Barrow, John       
            
        
          Travels in China        
      
            
        London, Cadell and Davies   1804       
            
        xii, 632pp; 8 plates (5 col); 27x22cm   Half-bound leather   Covers rubbed      
            
        This copy lacks pages ix to xii which are replaced by photocopies. Includes eight engravings, five with aquatinting, and translations and musical notations of popular songs.  John Barrow was private secretary to the Earl of Macartney, Ambassador to China        
      
                
 
      