Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 1,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Ellis, Sir Henry (1788-1855)
Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China.

London: Printed for John Murray, 1817.

First edition, portrait frontispiece of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Early Amherst (1773-1857), ambassador extraordinary to the court of China's Quing dynasty; illustrated with large folding engraved map, two full-paged maps, and seven hand-colored aquatint plates, some spotting; bound in original calf boards, quite scratched, old rebacking, front board detached, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.

Abbey Travel 536; Hill 542; Löwendahl 791; Lust 509 Cordier BS 2393.



Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.