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CHINA BARROW (JOHN) Travels in China, FIRST EDITION, T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1804
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BARROW (JOHN) Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton, FIRST EDITION, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 engraved plates (2 double-page), half calf, spine tooled in gilt with gilt morocco lettering label [Abbey Travel 531; Cordier 2388; Hill 64; Lowendahl 724; Lust 365; Tooley 84], 4to, T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1804
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John Barrow was a member of Lord Macartney's embassy to China, and his works includes "an account of that mission that contains some first-hand information not found in Staunton" (Lowendahl).
Provenance: George Cornwall Legh (1804-1877, Member of Parliament for Chester from 1841 to 1873), bookplate; William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.

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