M'LEOD, John. Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an account of her subsequent shipwreck ... second edition, London: John Murray, 1818. 8°, half title, engraved portrait and 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates (plates lightly browned, occasional browning to text), contemporary half calf gilt (joints cracked, extremities lightly rubbed). Abbey Travel 559; Lipperheide 1529.

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M'LEOD, John. Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an account of her subsequent shipwreck ... second edition, London: John Murray, 1818. 8°, half title, engraved portrait and 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates (plates lightly browned, occasional browning to text), contemporary half calf gilt (joints cracked, extremities lightly rubbed). Abbey Travel 559; Lipperheide 1529.

M'GHEE, R. J. L. How we got to Pekin, London: Richard Bentley, 1862. 8°, engraved frontispiece and 7 wood-engraved plates (frontispiece and title lightly browned), contemporary half calf gilt (lightly rubbed).

With 5 other works of related interest in 7 volumes including Charles Gutzlaff's Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China (London, [n.d.], third edition) and Robert Fortune's Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China and the British Tea Plantations in the Himalaya (London, 1853, 2 vols., third edition). (9)

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