Voyage en Chine et en Tartarie, a la Suite de L'ambassade de Lord Macartney

Samuel Holmes

Impr. de Delance et Lesueur, an XIII-1805.

2 tomes bound as 1.  Octavo, 22 cm.  Bound in contemporary tree calf.  Gilt ruled, gilt stamping to spine.  Marbled end pages. 1st edition of the French translation.  [4], XLV, 171 p.; [4], 188 p.  51 Illustrated plates, fold out map of Macao.  Engraved by S. Simon from William Alexander's drawings.  (Engravings from "Views, Costums and Manners of China" 1798.)  Holmes accompanied MacCartney's voyage to China to establish and Embassy. Refs: Borba de Moraes I, p. 412; Colas 1472; Cordier 2387.