An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperador of China; includind cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling thhrough that ancient empire, and a small part of chinese tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by his majesty's ship the lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the east India Company's service, to the Yellow sea, and Gulf of Pekin as well as of their retur to Europe... taken chiefly from papers of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney...Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of the Expedition/ by George Staunton... . - London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1797 . - 2 vol. (XXXIV, 518 p. ; XX, 626 p.)
