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WILLIAM HUTCHESON HALL and WILLIAM DALLAS BERNARD
Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis ... and of the combined military operations in China: comprising a complete account of the Colony of Hong Kong, London: Henry Colburn, 1844. 2 volumes, 8° (236 x 146mm.). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 plates and 3 folding maps, wood-engraved illustrations, half title in volume II. (Most plates spotted and margins waterstained, one folding map with long but clean tear, one plate starting to detach, occasional spotting.) Early 20th-century red half calf (spines a bit scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. The woodcuts in the text "include the celebrated Chinese caricatures of English fighting with Manchus and on looting expeditions" (Lust 558). (2)
Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis ... and of the combined military operations in China: comprising a complete account of the Colony of Hong Kong, London: Henry Colburn, 1844. 2 volumes, 8° (236 x 146mm.). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 plates and 3 folding maps, wood-engraved illustrations, half title in volume II. (Most plates spotted and margins waterstained, one folding map with long but clean tear, one plate starting to detach, occasional spotting.) Early 20th-century red half calf (spines a bit scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. The woodcuts in the text "include the celebrated Chinese caricatures of English fighting with Manchus and on looting expeditions" (Lust 558). (2)
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