- 437
ELLIS, SIR HENRY
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; comprising... the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-ho to the Return to Canton. London: John Murray, 1817
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FIRST EDITION, 4to (272 x 200mm.), viii, 526pp., [ii pp. errata], 3 engraved maps [1 folding], plain engraved portrait, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary blue straight-grained half morocco, full gilt flat spine, marbled boards and endpapers, short tear in folding map repaired, other maps spotted
"The Amherst embassy in 1816 was the third in a series of unsuccessful British attempts to establish trade relations with the Chinese government... The embassy, which was sent out by George III 'to protest at the ill-treatment of British subjects' was a failure, since Lord Amherst refused to kow-tow to the emperor. Ellis, who published this authorised narrative of the journey and transactions of the embassy, had accompanied Earl Amherst in the capacity of third commissioner" (Löwendahl).
"The Amherst embassy in 1816 was the third in a series of unsuccessful British attempts to establish trade relations with the Chinese government... The embassy, which was sent out by George III 'to protest at the ill-treatment of British subjects' was a failure, since Lord Amherst refused to kow-tow to the emperor. Ellis, who published this authorised narrative of the journey and transactions of the embassy, had accompanied Earl Amherst in the capacity of third commissioner" (Löwendahl).
Provenance
Stewart, armorial bookplate
Literature
Abbey, Travel 536; Hill (2004) 542 ("this edition... is much prized"); Löwendahl 791; Lust 509
Condition
A good copy
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
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