China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, 60 fine engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, 4 folding, some spotting or light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Cordier Sinica 2351-2352; Hill 2004, 733; Lust 336], folio, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. ⁂ Guignes was Consul in Canton in 1784, and from 1794-95 he was an interpreter with the Dutch Embassy to Peking, spending some 17 years in total in China. The majority of plates relate to China, and include a map of the Philippines, and a plan of the bay of Manilla.
China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, 60 fine engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, 4 folding, some spotting or light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Cordier Sinica 2351-2352; Hill 2004, 733; Lust 336], folio, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. ⁂ Guignes was Consul in Canton in 1784, and from 1794-95 he was an interpreter with the Dutch Embassy to Peking, spending some 17 years in total in China. The majority of plates relate to China, and include a map of the Philippines, and a plan of the bay of Manilla.
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