Narrative Of the Earl Of Elgin\'s Mission To China and Japan, In the Years 1857, \'58, \'59

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. Full leather. Near fine. First edition of Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan by Laurence Oliphant.. Octavo, [two volumes], xiii, [1], 492pp; xi, [1], 496pp. Full brown tree calf, decorative gilt border on covers. Title in gilt over black morocco spine… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons,, 1859. An important eyewitness to the events of the Second Opium War First edition, uncommon in the original cloth, with the armorial bookplate of Samuel Briggs (1776-1868), a key British diplomatic and mercantile presence in Egypt throughout the first half of the 19th century. He was appointed consul at Alexandria by the Levant Company… Read more about this item

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860.Original brown cloth gilt (extremities of spine dam.). With coloured lithographed frontispiece showing a winter scene in Japan, and 60 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XVI,645 pp.First American edition. - Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British adventurer, diplomat, author and traveller, was private secretary to Lord Elgin and accompanied him to Calcutta, Hongkong, Canton, Tientsin and Yedo.… Read more about this item

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 - Volume 1.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 - Volume 2.