Ship Amherst by Gützlaff and Lindsay 1853
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Beskrivning
(GÜTZLAFF, KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST - LINDSAY, HUGH HAMILTON). Ship Amherst. Return to an order of the Honourable House of Commons, dated 17 June 1833, - requiring, a copy or extract of any despatch which may have been addressed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the supra-cargoes at Canton, in reference to the voyage recently undertaken by the ship Amherst to the north-east coast of China, together with a copy of any reports or journals of the said voyage... [signed (Sir R. H. Inglis)]. No place (London, ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed) 1833.
Folio (about 353x216 mm.). (2), 3-106, (2) pp.
Entirely uncut, in new brown half calf, gilt spine (Period Bookbinders, Bath). Title-page and final page browned, title-page mended in upper and lower margin, last page mended in upper margin and upper outer corner.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1732.
Contains on pp. 7-15 Gützlaff´s "Report of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China", dated Canton 10th October 1832, and on pp. 16-106 Lindsay´s "Reports of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China". The reports deals with the situation in the northern ports on the China Coast and Corea, a market survey on behalf of the East India Company.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6176
Datum:
2017-11-21