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1. Travels in China : containing descriptions, observations and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton, in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations ... / by John Barrow ... ; illustrated with several engravings.

Travels in China : containing descriptions, observations and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton, in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations ... / by John Barrow ... ; illustrated with several engravings.
Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
x, [2], 632 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill., port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China; comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of hte Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed with observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation ... By Henry Ellis ...

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Creator:
Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777-1869
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 526, [2] p. front. (port.) col. pl., maps (1 fold.) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.

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Creator:
Abel, Clarke, 1780-1826
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Triumphs and conquests of the English in China.

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Date:
[1842]
Physical Description:
1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 184 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts