RARE 1851 VOYAGES & TRAVELS CAPTAIN BASIL HALL Java, Loo-Choo, EMBASSY TO CHINA

This is a very rarely seen compilation volume of 'Voyages and Travels Around The World' being:

A Narrative of A Voyage to Java, China and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Captain Basil Hall, 1865, 81p.
First published in 1818, this contains an account of Sir Murray Maxwell's attack on the Chinese batteries and of an interview with Napoleon at St. Helena.

Extracts From a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 by Captain Basil Hall, 1851 - Part 1 77p & Part 2 78p.

Letters From Abroad to Kindred at Home, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Volume 1, 1841 130p.
Catherine Sedgick recounts her frequent contact with Basil Hall and family in her account of her travels through Germany and Italy.

Journal of The Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China 1816-18, Rt. Hon. Henry Ellis, 1851, 128p.
This is a revised edition of  the voyage to and from China and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho, to the return of the Canton. 

This wonderfully collection is in very good, clean condition with little age-related marking, though the opening few pages are loose, please see detailed photos. 

It measures 9.25 inches by 6.75 inches.

The auction for these very rare volumes starts at a very low price with no reserve.

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