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SIR JOHN BARROW (1764-1848)
Travels in China, containing descriptions, observations, and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on the subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton. London: printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. 4° (265 x 211mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece by T. Medland after W. Alexander, 7 aquatint, stipple engraved or line engraved plates, 4 of these hand-coloured. (Spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary marbled calf (light rubbing, small chip at spine head). FIRST EDITION. 'Barrow, like William Alexander, was in the suite of the Earl of Macartney's embassy of 1792 to the Emperor of China. The expedition provided the material for a number of interesting works on China, of which the above book and Alexander's The Costume of China ... are notable examples' (Abbey). Abbey Travel 531; Lust 365; Tooley 84.
JONAS HANWAY (1712-1786).An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a Journal of Travels from London through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland. London: sold by Dodsley, Nourse, Millar, Vaillant, Patterson, Waugh and Willock, 1753. 4 volumes, 4° (264 x 205mm). 4 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding maps, 5 (of 15) plates, 10 engraved head-pieces; without final blanks or half-titles. (Maps with a very few tears at folds, R1 in vol. 3 torn without loss, frontispiece of vol.4 with small pinholes). Contemporary diced half Russia, spines and sides ruled in gilt, spines lettered in gilt (paper carefully stripped from all boards).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest European eye-witness accounts of the Caspian region. Hanway, a partner in an English firm operating out of St Petersburg, was engaged in trade with Persia. He supplemented his own observations with extensive use of De Clairac's history of Persia. Hanway, popularly known as the pioneer user of the umbrella, 'made a journey in 1743 down the Volga and by the Caspian Sea to Persia with a caravan of woolen goods, and returned in 1745 by the same route after many perilous adventures. He reached London in 1750' (Cox). Although this set lacks a number of plates, it is presented in its first binding, all the maps are present, and it does not show evidence of plates having been removed; quite possibly these were never bound-in. Brunet III, 38; Cox I, p. 255; ESTCT 93947; Goldsmiths 8801; Kress 5268.
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Travels in China, containing descriptions, observations, and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on the subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton. London: printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. 4° (265 x 211mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece by T. Medland after W. Alexander, 7 aquatint, stipple engraved or line engraved plates, 4 of these hand-coloured. (Spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary marbled calf (light rubbing, small chip at spine head). FIRST EDITION. 'Barrow, like William Alexander, was in the suite of the Earl of Macartney's embassy of 1792 to the Emperor of China. The expedition provided the material for a number of interesting works on China, of which the above book and Alexander's The Costume of China ... are notable examples' (Abbey). Abbey Travel 531; Lust 365; Tooley 84.
JONAS HANWAY (1712-1786).An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a Journal of Travels from London through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland. London: sold by Dodsley, Nourse, Millar, Vaillant, Patterson, Waugh and Willock, 1753. 4 volumes, 4° (264 x 205mm). 4 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding maps, 5 (of 15) plates, 10 engraved head-pieces; without final blanks or half-titles. (Maps with a very few tears at folds, R1 in vol. 3 torn without loss, frontispiece of vol.4 with small pinholes). Contemporary diced half Russia, spines and sides ruled in gilt, spines lettered in gilt (paper carefully stripped from all boards).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest European eye-witness accounts of the Caspian region. Hanway, a partner in an English firm operating out of St Petersburg, was engaged in trade with Persia. He supplemented his own observations with extensive use of De Clairac's history of Persia. Hanway, popularly known as the pioneer user of the umbrella, 'made a journey in 1743 down the Volga and by the Caspian Sea to Persia with a caravan of woolen goods, and returned in 1745 by the same route after many perilous adventures. He reached London in 1750' (Cox). Although this set lacks a number of plates, it is presented in its first binding, all the maps are present, and it does not show evidence of plates having been removed; quite possibly these were never bound-in. Brunet III, 38; Cox I, p. 255; ESTCT 93947; Goldsmiths 8801; Kress 5268.
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