Voyage de l'Ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales Hollandaisses, vers l'Empereur de la Chine, dans les annees 1794 & 1795

by Andreas Everard von Braam Houckgeest

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First edition

First edition. lxxx,437; xii,520pp. Three folding maps and eight of 12; see note engraved plates. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked. Provenance: Harriet Beauclerk, Duchess of St. Albans armorial bookplate ; Michael Zinman booklabel . Cordier Sinica 2350; Landwehr 547; Lust 504 Sabin 33133. See Alfred Owen Aldridge, The Dragon and the Eagle: The Presence of China in the American Enlightenment Wayne State: 1993 . Item #368901

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