Item #139336 Our First Ambassador to China. An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney. With Extracts from his Letters, and the Narrative of his Experiences in China, as told by himself, 1737-1806. From hitherto Unpublished Correspondence and Documents. China, Helen H. ROBBINS.
Our First Ambassador to China. An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney. With Extracts from his Letters, and the Narrative of his Experiences in China, as told by himself, 1737-1806. From hitherto Unpublished Correspondence and Documents

Our First Ambassador to China. An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney. With Extracts from his Letters, and the Narrative of his Experiences in China, as told by himself, 1737-1806. From hitherto Unpublished Correspondence and Documents

London, John Murray, 1908.

Octavo, xx, 479 pages plus 18 plates and a frontispiece portrait with a tissue-guard.

Olive-green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine and in dark green on the front cover; cloth sunned on the spine, a little marked, and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities, with a tiny snag to the foot of the spine; edges a little discoloured; free endpapers tanned; scattered light foxing; overall, a very good copy.

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