[London], George Nicol, April 12th, 1796. John Barrow (later first Baronet) was attached to the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by George Macartney in 1792-94. The map is plate 9 from the atlas to the official account of the embassy, George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy..... More
Zi-Ka-Wei [near Shanghai], Imprimerie de l'Orphinat de T'ou-Se-We, 1930 [second edition]/ 1929. Loosely inserted are three contemporary maps in French, neatly hand-drawn and hand-coloured in outline, of China, Indo-China and the French colonies in the Pacific, and a printed map in English, removed from another book, showing the coast and..... More
Over three hundred Edwardian snapshots (most approximately 120 × 95 mm, but with some variation) of travels in India, China, north Africa and Europe, with some 'at home, at ease' images as well. Many are captioned, some are dated (1907), and there are occasional clues to the identity of the..... More