拍品 114
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STAUNTON, George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1797. 2 text volumes, 4° (283 x 220mm), and atlas volume, 2° (568 x 420mm). Text volumes with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of Emperor Tchien Lung and the Earl Macartney and 26 illustrations, atlas with 44 plates including one folding and 6 double page maps. (Text: lacking pp.521-22, light spotting, heavier to portraits, marginal staining to pp.192-193; atlas: lower corners nibbled.) Text: contemporary tree calf (rebacked, a few worm holes to spines, extremities rubbed and bumped); atlas: later half calf (extremities rubbed and bumped).
STAUNTON, George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1797. 2 text volumes, 4° (283 x 220mm), and atlas volume, 2° (568 x 420mm). Text volumes with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of Emperor Tchien Lung and the Earl Macartney and 26 illustrations, atlas with 44 plates including one folding and 6 double page maps. (Text: lacking pp.521-22, light spotting, heavier to portraits, marginal staining to pp.192-193; atlas: lower corners nibbled.) Text: contemporary tree calf (rebacked, a few worm holes to spines, extremities rubbed and bumped); atlas: later half calf (extremities rubbed and bumped).

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STAUNTON, George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1797. 2 text volumes, 4° (283 x 220mm), and atlas volume, 2° (568 x 420mm). Text volumes with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of Emperor Tchien Lung and the Earl Macartney and 26 illustrations, atlas with 44 plates including one folding and 6 double page maps. (Text: lacking pp.521-22, light spotting, heavier to portraits, marginal staining to pp.192-193; atlas: lower corners nibbled.) Text: contemporary tree calf (rebacked, a few worm holes to spines, extremities rubbed and bumped); atlas: later half calf (extremities rubbed and bumped).

FIRST EDITION of 'a most interesting account of Chinese manners and customs'. Together with the maps, the stunning views in the atlas describe the journey 'of this famous embassy... of considerable interest owing to the descriptions of the various places en route which were visited' (Cox). Brunet V, 525; Cox I, p.344.