Cordier, BS, 2385 ; Borba de Moraes, II, 838 ; Boucher de la Richarderie, V, 304-356<\/i><\/p>\n
The most complete French edition of Macartney’s famous voyage. It contains the first translation of the account by Johann Christian H\u00fcttner, who was part of the embassy in China. Lord Macartney, charged with establishing commercial relations with China, had to cross a large part of the country to meet the emperor Kien-Loung in Manchuria. His mission was not a political success, but he did bring back some interesting scientific observations on these regions. The report of this embassy was published by Staunton, secretary to Lord Macartney, based on Macartney’s papers and those of Erasmus Goer (who went to Japan). The atlas is more important than the previous edition, which contained just 32 plates.
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“Ant\u00e9rieurement \u00e0 cette excellent relation, quelques ports seulement de la Chine, et surtout celui de Canton, avoient \u00e9t\u00e9 visit\u00e9s par des voyageurs qui ne pouvoient pas juger sainement d’un si vaste empire, d’une nation si nombreuse, d’apr\u00e8s des communication si g\u00ean\u00e9es avec les habitants m\u00eame de ces ports…. La relation d’une ambassade qui r\u00e9unissait les deux avantages de la consid\u00e9ration personnelle et de l’instruction dans son chef et ceux qui l’accompagnaient, promettait sur la Chine des notions plus s\u00fbres qu’aucune de celles qu’on avait eues jusque-l\u00e0… La premi\u00e8re partie de la relation, r\u00e9dig\u00e9e par sir Georges Staunton, est consacr\u00e9e au r\u00e9cit des diff\u00e9rentes rel\u00e2ches que l’escadre anglaise fit \u00e0 Mad\u00e8re, aux Canaries, aux \u00eeles du Cap-Vert. Cette partie renferme aussi des renseignements assez \u00e9tendues sur l’\u00eele de Java, sur la Cochinchine. Elle nous a procur\u00e9 aussi les notions les plus int\u00e9ressantes et les plus instructives peut-\u00eatre qui nous aient \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9es sur le Br\u00e9sil… L’objectif de l’ambassade n’\u00e9tait pas seulement de prot\u00e9ger ou d’activer le commerce de la Chine, d’une grande importance pour les Anglais, On se proposait encore de faire visiter par l’escadre qui transportait l’Ambassadeur et sa suite, tous les pays de cette partie en Asie, qu’on peut appeler l’archipel Chinois” (Boucher de la Richarderie).<\/p>\n
Small waterstain to first text volume and the atlas. Otherwise a very attractive copy, complate with the rare atlas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
5 text volumes 8vo (205 x 129 mm) and the atlas small-folio (286 x 205 mm ). Texte: 2 nn.ll., 492 pp. for volume I; 2 nn.ll., 392 pp. for volume II; 2 nn.ll., 398 pp. for volume III; 2 nn.ll., 359 pp. for volume IV; 2 nn.ll., 344 pp. for volume V. Atlas: 2 nn.ll., 41 numbered engraved plates. Text in contemporary mustard coloured boards, flat spine with red and green lettering pieces (atlas bound in style).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1376,1383,1384,1385,1386],"class_list":{"0":"post-86312","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-brazil","8":"product_tag-china","9":"product_tag-india","10":"product_tag-indonesia","11":"product_tag-japan","12":"pa_auteur-macartney-george-2","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" George MACARTNEY","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, chez F. Buisson, 1804","book_type":"","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n