China rare books

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xl, 456; xvi, 512 pp., 4 pages ads end vol. i, 2 pages ads end vol. ii, 3 folding maps, numerous full-page and other illustrations, some double-page, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, light fading to spine, a very good set.

First edition. 8vo, illustrated with 11 copper engravings (1 folding), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, plate 1 trimmed without loss to image, a little worming to front endpapers, small hole to E4, binding slightly rubbed, a very good copy.

Second edition. 8vo., xviii, 532pp., double page map of China, hand-coloured in outline, 12 lithographed plates, original blindstamped cloth gilt, neatly recased with new endpapers, light spotting to plates, text clean and fresh, a very good example.

First edition. 8vo., 62 pp., original printed wrappers, a very good copy.

First edition. viii, 228pp., original printed blue wrappers, rebacked, light stains to covers, corner wear, a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo, 312pp., frontispiece, 19 photographic illustrations, map, original black cloth, remains of pictorial dust-wrapper tipped-in, a very good copy.

Broadside (31 x 29.5 cm. approx), printed in blue ink with a large pictorial vignette surrounded by an ornamental border.

Two text volumes 4to and an atlas folio (56.8 x 41cm). Text with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of Emperor Tchien Lung and the Earl of Macartney and 26 illustrations of which one full-page; atlas with 44 plates, including one folding, most after W. Alexander, and 7 double-page folding maps; occasional browning and spotting, heavier on 2 plates. Text volumes in contemporary calf, atlas volume in half calf over marbled boards; rebacked in lighter calf to style, a bit rubbed.

First edition in French. 3 vols, comprising 2 vols 8vo text and folio atlas (44 x 28.5 cms); 21 lithograph plates by Engelmann, 9 engraved maps (3 folding), French blue half morocco gilt (atlas bound to match), a fine set.

Second edition, 8vo, xvi, 488 pp., 4 engraved plates, 4 folding maps (1 with short tears and neat repair to verso), woodcuts in text, nineteenth century tan half morocco gilt, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, a fine example.