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, ... together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion, ... with notices of the several places where they stopped ... taken chiefly from the papers of his excellency the Earl of Macartney ...; Sir Erasmus Gower, ... by Sir George Staunton, Baronet, ... In three volumes, ...
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1797
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3042771
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates, table . maps . 8vo.. Binding: eighteenth-century half calf; marbled paper over boards; red title and volume spine labels. Spine title: Staunton's Embassy to China.
Makers and roles
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)