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Ellis, Henry - Voyage en Chine, ou journal de la derniere ambassade anglais a la cour du Pekin
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| Schrijver: | Ellis, Henry |
| Titel: | Voyage en Chine, ou journal de la derniere ambassade anglais a la cour du Pekin |
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| Uitgever: | Delaunay, Paris 1818, first French edition, 2 volumes |
| Bijzonderheid: | 13x21 cm. viii, 340 and 398 pages. With engraved portrait and 7 engraved plates (views) + 3 folded maps. |
| Prijs: | € 950,00 |
| Meer info | The maps include one very large (42x55 cm) foldout map of East China, also showing the Yellow Sea and Formosa. The first English edition appeared a year earlier with the title "Journal of the proceedings of the late Embassy to China". Account of the events and adventures surrounding the embassy of Earl Amherst's to China in 1816, sent out by King George III to protest ill-treatment of British subjects. Sir Henry Ellis, a noted diplomat and historian, served as the third commissioner. Amherst and his retinue were sent home in disgrace after he refused to "kow-tow" (nine strikings of the forehead on the ground) at his presentation to the Emperor Khien Lung in Peking. As if this humiliation was not enough, their ship, the Alceste, was wrecked off the coast of Sumatra on the return voyage. On the return voyage the ship stopped at St. Helena; included in the text is Sir Henry's interview with Napoleon Bonaparte. Contemporary halfleather bindings with marbled paper boards and gilt decoration. One vignette with damage, one of the spine ends expertly restored. Textpages clean except for a scattered spot. Maps and plates sometimes with light spotting. |
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