An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ..

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Author

Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801.

Title

An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ... / taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney ... Sir Erasmus Gower ... and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy ; by Sir George Staunton ...

Published

London : Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1797.

Physical Description

3 v. : 2 maps ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Local Notes

BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams.

BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm.

BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club.

BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams.

Notes

The maps are on folded leaves.

Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.