History of the Insurrection in China; With Notices of the Christianity, Creed, and Proclamations of the Insurgents. Translated from the French, With a Supplementary Chapter, Narrating the Most Recent Events, by John Oxenford.

Published by London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853

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First edition of this description of the Taiping Rebellion, co-written by two officials attached to the French diplomatic corps in Canton in the 1840s. Callery (1810-1862), a missionary-sinologist, served as an interpreter, while Yvan (1803-1873) was the embassy physician. They shared an interest in natural history and plant collecting, Callery giving his name to the species of pear introduced to Europe from China. By the outbreak of the rebellion, both men had returned to Paris. Their history is strengthened by eyewitness dispatches sent by acquaintances still in China. It was first published in French (1853), and an American edition followed the same year. Cordier 645 (second British edition); Löwendahl 1138 (first American edition). Octavo. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map with red marks added by hand; 16 pp. advertisements dated September 1853 at rear. Original brown morocco-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards decoratively blocked in blind, yellow coated endpapers, top edge untrimmed, binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. on rear pastedown. Recent bookseller pencilling on front endpaper. Light bumping and rubbing to cloth, small stub tear, most gatherings unopened: a near-fine copy.…

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Title
History of the Insurrection in China; With Notices of the Christianity, Creed, and Proclamations of the Insurgents. Translated from the French, With a Supplementary Chapter, Narrating the Most Recent Events, by John Oxenford.
Author
CALLERY, Joseph-Marie, & Melchior Yvan.
Publisher
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853
Edition
1st Edition

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