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SIR JOHN BARROW (1764-1848)
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 4° (285 x 222mm). 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after S. Daniell and W. Alexander, including one folding coastal profile of Rio de Janeiro, and two engraved folding maps, one hand-coloured, the other with route marked by hand in red. (Some light dust soiling throughout, occasionally heavier to top edge, folding engraved map of Southern Africa spotted, as usual.) Original publisher's boards, with remains of printed paper label, contained within a modern morocco-backed clam-shell box, spine gilt (joints and spine ends repaired, extremities rubbed, corners lightly bumped, a trifle dust soiled).
FIRST EDITION; IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney as official interpreter to the embassy to the Emperor of China, having learned Chinese from a former pupil, Thomas Staunton. 'The embassy was a magnificent failure, arriving at Peking with gifts which included all the wonders of Western civilization -- artillery, telescopes, a coach-and-four, a balloon and pilot -- Macartney was treated with hospitable disgust before being dismissed with polite contempt. According to the Chinese Emperor, the presence of a British Ambassador was "not in harmony with the regulations of the Celestial Empire, we also feel very much that it is of no advantage to your country"' (F. Fleming Barrow's Boys (1998), p.4). The 'African' portion of Barrow's work includes an account of 'the journey to Lattakoo, undertaken by Messrs. Daniell, Truter, Somerville, Scholz, and the author' and is based on 'a manuscript in Dutch written by Mr. Truter' (Mendelssohn). Cordier Sinica IV, 2390; Abbey Travel, 514; Mendelssohn I, p.89; Tooley 86.
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 4° (285 x 222mm). 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after S. Daniell and W. Alexander, including one folding coastal profile of Rio de Janeiro, and two engraved folding maps, one hand-coloured, the other with route marked by hand in red. (Some light dust soiling throughout, occasionally heavier to top edge, folding engraved map of Southern Africa spotted, as usual.) Original publisher's boards, with remains of printed paper label, contained within a modern morocco-backed clam-shell box, spine gilt (joints and spine ends repaired, extremities rubbed, corners lightly bumped, a trifle dust soiled).
FIRST EDITION; IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney as official interpreter to the embassy to the Emperor of China, having learned Chinese from a former pupil, Thomas Staunton. 'The embassy was a magnificent failure, arriving at Peking with gifts which included all the wonders of Western civilization -- artillery, telescopes, a coach-and-four, a balloon and pilot -- Macartney was treated with hospitable disgust before being dismissed with polite contempt. According to the Chinese Emperor, the presence of a British Ambassador was "not in harmony with the regulations of the Celestial Empire, we also feel very much that it is of no advantage to your country"' (F. Fleming Barrow's Boys (1998), p.4). The 'African' portion of Barrow's work includes an account of 'the journey to Lattakoo, undertaken by Messrs. Daniell, Truter, Somerville, Scholz, and the author' and is based on 'a manuscript in Dutch written by Mr. Truter' (Mendelssohn). Cordier Sinica IV, 2390; Abbey Travel, 514; Mendelssohn I, p.89; Tooley 86.