An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ...
In 1792, George, Lord Macartney was appointed Ambassador to the Emperor of China. His prime objective was to negotiate a treaty of commerce and friendship, and to establish a resident Ministry at the court of the Emperor at Peking (Beijing). Macartney was accompanied by the meticulous Sir George Staunton, mathematician John Barrow, James Dinwiddie, a showman-scientist, Thomas Hickey, an idle portrait painter, William Alexander, an industrious draughtsman, and John Crewe, a young rakehell gambler. Although costs were high at
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; including cursory observations made, ... travelling through that ancient empire, ... Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, ... By Sir George Staunton, ... In three volumes (London : printed for G. Nicol, 1797).
London : printed for G. Nicol.
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Novissima Sinica [title page].
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'I consider it a singular plan of the fates that human cultivation and refinement should today be concentrated, as it were, in the two extremes of our continent, in Europe and in Tshina (as they call it), which adorns the Orient as Europe does the opposite edge of the earth.' So wrote G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716), the German philosopher and mathematician, in his preface to Novissima Sinica (News from China), a collection of missionary reports and letters on China. Two questions from the text highlight the practical nature inherent in the book: 'Whether nothing is known of the sea between North Asia and North America' and 'whether there were any artificial economic devices of the Chinese for toiling the field and garden, which are of worth and useful to be described?' This is the second edition of 1699.
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Novissima Sinica, historiam nostri temporis illustratura in quibus De christianismo publica nunc primum autoritate propagato missa in Europam relatio exhibetur, deqve favore scientiarum Europaearum ac moribus gentis & ipsius praefertim monarchae, tum & de bello Sinensium cum Moscis ac pace constituta, multa hactenus ignota explicantur. Edente G.G.L. ... [Leipzig?] 1699.
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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo [title page of the first edition].
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At the age of seventeen, the Venetian Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled with his merchant father, Nicolo, and his uncle, Maffeo, to the court of Kublai Khan. Polo was away from Venice for twenty-four years. His account of his travels and of the Peking (Beijing) court and its riches afforded the European world its first knowledge of the East. To some his stories were so fantastic that he was dubbed Marco Millioni, 'man of a million lies'.
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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo, together with, The travels of Nicolo de
London : Argonaut Press
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo [title page].
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Apart from the general interest attaching itself to an Elizabethan translation of the Travels of Marco Polo, the present edition aims at supplying a long-felt want in Polian research - a series of maps embodying the latest work and discoveries of explorers and cartographers (Penzer, 1929, introduction).
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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo, together with, The travels of Nicolo de
London : Argonaut Press.
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
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The oriental voyager [title page].
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Surgeon James Johnson (1777-1845) was on board the 36 gun ship Caroline, commanded by B. W. Page. Dedicated to Henry Lord Viscount Melville, this work contains a topographical and picturesque sketch of all the places annually visited by the British East India and China fleets, including Madeira, Ceylon, Madras, Bengal, Malacca, Sumatra, Macao and Canton. After sailing through a typhoon, the Caroline eventually arrived at Canton, in early December 1804.
According to Johnson, 'Hog-lane' was the sailor's pleasure-spot, where they would lose their money and get drunk. Anecdotes abound of incidents between the Chinese and the English 'tars'.
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The oriental voyager : or, Descriptive sketches and cursory remarks, on a voyage to India and China, in His Majesty
London : Printed by Joyce Gold, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-street, for James Asperne, at the Bible, Crown, and Constitution, 32, Cornhill.
Johnson, James, 1777-1845
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