Subtitle: 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 The 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.

FIRST EDITION, bound in contemporary half tan leather with marbled boards. Five raised bands, brown title piece, gilt lettering and gilt ruling to spine. A major account of Lord Amherst's Embassy to China with H.M.S. Alceste in 1816. Narrated by Sir Henry Ellis, third commissioner of the Embassy. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Lord Amherst's portrait, 7 aquatint plates, and three steel-engraved maps (one folding). Plates are all clean and elegantly coloured, engraved from watercolours by Charles Abbot, M. Brownrigg. [Lush 509; Cordier 2393] Scattered foxing to text, but as usual, the maps are considerably foxed.