China - Macartney ([George], The Earl of) and Staunton (Sir ...

Hammer

£430

China - Macartney ([George], The Earl of) and Staunton (Sir George, Baronet), An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...], first edition, volumes I & II only: lacking plate folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, London 1797, pp: [ii], xxxiv, 518; xx, 626, lacking engraved frontispieces, full-page botanical engraved plate at 614/615: Camellia Sesanqua, engraved tailpiece vignettes as called for, contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, the covers with a triple-fillet border enclosing rolled foliate field, the six-compartment spines lettered in the second and numbered in fifth compartments, alternated with foliate bosses, diaper and scrolls, raised bands, gilt edges, Adamesque paterae dentelles, the text blocks reinforced and strengthened with slightly later crimson calf strips, Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: John Deakin Heaton, M.D., (1817-1880, First Chairman of Leeds Council, (1874-1880)), 4to