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20 POSTCARDS OF KAMAKURA

*NEW*: 2025 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2024.1.1-2024.12.31
2025 Gudong Paimai Nianjian 2025 古董拍賣年鑑.

Abe, Stanley:
- ORDINARY IMAGES

AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER

Acharya, Sanjay:
- BHUTAN

Adams, Edward B:
- ART TREASURES OF SEOUL

Alexander, William & Mason, George:
- VIEWS OF 18TH CENTURY CHINA: COSTUMES, HISTORY, CUSTOMS

Allen, H. M. ed:
- LETTERS OF P. S. ALLEN

Andrews, F. H:
- WALL PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT SHRINES IN CENTRAL ASIA

ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU
(Remains of Large Stone Tombs Found on the Anning River) 安寧河流域大石窟.

Yuhas, Louise ed:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 25

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 33

Asahi Shimbun ed:
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER SIX
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER NINE
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER TEN - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE
- THIS IS JAPAN 1965 - NUMBER 12
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 13
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 16

Asian Art Museum:
- 5,000 YEARS OF KOREAN ART

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES

MLEVM7
M’Leod, John M. D: VOYAGE OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP 'ALCESTE'. Along the Coast of Corea to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account of her Subsequent Shipwreck. London, 1818. 1, 2, 323 pp. engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 coloured aquatints by J. Clark after W. H. Dwarris. 24x15 cm. Full leather with gilt.
GBP 180.00
M'Leod (d. 1820) was surgeon aboard the frigate 'Alceste', the flagship of the small fleet which accompanied Lord Amherst on the second British embassy to China in 1816. While the ambassador was embroiled in the complicated protocol of seeking an audience with the Jiaqing Emperor, Captain McLeod set sail for the island of Lewchew (Okinawa) in the East China Sea.
  Meanwhile, Amherst was failing in his mission to promote better understanding between the two countries, even with the able assistance of Robert Morrison as interpreter. Chinese courtiers persuaded the emperor to detect deep insult in Lord Amherst's delay in presenting his credentials. Actually, the ambassador wanted some time to change into his official dress and to assemble his gifts with due care and attention. The embassy was generally regarded as abortive, because of the difficulty of dealing "with a people so remarkable for their jealousy of foreigners, and want of confidence among themselves." McLeod reunited with the embassy at Canton, but their adventures were not over. On the return journey, the 'Alceste' was wrecked but without loss of life. A small island off the Shantung promontory was renamed Alceste Island in memory of the voyage. Second extended edition. Cordier 2108; Lust 377. Very good firm copy of the second edition.
Subjects: Rare Books Travel
Item 437 in List 214.
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