Bonhams 1793 : CHINA ALEXANDER (WILLIAM) Natives of Cochin China Playing Shuttlecock, 12th April, 1796; and 12 other loose prints from Staunton's Embassy (13)

ALEXANDER (WILLIAM) 13 loose prints from the Atlas volume of Staunton's 'Embassy', occasional browning, small tears with loss affecting plate areas of third, fourth and fifth items (second repaired on verso), staining to fifth item, smallest 210 x 250mm., largest 382 x 510mm., G. Nicol, 12th April, 1796 (13)

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Footnotes

Natives of Cochin China Playing Shuttlecock; View in Turon Bay; Chinese Military Drawn Out in Compliment to the British Embassador; A Front View of the Hall of Audience; The Approach of the Emperor of China...to Receive the British Embassador; A Scene in an Historical Play; View of a Pai-Loo...and of a Chinese Fortress; A Quan or Mandarin Bearing a Letter from the Emperor; A View Near the City of Lin-Tsin on the Banks of the Grand Canal; Chinese Barges of the Embassy Passing through a Sluice; View of the Lake Pao-Yng; The Pelicanus Sinensis, or Fishing Corvorant of China; View of the Suburbs of a Chinese City

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