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press & The New York TImes. No DJ. . Fine. Hardcover. 1971.

U.S.A.: Ayer Co Pub, 1970. Oversized Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Very good clean tight copy. Usual ex-library features. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

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New York : Arno Press & The New York Times , 1971 . Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7" . Not Stated. A lovely facsimile of the 1818 edition of Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, richly illustrated and with folding maps. This is a lovely facsimile of the 1818 edition of a Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of A Voyage to and From that Country, in the year 1816 and 1817.The volumes also contains an account of the most interesting transaction of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. Clarke Abel was a member of the Geological Society and Chief Medical Officer and Naturalist to the Embassy of China. The volume is richly illustrated throughout with seventeen plate illustrations and three folding maps. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with a few marks to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages. Very Good Indeed

London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. ABEL, Clarke. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China. And of a Voyage to and from that Country in the Years 1816 and 1817, Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin, and Observations of the Countries which it Visited. Illustrated by Maps and other Engravings. London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 269 x 210 mm). [4, blank], xvi, 420, [6, blank] pp. With four maps, three of which are folding, and nineteen plates, eight of which are hand-colored, some others are sepia tone. Two of the uncolored botanical plates are folding. Additional engravings in text. With errata slip tipped in on verso of dedication page. Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed yellow. Plate facing page 165 trimmed close, affecting the imprint but not the… Read More