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China--Nieuhoff, Jan. AN EMBASSY FROM THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY OF THE UNITED PROVINCES, TO THE GRAND TARTAR CHAM EMPEROUR OF CHINA. LONDON: JOHN MACOCK, 1669, 3 PARTS IN ONE VOLUME, FOLIO, TITLE PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK, ENGRAVED ADDITIONAL PICTORIAL TITLE, PORTRAIT, DOUBLE-PAGE MAP AND 19 PLATES, ONE DOUBLE-PAGE, CONTEMPORARY CALF GILT, ONE PLATE (PART 3, OPPOSITE P.36) TORN WITH LOSS, FOLLOWING PAGE TORN WITH LOSS OF CATCHWORD, SOME BROWNING AND SPOTTING, BINDING WORN Alexander, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese. London, 1814, large 4to, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary red half morocco, some offsetting and spotting, a few marginal tears (eg. plates 30 and 47), binding worn Wright, G.N. China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits. London, no date [c.1843], 4 volumes bound in 2, 4to, 4 additional engraved pictorial titles and 124 plates after Thomas Allom contemporary green half morocco gilt, gilt edges, slight offsetting and spotting Barrow, John. Travels in China. London, 1804, first edition, 4to, 8 engraved or aquatint plates, 5 coloured, 2 double-page (plain), contemporary boards with modern calf gilt spine and corners, somewhat soiled and spotted, a few leaves dampstained, new endpapers, old boards rubbed and one other, Hong Kong. Correspondence... respecting the extension of the boundaries of the Colony (Colonial Office, November 1900), with some defects; together 6 volumes