BARROW, John (1764-1848). Travels in China. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Second edition.
4to (257 x 205 mm). Hand-colored engraved portrait frontispieces, 7 engraved plates (4 hand-colored, watermarked 1804). (Some minor spotting, light offsetting.) Contemporary marbled calf (rebacked, preserving original spine). Second edition. "As a writer Barrow is best known for his Mutiny on the Bounty (1831) but, during his lifetime, his accounts of his travels in eastern Asia and southern Africa, published between 1801 and 1807, were better known and more influential" (DNB). Abbey Travel, 531n.
Provenance: Sold Sotheby's London, 15 November 2001, lot 371.
