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ANDERSON, Aeneas (fl. 1802). Relacion de la embaxada del Lord Macartney a la China en 1792, 93, y 94. Madrid: Torres y Brugada, 1798. 3 volumes in one, 8° (140 x 93mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Paper repair to title pages of vols. I and II touching vol. number, top three lines of text at II F4 affected by washing with some letters touched up in manuscript.) Dark red morocco by Balmes, 1956, gilt supralibros, spine lettering, turn-ins and edges (spine darkened). Provenance: purchased from Librería Tallers, 1954.
ANDERSON, Aeneas (fl. 1802). Relacion de la embaxada del Lord Macartney a la China en 1792, 93, y 94. Madrid: Torres y Brugada, 1798. 3 volumes in one, 8° (140 x 93mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Paper repair to title pages of vols. I and II touching vol. number, top three lines of text at II F4 affected by washing with some letters touched up in manuscript.) Dark red morocco by Balmes, 1956, gilt supralibros, spine lettering, turn-ins and edges (spine darkened). Provenance: purchased from Librería Tallers, 1954.

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ANDERSON, Aeneas (fl. 1802). Relacion de la embaxada del Lord Macartney a la China en 1792, 93, y 94. Madrid: Torres y Brugada, 1798. 3 volumes in one, 8° (140 x 93mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Paper repair to title pages of vols. I and II touching vol. number, top three lines of text at II F4 affected by washing with some letters touched up in manuscript.) Dark red morocco by Balmes, 1956, gilt supralibros, spine lettering, turn-ins and edges (spine darkened). Provenance: purchased from Librería Tallers, 1954.

Translated from the second French edition, this account of Macartney's Embassy to China, written by his valet, was the first to appear in print. Palau I, 11910.

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