Beheer

LOT 693
SOLD €280,00

[China] Voyage dans l'intérieur de la Chine, et en Tartarie,

fait dans les années 1792, 1793 et 1794, par Lord Macartney (...). Par Sir Georges Staunton. Traduit de l'anglais, avec des notes par J. Castéra. Seconde édition, augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine, par le traducteur, et du Voyage en Chine et en Tartarie de J.C. Huttner (...). Paris, F. Buisson, an 7 de la République (1798-1799), 5 volumes, with 39 (folding) engraved plates numbered I-XXXIX, including 4 maps of which 3 large folding, contemporary uniform marbled calf ("treecalf"), gilt back with 2 contrasting morocco letterpieces.

Volume 1 partly with water stain in top margin, all volumes trifle foxed; a good set with some traces of use/ light wear, and with handwritten ex libris of A. Terral on free endpaper of volume 1. Contains fine maps of the route of the travelling party at sea (from England around the Cape of Good Hope, through the Malay Archipelago to northeastern China, while also calling at Rio de Janeiro) and of the travels within China.

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