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ABEL (CLARKE) Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817, 4to (2)
1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
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ABEL (CLARKE)
Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817, 19 aquatint or engraved plates (8 hand-coloured), 4 engraved maps (3 folding), errata slip, title shorter (?inserted from another copy), a few small marginal tears to plates, some spotting and offsetting, modern half calf [Löwendahl 797; Lust 496; cf. Abbey Travel 537, second edition], Longman, Hurst, 1818--ELLIS (HENRY) Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-Ho to the Return to Canton, engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 engraved maps (one folding, 2 browned), some marginal dampstaining (heaviest on portrait), tissue guards but some light offsetting, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine [Abbey Travel 536; Cordier Sinica 2393; Hill 542; Löwendahl 791; Lust 509; Tooley 208], John Murray, 1817, FIRST EDITIONS, 4to (2)