Author: Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806

An embassy to China : being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793-1794
Date2004
Publish_locationLondon
PublisherFolio Society
CollectionRicci Institute Library [A8]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfFolio Cabinet 1
Call NumberDS708.M14 2004
Descriptionxviii, 314 p. : color ill. ; 27 cm.
Note

An embassy to China : being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793-1794 / illustrated with watercolour sketches made during the Embassy by William Alexander ; introduced by Jonathan Spence ; edited by J.L. Cranmer-Byng.
Spine title: Lord Macartney, An Embassy to China.
In slip case. Maps on lining papers.
Includes index.

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SubjectGreat Britain--Foreign relations--China Qianlong 乾隆, Emperor of China, 1711-1799 China--Description and travel--Early works to 1800 Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806--Diaries Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806--Travel--China
authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China
Date1798
Publish_locationLondon
PublisherPrinted for G. Nicol
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives, Rare Book Cabinet
Call NumberDS708.A227 S718 1798
Description3 v. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
NoteAn authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : Including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe, with notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home, being the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago, the port of Rio de Janeiro in South America, the islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam, the coast of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pule Condore, and Cochin-China : Taken chiefly from the papers of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty's embassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China, Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the expedition, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy / by Sir George Staunton, baronet, honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Oxford, fellow of the Royal Society of London, his Majesty's secretary of embassy to the Emperor of China, and minister plenipotentiary in the absence of the embassador ; in two volumes, with engravings ; beside a folio volume of plates.

Library has v. 2 only.
Digital ed.: [Staunton-Embassy.pdf (v.1-3)]
Vol.1 Internet Archive.
Vol.2 Internet Archive.
Vol.3 Internet Archive.

Links to this plus French, German and Dutch editions online at Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0.

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SubjectVoyages and travels China--Politics and government--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 China--Foreign relations--Great Britain Great Britain--Foreign relations--China China--Description and travel--17th-18th centuries Macartney Embassy to China, 1793
LCCN17-3793
Kangxi yu Luoma shijie guanxi wenshu 康熙與羅馬使節關係文書
Date1973
Publish_locationTaibei 臺北
PublisherTaibei xuesheng shuju 臺北學生書局
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition影印本
LanguageChinese 中文
Record_typeBook (Photocopy)
SeriesZhongguo shixue congshu xubian 中國史學叢書續編 ; 23
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberBV2240.C5 C47 1973x
DescriptionPhotocopy [308 p. ; 22 cm.]
NoteKangxi yu Luoma shijie guanxi wenshu 康熙與羅馬使節關係文書 ; Qianlong Yingshi jinjian ji 乾隆英使覲見記 / Qing Shengzu ; Chen Yuan shi 清聖祖 ; 陳垣識.(1st work). [Majia'erni yuanzhu ; Liu Fu yi 馬戞爾尼原著 ; 劉復譯] (2nd work).

Reprint of the 1932 and 1916 eds. published by Gugong bowuyuan, Peking, and Zhonghua shuju, Shanghai, respectively.
2nd work is translation of Macartney's Embassy to China : being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Qianlong, 1793-1794.

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SubjectChina--Description and travel--17th-18th centuries Catholic Church--Relations--China--Sources Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806--Diaries Great Britain--Foreign relations--China--Sources Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806. Embassy to China--Translations into Chinese
Seriesfoo 128
LCCN75-835090
Yingshi yejian Qianlong jishi 英使謁見乾隆紀實. [An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. Chinese]
Date1997
Publish_locationShanghai 上海
PublisherShanghai shuhua chubanshe 上海書畫出版社
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition第1版
LanguageChinese 中文[簡體字]
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS708.S7812 1997
Description571 p. , [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
NoteYingshi yejian Qianlong jishi 英使謁見乾隆紀實 = An authentic account of an embassy from the king of Great Britain to the Emperor of China / [Ying] Sidangdong zhu ; Ye Duyi yi [英] 斯當東著 ; 葉篤義譯.
Full English title: An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary ... taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, His Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the expedition, and other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy.
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SubjectChina--Description and travel--17th-18th centuries Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806 Great Britain--Foreign relations--China--Sources China--Foreign relations--Great Britain--Sources Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806. Embassy to China--Translations into Chinese Macartney Embassy to China, 1793
ISBN780622307X