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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition, a very fine set complete in 2 vols: large 4to and folio Atlas, finely bound in modern French half calf and marbled boards. Text: pp. (iv)+ (236), uncut with wide margins, original wrappers bound-in. Atlas with title-page and 8 numbered maps and charts (3 single-page & 5 double-page, including 1 in colour), prepared by the Ministry of Marine. These include plans of Shanghai and Chefoo, Tientsin, and harbour entrances. With full listing of British naval and merchant ships, and their captains, French ships and armed troops of the Allied Forces of the invasion. Appended with ancillary documents and correspondence with Prince Kung, further ship and troop lists of Chinese and Allied forces, and Admiral Hope's report on the taking of the Taku Forts and entry into Tientsin. Elegantly printed and presented. A detailed record of the culmination of the Second Opium War compiled from official French documents by naval lieutenant Pallu; from the attack on the Pei-ho [Taku] Forts in June 1859 to 9 December 1860. With the march on Peking, the plundering of the Summer Palace and the near complete destruction of Yuan Ming-yuan, designed by the Jesuits for the K'ang-hsi emperor in 1702. The 1860 ratification of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin opened the New Territories and further Treaty Ports to foreign commerce and diplomatic privilege. Not in Cordier; Not in Lowendahl.