An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795; (Subsequent to That of the Earl of Macartney. ) Containing a Description of Several Parts of the Chinese Empire, Unknown to Europeans; Taken from the Journal of Andre Everard Van Braam, Many Years Chief of the Direction of That Company, and Second in the Embassy. Translated from the Original of M.L. E. Moreau de Saint-Mery. With a Correct Chart of the Route. - VAN BRAAM, Andre Everard; DE SAINT-MERY, M.L.E. Moreau.

Author: VAN BRAAM, Andre Everard; DE SAINT-MERY, M.L.E. Moreau.
Title: An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795; (Subsequent to That of the Earl of Macartney. ) Containing a Description of Several Parts of the Chinese Empire, Unknown to Europeans; Taken from the Journal of Andre Everard Van Braam, Many Years Chief of the Direction of That Company, and Second in the Embassy. Translated from the Original of M.L. E. Moreau de Saint-Mery. With a Correct Chart of the Route.
Description: London: R. Phillips, 1798. Volume II (of two) only, 8vo., pp.(iv),324, later textured claret cloth, gilt, speckled edges; foxing to title, a little foxing throughout, a few leaves with heavier foxing and small production fault (crease to upper corner) spine lightly sunned, with rubbing to extremities and some marking to boards, a good copy.

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- Book number: 36218

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