Verlag: London, Curzon Pr. [u.a.]., 1974
Anbieter: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Schweiz
New impr. XI, 622 S. OLn., OU. Sprache: englisch.
London [1974], Curzon. Green cloth, very good, a facsimile reprint of the London 1909 edition, 662p., 7 b.w. plates, 2 folding maps, covers a bit spotted, contents clean, solid, in dust jacket. . * An excellent reference resource covers the beginnings of English trade in the Far East, East India Co., trade at Can- ton, monopoly of the Hong merchants, diplomacy & embassies the second embassy, Load Napier at Canton. Opium trade, Capt Elliot's policy, Hong merchants in bankruptcy, opium progress. High commissioner Lin, surrender and destruction of opium, beginning of hostilities, the War, Treaty of Nanking. . *.