Voyage of his majesty's ship Alceste, to China, Corea, and the Island of Lewchew, with an account of her shipwreck.

8vo: [2]-339 pp.; 6 pl. (without map of the Yellow and Eastern Seas).

Later half leather with corners, cloth on covers, gilt-orn. flat spine, black leather title label, marbled sides (corners, spine and joints sl. rubbed, sm. def. at tail).

Later ed. (1st 1817; Abbey states 1819 for the 3rd ed. and 1820 for the 4th) of this expedition account of the British naval ships the Alceste and the Lyra under the command of Captain Murray Maxwell from February 1816 till August 1817. The aim was to transport Lord Amherst's Embassy to China and explore the little-known East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. The journey out was uneventful, but on the return, the Alceste struck a reef in the Java Sea; her wreck was subsequently plundered and burned by Malayan pirates. Ill. with a front.-portrait of Murray Maxwell and 5 full-page hand-col. aquatinted pl. by I. Clark after M'Leod depicting "Islanders of Sir James Hall's Group", "Corean chief and attendants", "Fort Maxwell", etc. Appendix with i.a. names and location of the Lewchewan Islands and a sm. dictionary of Lewchewan words.
ref. Cp. Cordier Sinica 2108 & Japonica 468 (both state 1819 for the 3rd ed., no mention of the plates). - Cp. Abbey Travel 559 and Lipperheide 1529 (other ed.). - Cp. Von Wenckstern, Japanese Bibliography, 473.
Prov. J.D. tenere cursum (bookpl.).