Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ELLIS, HENRY. Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China. Etched frontispiece portrait of the author; 7 hand-colored aquatint plates; 3 engraved maps, the first folding. vii, [1], 526, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 4to, 270x217 mm, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked with cloth retaining most of original backstrip, binding worn overall, endpapers renewed; portrait lightly foxed, with dampstain in lower margin; folding map offset and offsetting onto facing page, with short clean tear, maps facing pages 292 and 450 severely browned, plates clean. London, 1817

Additional Details

first edition. Abbey Travel 536; Hill 542.