Narrative of a Voyage to Java, China, and the Great Loo-Choo Island. With Accounts of Sir Murray Maxwell's Attack on the Chinese Batteries, and of an Interview with Napoleon Buonaparte, at St. Helena. & Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. In Two Parts.
Published by London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers., 1840
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Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc.
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6 1/2 inches x 10 3/4 in., map of route to and from China; title-page; author's February 24th, 1840 preface; contents; map of Island of Loo-Choo. [6]pp, pp. [1]-81; title-page to part one of the Chili title; advertisement to the Sixth Edition, March, 1840; contents. vi, pp. [1]-77; title-page to part two; contents. iv, pp. [1]-80, including appendixes. Top-edges of the Java title: pp. 7-24 show rough edges from careless opening, some tea stains to pp. 49-67. Most pages of the Chili title are unopened. Dark brown, ribbed cloth with elaborate, blindstamped floral design on both covers, light yellow coated endpapers. The cloth spine and sides have been replaced with later, brown cloth, with later cloth inner hinges added, the cover corners show wear, stains, abrasions to page fore-edges. Scarce title that republishes these two earlier works by Captain Basil Hall, in one volume. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-down endpaper. From the author's 1840 Preface: "The hourly increasing interest of the great Chinese question, and the probability of our being obliged, in self-defence, to occupy some insular position in those seas, have induced the author to republish, in so cheap a form as to be accessible to every class of readers, a work which may help to throw some light on those remote, but very important national topics. [-] The details of an interview which the author was fortunate enough to obtain with Napoleon Buonaparte, at St. Helena, are also given, as the conversation of the ex-Emperor related chiefly to the incidents of the Voyage.".…
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- Title
- Narrative of a Voyage to Java, China, and the Great Loo-Choo Island. With Accounts of Sir Murray Maxwell's Attack on the Chinese Batteries, and of an Interview with Napoleon Buonaparte, at St. Helena. & Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. In Two Parts.
- Author
- Hall, Captain Basil (1788-1844).
- Publisher
- London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers.
- Publication year
- 1840
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
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