Author: CAWTHRONE, G. (Editor):
Title: A Complete View of the Chinese Empire. Exhibited in a Geographical Description on its Antiquity, and a Genuine and Copius Account of the Earl Macartney's Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London, printed and published by G. Cawthorn, 1798.
Description: . Pp. (8), lxxii, 224, 275- 456. Pagination irregular. With one engraved frontispiece. Without last leaf with advertisement. First few leaves with some spotting. Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine richly decorated in gilt and with red title label, rubbed. First edition. An anonymous, accurate account of the British embassy headed by Earl Macartney to China during the years 1792-94. Cordier BS 2392. Löwendahl 701. Provenance: Copy of Jacob Lothsack, enobled Kjerrmanskiöld (1745-1818), Swedish captain who headed the Swedish East India Company ship Gustaf III to China in 1796-98.

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