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COX, Capt. Hiram.
Journal of a Residence in the Burmhan Empire, and more particularly at the Court of Amarapoorah.
The author was an East India Company official sent to Rangoon as Resident in 1796. King Bodawpaya of the Konbaung Dynasty founded Amarapura. He founded Amarapura as his new capital in May 1783. The new capital became a center of Buddhist reforms and learning. In 1800, Buddhist clergy from Sri Lanka obtained higher ordination in this city and founded the Amarapura Nikaya (Amarapura sect). .
- Published
- London: John Warren & G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1821.
- References
- Cordier Bibliotheca Indo-Sinica 447-449; Trager 0228; Abbey Travel II 402; Bobins II 793.
- Plates
- 5
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: John Warren & G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1821.
- Ref
- 415
8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, sometime re-backed in calf with leather lettering piece bound without half-title; pp. viii 431; folding hand-coloured frontispiece and four further hand-coloured plates; slight wear to extremities, occasional foxing, bookplate of 'Baron Hambro.' An excellent copy. FIRST EDITION. Cox was despatched by the East India Company at the behest of the Governor-General. Cox was the first resident at Rangoon. His journal provides a fascinating glimpse of Burmese life in the years of 1796-8 - though according to Trager, Cox set a pattern of anti-Burmese writing. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. A Whoonghee or First Minister's Wife in her Hackery with female slave attendants. (folding plate) 2. Chief Sereedoghee. 3. A Trooper. 4. A Looto Seree. 5. A Nakhan.
