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HOLMES, Samuel. Voyage en Chine et en Tartarie, à la suite de l'Ambassador de Lord Macartney ... auquel on a joint les vues, costumes, etc., de la Chine, Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Delance et Lesueur, 1805.
8° (198 x 128mm.), half titles, engraved folding frontispiece map and 50 engraved plates, 3 folding by S. Simon after Aléxandre (occasional light marginal spotting), contemporary calf gilt, gilt border on sides, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, flat gilt spines with palm tree motif, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, gilt edges (head and tail of spines and extremities lightly rubbed).
First published in English in 1798. cf. Lust 512; Cordier 2387. (2)
8° (198 x 128mm.), half titles, engraved folding frontispiece map and 50 engraved plates, 3 folding by S. Simon after Aléxandre (occasional light marginal spotting), contemporary calf gilt, gilt border on sides, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, flat gilt spines with palm tree motif, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, gilt edges (head and tail of spines and extremities lightly rubbed).
First published in English in 1798. cf. Lust 512; Cordier 2387. (2)
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