[China] Voyage en Chine,

a la suite de l'ambassade de lord Macartney, par John Barrow; traduit de l'anglais par M.J.B.J. Breton. Paris, printed by Fournier Frères for widow Lepetit, 1807, 7 volumes, incl. atlas with 21 engravings on 20 plates (all but one folding, 2 plates hand-coloured), contemporary uniform half leather with vellum outer corners, gilt back with morocco title and volume shields and owner's initials "G.D.", 12mo (good and attractively bound set with small defects).

Bibliothèque Portative des Voyages XXXVI-XLII. Very extensively on the Macartney Embassy and the subsequent voyages (1793-1795, the first British diplomatic mission to China), see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macartney_Embassy. The atlas includes a fine hand-coloured stipple-engraved portrait of Van-ta-gin, hand-coloured portraits of a Chinese and a Khoikhoi, various views of Beijing, Chinese weapons and instruments and a rice huller.