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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 205

Opium Wars
Books and Literature
Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Henry Ellis, 1818; set in two volumes. Published by John Murray. Original board covers and in good condition.

This comprises a correct and comprehensive narrative of the public transactions of the Embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Peiho to the return to Canton in China. Each volume one China map including

1. Map of the route of the British Embassy upon the river Yang-Tse-Kiang from Kwa-Choo to Nan-Chang-Foo

2. Map of the route of the British Embassy from the mouth of the Peiho River, to Pekin and from thence to Canton in 1816.

An entertaining account of Lord Amherst's embassy to the Chinese Emperor which ended in failure owing to Amherst's refusal to greet the Emperor with the traditional "kow-tow"


1818年已故駐清廷大使亨利艾利斯 (Henry Ellis) 的旅程紀要一套两卷, 由John Murray 出版, 原封面, 狀況良好. 此書每卷都附旅程地圖, 主要是北京, 廣州及楊子江來往路線圖; 與及對阿默斯特勳爵 (Amherst's) 大使對中國皇帝的有趣描述, 由於阿默斯特拒絕用傳統的“磕頭” 來拜見皇帝而此行以失敗告終.

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