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85 - BARROW (John) A Journey to China, Supplementing Lord Macartney’s Journey; containing observations and descriptions made during the author’s stay at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and while traveling through the Chinese Empire from Beijing to Canton. . . Followed by the account of the embassy sent to Beijing in 1719 by Peter I, Emperor of Russia: translated from English, with notes, by J. Castéra. Paris, F. Buisson, Year XIII (1805). XVI, 32 pp. of publisher’s catalog, 462 pp.; (2)ff., 400 pp.; (2) ff., 392 pp.

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BARROW (John) A Journey to China, Supplementing Lord Macartney’s Journey; containing observations and descriptions made during the author’s stay at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and while traveling through the Chinese Empire from Beijing to Canton. . . Followed by the account of the embassy sent to Beijing in 1719 by Peter I, Emperor of Russia: translated from English, with notes, by J. Castéra. Paris, F. Buisson, Year XIII (1805). XVI, 32 pp. of publisher’s catalog, 462 pp.; (2)ff., 400 pp.; (2) ff., 392 pp. Text only, without the Atlas. First French edition, translated and annotated by Jean-Henri Castéra, published one year after the original English edition.

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