Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BARROW, JOHN, Sir. Travels in China . . . Second Edition. 5 hand-colored aquatint or stipple-engraved plates and 3 uncolored engraved plates, including 2 double-page. [iii]-x, [2], 632 pages. 4to, 268x210 mm, modern 1/2 brown morocco gilt; scattered minor foxing of text, color plates clean, double-page uncolored plates faintly offset, diagonal crease and small stain on title. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806

Additional Details

Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney's 1792-94 embassy to China. Abbey Travel 531; Lust 365 (both citing the 1804 original edition).