Travel
HALL, Basil
Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices ... and a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language, by H.J. Clifford, Esq.
Murray, London 1818. First edition, 4to., xvi, 222, cxxx, [lxxii]pp., 9 engraved plates including 8 hand-coloured aquatints, by Robert Havell after drawings by William Havell from sketches by members of crew, 6 maps and plans, some folding, some light offsetting onto plates as often, contemporary mottled calf gilt, sometime rebacked preserving spine, covers with gilt border, spine in 6 compartments, red morocco lettering pieces to second and fifth, others richly gilt, an excellent copy.
This expedition formed part of the Amherst embassy and explored the relatively little known East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Visits were made to Korea and the Ryukyu Archipelago. Korea had been sketchily explored by Europeans, but it was not until the "Alceste" and "Lyra" expeditions that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus. Abbey Travel 558; Cordier Sinica 3009; Prideaux 251, 338; Tooley 241; Hill I, 134.
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