TRAVEL & EXPLORATION. – Archibald R. COLQUHOUN. Across Chryse, Being the Narrative of a Journey of Exploration Through the South China Border Lands from Canton to Mandalay. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (221 x 137mm.) Portrait frontispiece to each volume, 22 plates, 3 coloured maps, 2 folding including large map showing ‘Proposed Extension of British Burma Railway System’, numerous illustrations in the text, 32pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear of vol. 2. (Toning, some uncut leaves, a 3-inch tear to one map, spotting verso the maps.) Original grey pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to upper covers and spines (staining to spine panels, finger-marks to lower covers, inner hinge of vol. 2 weakened). Provenance: Charles Algernon Moreing, M.P. (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).