Critical and historical essays (2x) [and China (2x)]

contributed to the Edinburgh Review. Lord Macaulay. [2 volumes] London. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. 1861. 2 volumes, small 8vo, brown morocco, title on spine with typographic illustration and embroideries in gilt stamping, marbled endpapers and marbled edges, VI,(1),414 and (1),434 pp., text in 2 columns per page, some scribbling on front board volume 2, else very good copies.

China: A general description of that Empire and its inhabitants; with the history of foreign intercourse down to the events which produced the dissolution of 1857. Sir John Francis Davis. [2 volumes]. London. John Murray. 1857. 2 volumes, small 8vo, red morocco, title on spine with typographic illustrations and embroideries in gilt stamping, marbled endpapers and marbled edges, XX,480 and VII,(1),428 pp., complete with numerous illustrations in the text. Endpapers with minor imperfects, annotations on endpaper, else very good copies (total 4).