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 from Pekin to Canton

John Barrow

London : T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1804

Quarto. Bound in contemporary polished calf.  Binding worn, restored, with boards rebacked. Marbled end sheets. x, 632 pages.  Hand colored, aquatint portrait frontispiece, and 5 aquatint plates, 3 engraved plates (2 folding). Generally clean internally. Light, scattered spotting. 

Refs: Hill (2004) 62; Abbey, Travel 531; Tooley 84; Lowendahl 724; Lust 365. 

  Barrow served as Lord Macartney's private secretary during the first attempt to establish a British embassy in China.  Barrow's account was a significant as one of the first made by an Englishman of the Chinese Empire and its people.   

Armorial bookplate of Lord Berwick, Qui uti scit ei bona. Thomas Noel Hill, 2nd Baron Berwick (1770-1832).