Barrow, John

4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 ins.; 285 x 220 mm).  Engraved map and plan (both double-page), 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates (one double-page); uncut with deckle edges, partially unopened, minor dampstain to lower margin of preface and contents, a few stray spots. Original gray boards with paper spine label; label worn;  rubbed, repairs to front joint at ends. Half-morocco case.

Abbey, Travel 514; Borba de Moraes p.88; Hill (2004) 66; Mendelssohn I p.143

FIRST EDITION. An account of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. Over half of this account deals with the voyage itself, describing (and often illustrating) Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, the strait of Sunda, Java and Batavia. There is considerable information on Indonesia (about 90 pages) and at the end of the account of Cochinchina there is ''annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802 to... the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of southern Africa'' (title-page).