Author: OLIPHANT, Laurence.
Title: Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59.
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860. Original brown cloth gilt (extremities of spine dam.). With coloured lithographed frontispiece showing a winter scene in Japan, and 60 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XVI,645 pp. First American edition. - Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British adventurer, diplomat, author and traveller, was private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-1863) who was appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East to assist in the process of opening up China and Japan to Western trade. During the Second Opium War, he led the bombardment of Canton (Guangzhou) and oversaw the end of the war by signing the Treaty of Tientsin (Tianjin) on 26 June 1858. In August 1858, he signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Japan, whose negotiation was much eased by the recent Harris Treaty between Japan and the United States. The first part gives a detailed survey of the river Yangtze, opening up the hinterland to Western commerce. The second part gives a detailed description of the political and social conditions in Japan. 'The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan (1859) gives a fascinating account of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy' (Encycl. Britannica). - This is a major eyewitness account of the opening of China and Japan. Cordier, B.S., col. 2376; Cordier, B.J., col. 547; Löwendahl 1224; Howgego IV, p.461-462.
Keywords: Asia China India Japan
Title: Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59.
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860. Original brown cloth gilt (extremities of spine dam.). With coloured lithographed frontispiece showing a winter scene in Japan, and 60 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XVI,645 pp. First American edition. - Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British adventurer, diplomat, author and traveller, was private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-1863) who was appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East to assist in the process of opening up China and Japan to Western trade. During the Second Opium War, he led the bombardment of Canton (Guangzhou) and oversaw the end of the war by signing the Treaty of Tientsin (Tianjin) on 26 June 1858. In August 1858, he signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Japan, whose negotiation was much eased by the recent Harris Treaty between Japan and the United States. The first part gives a detailed survey of the river Yangtze, opening up the hinterland to Western commerce. The second part gives a detailed description of the political and social conditions in Japan. 'The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan (1859) gives a fascinating account of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy' (Encycl. Britannica). - This is a major eyewitness account of the opening of China and Japan. Cordier, B.S., col. 2376; Cordier, B.J., col. 547; Löwendahl 1224; Howgego IV, p.461-462.
Keywords: Asia China India Japan
Price: EUR 412.50 = appr. US$ 448.32 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 31456
- Book number: 31456