CHASE, DORMER AUGUSTUS: - Anglo-Burmese Hand-Book, or Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language. Revised by F.D. Phinney. Rangoon, American Baptist Mission Press, 1890.

. Pp. 209. Original blue cloth, rubbed, remains of old label on spine. Old Asian stamp on title page. Some browning. Copy belonging to the German sinologist Albert von Le Coq with his bookplate.Later edition (first Maulmein 1852), the first revised and rewritten by F.D. Phinney who states in the preface that he has altered the style of the work and "rewritten the Romanized Burmese words as closely as possible in accordance with the Hunterian system". Dormer Augustus Chase was stationed in Burma between 1847 and his death in 1860. His Burmese handbook became very popular and went through many editions. Cordier BI 349.

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