On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago. A Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seabord of Korea and Manchuria.

Name: On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago. A Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seabord of Korea and Manchuria.
Author: Blakeney, William.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 353 [bound without pp. 231-4, as usual]; port. frontis., full-page illusts. and illusts. to text, 19 maps and charts inc. many folding; bookplate of Francis Gray Smart, near-fine in the original decorated cloth.

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An excellent overview of naval and military activities from 1856 to 1862 in the Far East. During the Crimean War a Russian squadron was pursued by a small British contingent, but as a result of the latter’s ignorance of the local coastline the Russians were able to make their way to the safety of the Amur river. In 1856 the British sent two survey vessels to the region, and the author was a surveyor on board one of them, H.M.S. Actaeon. The vessels’ assistance during the Second Opium War helped to establish British influence in the area, and the survey work extended to the coasts of Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Manchuria. The illustrations include a large extending panorama of Hong Kong, and charts of the Actaeon’s tracks during the period.

Author Blakeney, William.

Date 1902

Binding Original decorated cloth

Publisher London: Elliot Stock

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Pages xx, 353

Price: £975.00

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