The kingdom and people of Siam : with a narrative of the mission to that country in 1855
John Bowring's 1857 London travel account, published by John W. Parker, records his 1855 diplomatic mission to Siam and its people and customs. The engravings show a rotated view of a tiered temple roof with carved gables, a close view of a spired temple with curved finials, and a map of the Salween River and Chiang Mai region, useful to designers wanting Siamese architectural ornament and nineteenth-century cartographic lettering.
