pagoda (called the Great Dagon Pagoda), the most sacred Buddhist site in the country and one of the first places occupied by the British when they arrived. The war 1824-1826 was basically over the control of north east India.…