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Holmes, Samuel | Langles, Louis-Mathieu (ed.)

Voyage en Chine et en Tatarie, a la suite de l'ambassade de Lord Macartney [...]. Auquel on a joint les vues, costumes, etc. de la Chine, par M. W. Alexandre, les planches de l'atlas original de cette ambassade, omises dans la traduction française, et leur explication. 1–2.

Paris, de l’imprimerie de Delance et Lesueur, [on verso of half-titles:] se vend à Paris, chez Simon, graveur […], Levrault, Schoell et comp. […], [et] Delance & Lesueur, 1805. 8vo. iv + xlvi + 172; + iv + 188 pp. + 2 folding engraved plans + 50 engraved plates, most of which engraved by S. Simon after William Alexander. Contemporary half calf, bookplate. Holmes’s “Journal du voyage” is found in vol. 1, pp. 49–171 & vol. 2, pp. 1–125; vol. 1 contains “Observations sur les relations politiques et commerciales de l’Angleterre et de la France avec la Chine” by Langlès on pp. xiii–xlv and “Vues, costumes, mœurs et usages de la Chine” on pp. 1–48; vol. 2 contains “Explication de toutes les cartes, vues, plans, etc., qui composent l’atlas de l’édition originale de l’ambassade de Lord Macartney, traduite de l’anglais par C-y” on pp. 127–73. First French edition of The journal of Mr. Samuel Holmes, serjeant-major of the XIth light dragoons, during his attendance, as one of the guards on Lord Macartney’s embassy to China and Tartary, 1792–3, London 1798, translated and edited by Langlès. Cordier, BS, 4, cols. 2387–8. Colas 1472.

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