Elgin's mission to China and Japan ... with an introduction

by J. J. Gerson by Laurence Oliphant

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First edition

Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiii, 1 , 492; xi, 1 , 496; 4 folding maps, 20 reproductions of the color lithographs, plus a number of wood-engraved illustrations in the text; edges foxed, spines of dust jackets un clipped and a touch sunned, near fine copy. Facsimile of 1859 edition with a new introduction. In 1857 Oliphant became private secretary to Lord Elgin on his visit to

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