Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(PERIODICAL.) The Canton Register. Volumes 2-3 and 7-8, bound in 2 volumes. Folio, sizes not uniform, 19th-century 1/4 cloth; paper toned and somewhat brittle, scattered marginal clean tears. Volume 7 lacks numbers 2-7, 10-12, 14-17, 26, 31, 32, 38, and 44; the other volumes are complete. Guangzhou, 1829-30; 1834-35

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Published from 1827 to 1843, The Canton Register was the first English-language newspaper in China.