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Title(s)
Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.
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Additional Title(s)
Abel's travels in China
Travels in China -
Published/Created
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1819.
London : Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, [1819] -
Physical Description
xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS709 .A24 1819+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request] -
Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Spine title, on publisher's original printed label: Abel's travels in China.
Aquatint engravings by T.H. Fielding; after William Havell, Henry Raper, Clarke Abel, Sydenham Edwards, J. Edwards, and William Jackson Hooker. Engraving after A. Richard.
Plates dated Octr. 1st 1817.
Includes index.
"Errata," 1 page at end.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 537
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary paper covered boards, with printed spine label. Cloth spine (rebacked?).
MED,HSL DS 819A: "Errata" inserted. -
Subject Terms
Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826 -- Travel -- Asia. | Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773–1857. | China -- Description and travel. | China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China. | Southeast Asia -- Description and travel. | Voyages and travels.
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Form/Genre
Aquatints -- 1819. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Engravings -- 1819. | Stipple engravings -- 1819. | Travel literature.
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