A Complete History of the Empire of China: Being the Observations of above Ten Years Travels through that Country: Containing Memoirs and Remarks.
London: James Hodges, at the Looking Glass, on London-Bridge, 1739. 2nd Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition. Spine was sympathetically replaced and new blanks added. Original boards present with some scuffing and rounded corners. Leather over boards. Possibly repaired in China, first blank contains Chinese character stamp and last end paper contains sticker from the French Bookstore in Peking China. Owners stamp on first blank and older owner’s signature on second (original) blank. Frontispiece contains an engraving of Confucious by W. H. Toms with minor water stain to the bottom portion of the page. Five additional copper plate engravings present including: fold out of the Throne of the Emperor, fold out of Pekin Observatory, fold out grid of Chinese word sounds, full page of a Tree of China, and ½ page of a map of islands. Pages remarkably clean and clear given the age of the book with very infrequent and minimal foxing (a few single dots on a few pages from my review).
Pages: (10) 536 (4)
Dimensions: 8 x 5⅛ x 1⅝. Very Good+. Item #1739ACH-COM-2-VG
Price: $1,250.00