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BARROW, JOHN, Sir. Travels in China. 5 hand-colored aquatint or stipple-engraved plates and 3 uncolored engraved plates, including one double-page. 4to, later 19th-century 1/2 calf with morocco lettering pieces, spine slightly darkened and rubbed; scattered minor spotting of text, frontispiece foxed, offsetting onto title, double-page plate browned, short clean tears across Q1 and 2E3, offsetting on page 545 from facing plate. London, 1804
first edition. Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney''s 1792-94 embassy to China; "his accounts of his travels in eastern Asia and southern Africa, published between 1801 and 1807 . . . established new standards for travel writing" (ODNB). Abbey Travel 531; Cordier (Sinica) 2388-89.
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