History of the Insurrection in China;

Important eye-witness account of the outbreak of the Taiping rebellion, co-written by the doctor and an interpreter of the French Embassy; this edition the most complete, including a final postscript, “comprising the events that have happened since the date of our last publication.”

8vo. Original red-brown embossed cloth, title gilt to spine, pagoda in blind to both boards. Portrait frontispiece, folding map. Light browning, contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, light shelf-wear, spine sunned, but a very nice copy.