Wilkinson, George

Estimate

2,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

Sketches of Chinese customs & manners, in 1811-12… with a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Pulo Penang, China, Canton, Whampoa, and Saint Helena: with some account of the Ladrones. Bath: J. Browne, 1814
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 138mm.), xvi, 370pp., 2 etched plates, contemporary light blue cloth, paper label on spine with author and title in manuscript, uncut, slipcase, second plate offset onto text

Provenance

Thomas Phillipps, press mark

Literature

Löwendahl 776; Lust 387; Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.783

Condition

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Catalogue Note

RARE; THE PHILLIPPS COPY. Part of Wilkinson's voyage was in company with the female convict ship The Friends, bound for Botany Bay. A call at the Cape is described in chapters 5 and 6. A short account of Penang, as also of Singapore, is given, as well as a description of the capture of an officer of the East India Company's vessel Marquis of Ely by Chinese pirates. The return leg included a visit to St Helena.