A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA IN THE YEARS 1792 & 1793:

and also of such European Settlements as were visited on the Voyage: with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhabitants.

To which is annexed an Account of a Journey, made in the Years 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation, being the Remotest Point in the Interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated. The facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal. With a chart of the route.

By John Barrow, Esq., F.R.S.

xviii, (i directions for the placing of the plates), 447 pages, 18 hand coloured aquatint plates after by W. Alexander and Samuel Daniell, engraved by T. Medland, 1 folding hand coloured aquatint plate, 2 double page maps of Rio de Janeiro and Southern Africa, contemporary sprinkled calf sides (worn at the corners) rebacked and with a maroon title label (the leather used is of less good quality and is dry and is fraying at the top and bottom of the spine), without the half title page, plates, maps and contents bright, a very good copy.

Abbey (J.R.) Travel, in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860, number 514 (pages 469/70), ‘Barrow probably met Samuel Daniell while at the Cape….The aquatinting is of excellent quality, number 10 in particular being technically interesting, since it appears to be printed in as many as three colours with one colour added by hand, while number 11 is printed in green, with other colours added by hand.’

‘Barrow was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792–94 as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney. He soon acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, on which he subsequently contributed interesting articles to the Quarterly Review; and the account of the embassy published by Sir George Staunton records many of Barrow's valuable contributions to literature and science connected with China.’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet)