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ANDERSON, Aeneas (fl. 1802). A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794. London: J. Debrett, 1795. 4° (300 x 230mm). Half-title, one-page publisher's advertisements at end (light spotting throughout). Contemporary speckled calf decorated in gilt with central crowned armorial device on upper cover (rebacked, extremites rubbed, corners bumped). FIRST EDITION.
MEDHURST, Walter Henry. China: Its State and Prospects. London: John Snow, 1840. 8° (215 x 130mm). Frontispiece printed in colours by G. Baxter, title with wood-engraved vignette, 4 plates and a folding map (title spotted and waterstained at one corner, occasional light mainly marginal spotting, map torn without loss). Later calf-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (corners bumped).
With 13 other books mostly on China and Japan, including Jan Nieuhoff's An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperior of India ... Translated by John Ogilby (London, ?1673, defective) and Awnsham Churchill's A Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1744, part III only, third edition). (15)
MEDHURST, Walter Henry. China: Its State and Prospects. London: John Snow, 1840. 8° (215 x 130mm). Frontispiece printed in colours by G. Baxter, title with wood-engraved vignette, 4 plates and a folding map (title spotted and waterstained at one corner, occasional light mainly marginal spotting, map torn without loss). Later calf-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (corners bumped).
With 13 other books mostly on China and Japan, including Jan Nieuhoff's An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperior of India ... Translated by John Ogilby (London, ?1673, defective) and Awnsham Churchill's A Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1744, part III only, third edition). (15)
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