A Voyage Round the World and Visits to Various Foreign Countries in the United States Frigate Columbia Attended by her Consort the Sloop of War John Adams and Commanded by George C. Reid ...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1849. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Stout 8vo. Two vols. bound as one. Pp. 317, 331. Frontis. Vol I,: black & white engraving by M. Osbourne of "Bombarding of Muckie;" Vol. II: hand-colored reproduction of a portrait of The Present Emperor of China. Illustrated throughout with black & white engravings. Half-bound in recent dark blue morocco over blue cloth boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt rules and decoration, and two red morocco title labels, gilt. Foxing throughout; binding tight, with fine shelf-appeal. Very Good. Item #9965
Title continues: " ... and the visit of the ships to China during the opium difficulties at Canton, and confinement of the foreigners in that city." An important primary-source contribution to the literature on the Opium Wars. According to Hill, the 1848 edition of the hand-colored portrait of the Chinese Emperor is completely different from that in the first edition, 1842, as here in the 1849 edition. See HILL, 588.
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