Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China and similar items

Birkitts Books presents ... Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China After the Wreck of the Kite, Third Edition Author: John Lee Scott Publisher: W. H. Dalton Release Date: 1842 Seller Category: History Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Good Sku: 240101022 Notes: Quarter Leather binding with marbled boards, marbled design on the edges. Binding is sound, writing in pencil on front end-page, noted faults are damp-staining on some pages and occasional foxing. See scans. This is an autobiographical account, written by the merchant sailor John Lee Scott, of his ?shipwreck and subsequent imprisonment in the Celestial Empire? in 1840, during the First Anglo-Chinese or so-called ?Opium? War. The book was first published in 1841 Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!