AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EMBASSY TO THE EMPEROR OF CHINA BY SIR GEORGE STAUNTON,Published by John Stockdale. London, England (1797). Hardcover. Three-quarter cream leather/marbled green boards, 475 pp., 33 bw plates. This book was undertaken by order of the King of Great Britain and includes the manners and the customs of the inhabitants, preceded by an account of the Embassy of the voyage to China, abridged principally from the papers of Earl McCartney, as compiled by Sir George Staunton Bart, Secretary of Embassy to the Emperor of China, and Minister Plenipotentiary in the Absence of the Embassador. Includes beautifully done engravings. Estimate $300-500
PROVENANCE: Ex. coll. J. Van Antwerp MacMurray, minister to China in 1930s, and later Ambassador to Turkey; subsequently ambassador to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (concurrently).
Inscribed in black ink autograph script, "J.V.A. MacMurray, American Embassy, St. Petersburg, V-4-'10
