BARROW, Sir John (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.
BARROW, Sir John (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 o (255 x 213 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece by T. Medland after W. Alexander, 7 aquatint, stipple-engraved or line-engraved plates (4 hand-colored). (Spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary English mottled calf gilt, shaped central inlay of lighter marbled calf gilt (rebacked). Provenance : Thomas Grimston Estcourt (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "Barrow, like William Alexander was in the suite of the Earl of MacCartney'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.
BARROW, Sir John (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.
BARROW, Sir John (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 o (255 x 213 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece by T. Medland after W. Alexander, 7 aquatint, stipple-engraved or line-engraved plates (4 hand-colored). (Spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary English mottled calf gilt, shaped central inlay of lighter marbled calf gilt (rebacked). Provenance : Thomas Grimston Estcourt (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "Barrow, like William Alexander was in the suite of the Earl of MacCartney'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.
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