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Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan

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Author: Oliphant, Laurence
Title: Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59
Place Published: Edinburgh and London
Publisher:William Blackwood and Sons
Date Published: [1859]
Description:

2 volumes. [4], xiii, [1], 492; xi, [1], 496 pp. With 20 color lithographed plates; 4 (of 5) folding maps; woodcuts in the text. (8vo) 22x14 cm (8¾x5½"), original blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.

In 1857 Lord Elgin became High Commissioner to China and traveled to China and Japan in 1858-59, where he led the bombing of Canton and oversaw the end of the Second Opium War by signing the Treaties of Tianjin on 26 June 1858. Laurence Oliphant was a noted traveler, author and sometime diplomatist, serving as Elgin's private secretary on this expedition. Bookplates of Sophie H. Marshall on front pastedowns, additional ink signature on front free endpaper of volume I.

Condition

Wear and soiling to cloth, rear joint of vol. 1 cracked and nearly detached, bumped corners; hinges cracked; scattered foxing and toning to pages, rear map in vol. 2 has been removed; very good.

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