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China.- Oliphant (Laurence) Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 5 folding maps and 20 lithograph plates, some chromolithograph, some tinted, wood-engraved illustrations, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, some foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines a little dulled, else fine, 8vo, Edinburgh & London, 1859.

⁂ Oliphant served as Lord Elgin's private secretary on his mission to China and Japan from 1857-59, which saw the end of the Second Opium War with the signing of the Treaties of Tianjin in 1858.

Description

China.- Oliphant (Laurence) Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 5 folding maps and 20 lithograph plates, some chromolithograph, some tinted, wood-engraved illustrations, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, some foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines a little dulled, else fine, 8vo, Edinburgh & London, 1859.

⁂ Oliphant served as Lord Elgin's private secretary on his mission to China and Japan from 1857-59, which saw the end of the Second Opium War with the signing of the Treaties of Tianjin in 1858.

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