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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 ... : taken chiefly from the papers of his excellency the Earl of Macartney ... Sir Erasmus Gower ... / by George Staunton ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DS708 .S78 1798 v.1-2 (v.1-2)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--China.
- Great Britain.
- International relations.
- China--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes, 26 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed for P. Wogan, R. Cross, P. Byrne, J. Rice, J. Halpin, and N. Kelly, 1798.
- Notes:
- Signatures: v. 1: A-2F8 (+ 1 leaf bound after 2F8); v. 2: a8, b1, B-2D8, 2E7.
- Pagination: v. 1: xv, [1], 449, [1] p.; v. 2: xviii, 430 p.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: plates 7-10, 15-18 wanting.
- OCLC:
- 19229213
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