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GEORGE LEONARD STAUNTON (1737-1801)
An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China... taken chiefly from the papers of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney. London: by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1798. 2 volumes text, 4° (285 x 225 mm) and atlas 2° (440 x 305 mm). Text volumes: 28 engravings in the text and an engraved plate. Atlas: 2 engraved portraits, 42 (of 44) engraved maps and plates mounted on guards, including 6 double-page and one large folding chart. (Title of vol. II lightly stained, occasional light soiling, spotting and browning to text and atlas, a few small clean tears to plates in atlas.) Text bound in 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards (spines faded, extremities rubbed, corners bumped), Atlas bound in modern half morocco. Provenance: Bibliothek K.K. Marine (deacession library stamp on titles and verso of each plate and shelf mark on first leaf of each volume).
'A MOST INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS AT THE CLOSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY' (Cox). Second edition. Staunton was appointed principal secretary to Lord Macartney's embassy to China in 1792 which sought 'to improve commercial relations with China, through Canton (Guangzhou), and to establish regular diplomatic relations between the two countries. Though Macartney and Staunton had an audience with the emperor their proposals were rebuffed. In China [Staunton] closely observed and noted all that he saw, and during expeditions he was able to collect botanical specimens. His son, George Thomas, then just twelve years old, accompanied him to China as page to Lord Macartney, and was the only member of the mission who bothered to learn Chinese' (ODNB). Staunton's account of this important, but ultimately unsuccessful mission, conceived on a grand scale, takes in numerous places visited en route: Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China, etc. Brunet V:525; Cox I:344; Cordier Sinica IV, 2382.
An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China... taken chiefly from the papers of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney. London: by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1798. 2 volumes text, 4° (285 x 225 mm) and atlas 2° (440 x 305 mm). Text volumes: 28 engravings in the text and an engraved plate. Atlas: 2 engraved portraits, 42 (of 44) engraved maps and plates mounted on guards, including 6 double-page and one large folding chart. (Title of vol. II lightly stained, occasional light soiling, spotting and browning to text and atlas, a few small clean tears to plates in atlas.) Text bound in 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards (spines faded, extremities rubbed, corners bumped), Atlas bound in modern half morocco. Provenance: Bibliothek K.K. Marine (deacession library stamp on titles and verso of each plate and shelf mark on first leaf of each volume).
'A MOST INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS AT THE CLOSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY' (Cox). Second edition. Staunton was appointed principal secretary to Lord Macartney's embassy to China in 1792 which sought 'to improve commercial relations with China, through Canton (Guangzhou), and to establish regular diplomatic relations between the two countries. Though Macartney and Staunton had an audience with the emperor their proposals were rebuffed. In China [Staunton] closely observed and noted all that he saw, and during expeditions he was able to collect botanical specimens. His son, George Thomas, then just twelve years old, accompanied him to China as page to Lord Macartney, and was the only member of the mission who bothered to learn Chinese' (ODNB). Staunton's account of this important, but ultimately unsuccessful mission, conceived on a grand scale, takes in numerous places visited en route: Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China, etc. Brunet V:525; Cox I:344; Cordier Sinica IV, 2382.