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A narrative of the British embassy to China, in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794; containing the various circumstances of the embassy, with accounts of customs and manners of the Chinese; And A Description Of The Country, Towns, Cities, &c. &c. By Æneas Anderson, Then In The Service Of His Excellency Earl Macartney, K. B. Ambassador From The King Of Great Britain To The Emperor Of China.
Anderson, Aeneas.Date: 1795- Books
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Voyage de l'ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes orientales hollandaises, vers l'empereur de la Chine, dans les années 1794 & 1795: où se trouve la description de plusieurs parties de la Chine inconnues aux Européens, & que cette ambassade à donné l'occasion de traverser: l tout tiré du journal d'André Everard van Braam Houckgeest, chef de la direction de la Compagnie des Indes orientales hollandaises à la Chine, & second dans cette ambassade; ancien directeur de la Société des sciences & arts de Harlam en Hollande; de la Société philosophique de Philadelphie, &c. &c Et orné de cartes & de gravures. Publié en français par M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Méry. Tome premier[-second].
Van Braam Houckgeest, André Everard van, 1739-1801.Date: 1797[-1798]- Books
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An accurate account of Lord Macartney's embassy to China; carefully abridged from the original work; with alterations and corrections, by the editor, who was also an attendant on the Embassy. Embellished with Plates.
Anderson, Aeneas.Date: 1797
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China from a medical point of view in 1860 and 1861 : to which is added a chapter on Nagasaki as a sanitarium / by Charles Alexander Gordon.
Gordon C. A. (Charles Alexander), Sir, 1821-1899.Date: 1863- Books
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; including cursory observations made, and Information Obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a Small Part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a Relation of the Voyage Undertaken on the Occasion by his Majesty's Ship the Lion, and the Ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's Service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as Well as of their Return to Europe; with Notices of The several places where they stopped in their way out and home; being the Islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago; the Port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the Islands of St. Helena, Tristan D'acunha, and Amsterdam; the Coast of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, His Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of the Expedition, and of other Gentlemen in the several departments of the Embassy. By Sir George Staunton, Baronet, Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, his Majesty's Secretary of Embassy to the Emperor of China, and Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the Embassador. In three volumes. Volume the First.
Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]