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Lot 789

STAUNTON, SIR GEORGE: 'AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN TO THE EMPEROR OF CHINA'

second edition, volumes 1-2, printed by W. Bulmer for C. Nicol, London 1798, gilt tooled brown leather bound with titled spine, Bridehead bookplates and retaining some illustrations to the text in volume one and portrait frontispiece (2)

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Estimate: £150 - £250
Hammer price: £480
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Cracked, scuffed and worn to the spines with some evidence of heat damage to both volumes. The boards are bumped to corners and with some staining internally. Volume 2 has some water staining. Internally the volumes appear to be complete, although there are not many plates.

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