Author: LILJEVALCH, CARL FREDRIK:
Title: Chinas handel, industri och statsförfattning, jemte underrättelser om chinesernes folkbildning, seder och bruk, samt notiser om Japan, Siam m.fl. orter. Stockholm, J.Beckman, 1848.
Description: . Pp. viii, 407. With 6 plates, of which 4 are coloured lithographs. Copy with wide margins, front edge untrimmed. Contemporary half calf, flat spine with blind stamped decoration and title lettered in gilt. Bookplate (Carl Jedvard Bonde). Copy of Ericsberg. A lovely copy of the first edition.Carl Fredrik Liljevalch (1796-1840) was a successful merchant who was sent to China to find out about trading possibilities and to negotiate a treaty of commerce. In 1845 he left London with an East India Company ship and arrived in Singapore in July the same year. From there he made short trips to Java and Batavia. In October 1845 he arrived in Canton and also visited Macao, Shanghai and other important Chinese harbours. His account contains an accurate description of the Chinese culture, economy, the monetary system and trading (opium, metals, forest products, tea, silk, cotton, oils and whale fishing). The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Sweden/Norway and China was concluded in 1847, and is included. Contains short sections on Japan and Siam. Cordier BS 86 & BJ 505.

Keywords: East Asia, china, japan, siam, chinese, kina, east, far east, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, travel, voyages, exploration,


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