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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 203

Opium Wars
Books and Literature
Staunton's China, vol. 1 with owner's signature dated 1797; leather covered boards. This book provides an authentic account of an Embassy from Great Britain to the Emperor of China during the 1790s. There are eight chapters including;

The Portuguese and English to establish commercial intercourse with the Chinese at the areas of Macao and Canton.

Passage to the Southern part of the Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean. View of the islands of Tristan D'Acunha in the former, and those of St. Paul and Amsterdam in the latter.

Entrance to the Straits of Sundra - visit to Batavia and Bantam in the Island of Java - view of the Southern extremity of the Island of Sumatra. Passage through the Straits of Banka to Pulocondore.

The journey to Cochin-China


斯丹頓的中國卷 1 , 帶原所有者簽名, 日期為 1797 年; 皮革精裝. 書這本書提供了 1790 年代英國駐清廷大使的真實記錄. 共有八章, 包括: 葡萄牙人和英國人在澳門和廣州地區與中國人建立商業往來. 通往大西洋南部和印度洋的通道. 前者是 Tristan D'Acunha 島, 後者是聖保羅島和阿姆斯特丹島. 進入桑德拉海峽 - 參觀爪哇島的巴達維亞和班塔姆 - 蘇門答臘島南端的景色. 穿過班卡海峽到達普洛孔多爾. 科欽-中國之旅. 全卷充满十八世紀末的遠東情趣.

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