An historical and descriptive account of China; its ancient and modern history, language, literature, religion, government, industry, manners, and social state; intercourse with Europe from the earliest ages; missions and embassies to the imperial court; British and foreign commerce; directions to navigators; state of mathematics and astronomy; survey of its geography, geology, botany, and zoology.. By Hugh Murray, F.R.S.E.; John Crawfurd, esq.; Peter Gordon, esq.; Captain Thomas Lynn; William Wallace ... and Gilbert Burnett ... With a map, and thirty-six engravings by Jackson. In three volumes. ...
Hugh Murray (1779-1846)
Category
Books
Date
1836
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3114929
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill., fold. map. ; 17cm (8vo). Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half grained, green calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine, gold lettered. Uniform with other vols. in series; series title on spine.
Makers and roles
Hugh Murray (1779-1846) Crawfurd, John Gordon, Peter Lynn, Thomas William Wallace Burnett, Gilbert Thomas