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Auction archive: Lot number 274

An Abridged Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Undertaken by Order of the King of Great Britain; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and preceded by an account of the causes of the Embassy and Voyage to China...

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$420
Auction archive: Lot number 274

An Abridged Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Undertaken by Order of the King of Great Britain; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and preceded by an account of the causes of the Embassy and Voyage to China...

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$420
Beschreibung:

Title: An Abridged Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Undertaken by Order of the King of Great Britain; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and preceded by an account of the causes of the Embassy and Voyage to China... Author: Staunton, George Leonard Place: London Publisher: John Stockdale Date: 1797 Description: xii, 288 + [4] pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece; folding copper-engraved map. (12mo) 19x12 cm. (7½x4½"), original boards. Scarce little abridged edition of Staunton's famous account of the embassy of Earl Macartney to the imperial court in Peking, first official British embassy to China. Macartney traveled via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by Staunton and a retinue which included Staunton's 11-year-old son, nominally the ambassador's page. The 11-year-old turned out to be only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor. Provenance: Collection of Margaret Gee. Lot Amendments Condition: About half of the spine strip lacking, the remains worn and lifting; internally very good or better, untrimmed and in the original boards. Item number: 220105

Auction archive: Lot number 274
Auction:
Datum:
11 Aug 2011
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: An Abridged Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Undertaken by Order of the King of Great Britain; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and preceded by an account of the causes of the Embassy and Voyage to China... Author: Staunton, George Leonard Place: London Publisher: John Stockdale Date: 1797 Description: xii, 288 + [4] pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece; folding copper-engraved map. (12mo) 19x12 cm. (7½x4½"), original boards. Scarce little abridged edition of Staunton's famous account of the embassy of Earl Macartney to the imperial court in Peking, first official British embassy to China. Macartney traveled via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by Staunton and a retinue which included Staunton's 11-year-old son, nominally the ambassador's page. The 11-year-old turned out to be only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor. Provenance: Collection of Margaret Gee. Lot Amendments Condition: About half of the spine strip lacking, the remains worn and lifting; internally very good or better, untrimmed and in the original boards. Item number: 220105

Auction archive: Lot number 274
Auction:
Datum:
11 Aug 2011
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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