Siam [Thailand]Bowring (John) The Kingdom and People of Siam: with a Narrative of the Mission to that Country in 1855, First edition, 2 vols., half-title in vol. 1 only, folding map, 16 engraved and chromolithograph plates, 2 folding facsimile letters, some strengthening to edges, Thai blindstamp to title / frontispiece, plates stained and browned, further spotting, browning and intermittent staining throughout, occasional short tears to text, occasional annotations in coloured pencil, one loose quire in vol. 2, bookplate of Henry Hamilton Beamish to front pastedown, 19th-century half morocco gilt by S. Kaufmann, rubbed, John W. Parker and Son, 1857; Hallett (Holt Samuel) A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States, First edition, an account of his journey through Siam and Burma, with 8 folding maps, ink signature of Phya Bibadh Kosha (Siamese Minister at Rome and delegate at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 - 20, which led to the Treaty of Versailles) to title and several other places throughout, earlier ink note to title and occasionally lengthy annotations to text, half-title heavily browned, 24-page publisher’s catalogue at rear, later half calf, William Blackwood and Sons, 1890; Bird (Isabella L.) The Golden Chersonese, First edition, half-title, frontispiece, 3 plates, folding map, lacking advertisements, two bookplates to front endpaper, contemporary half calf gilt, discoloured, rubbed, 1883; v.s., with one other (5)