Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BARROW, JOHN, Sir. Travels in China. 5 hand-colored aquatint or stipple-engraved plates and 3 uncolored engraved plates, including 2 double-page. x, [2], 632 pages. 4to, 261x205 mm, contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked; foxing on uncolored plates and some text, color plates clean, light offsetting from frontispiece onto title. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804

Additional Details

first edition. Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney's 1792-94 embassy to China. Abbey Travel 531; Lust 365.