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
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3164775
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates, table . maps . 8vo. Imperfect: Plates 1-44 of plates volume only, lacking title page, but with spine title ‘Maps and engravings relating to China.’ Binding: Nineteenth-century half blue morocco; blue cloth sides; gilt spine title: Maps and engravings relating to China
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)