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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 by Hall, Basil - 1818

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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 by Hall, Basil - 1818

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

by Hall, Basil

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London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. 8 hand-coloured aquatints, 1 uncoloured aquatint, and 1 engraved plate Drawn by William Havell, Calcutta, and Engraved by Robert Havel & son; 5 maps (2 folding). xv, [i], 222, cxxx (appendix), [72] (vocabulary) pp. 4to (280 x 220 mm). Modern crimson half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, light spotting throughout but a very good copy. First edition. 8 hand-coloured aquatints, 1 uncoloured aquatint, and 1 engraved plate Drawn by William Havell, Calcutta, and Engraved by Robert Havel & son; 5 maps (2 folding). xv, [i], 222, cxxx (appendix), [72] (vocabulary) pp. 4to (280 x 220 mm). An account of Hall's voyage to China aboard the Lyra in company with the frigate Alceste to convey Lord Amherst's embassy. While the embassy conducted its business, Hall took the opportunity to explore "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 expedition in 1816-17, under Captains Murray Maxwell and Basil Hall, that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus" (Hill). Voyage... gives the first full western account of Korea, with notes on its people and culture, detailed nautical charts, and a basic vocabulary of the Loochoo language. The Alceste was wrecked on the return voyage in the Gaspar Strait off Sumatra.

A very good copy with generous margins and the oft-lacking half-title and eight finely hand-coloured aquatints depicting scenes and customs of Korean culture. Abbey TRAVEL 558; Cordier SINICA 3009; Prideaux, pp. 251, 338; Tooley (1954), No. 241; Hill 749
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  • Format/Binding 8 hand-coloured aquatints, 1 uncoloured aquatint, and 1 engraved plate Drawn by William Havell, Calcutta, and Engraved by Robert
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  • Publisher John Murray
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  • Date Published 1818
  • Keywords Travel & Exploration | Color Plate | China

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Paperback / softback. New. Basil Hall (1788-1844) commanded the brig HMS Lyra as part of Lord Amherst's 1816 embassy to the Qing court in China. This 1818 account describes the mission's visits to the west coast of Korea and to Okinawa. Richly illustrated, the book describes the local cultures, languages and geography.
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London: John Murray, 1818., 1818. And A Vocablulary of the Loo-Choo Language. First printing. 4to. Frontispiece hand-colored aquatint. Half-title, xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72] pp. Loo-Choo Language. Illustrated with 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate. Full calf binding with marbled endpapers. The spinal calf is very worn and darkened, wear at the extremities, contents tight with scattered foxing; dust soil title page. Bookplate of John Sober front pastedown. Very good.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
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London: John Murray, 1818. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Recent quarterbinding. 27cm. Foxing on illustrations. Bookplate of famed actor John Barrymore (along with a recent penciled note stating that this book was sold for $24.80 as lot B-73 at an auction in 1941 (after the actor's death). Letter (tipped in) and inscription by the author's sister Magdalene (who died in childbirth in 1823 while married to Henry Harvey). The letter and inscription appear to be to the same person, addressed in the inscription as M. Le Chevalier. We believe that the recipient was Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre.
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4to. London: John Murray, 1818. 4to, 2 p.l., [vii]-xv, [1] plate list, 222, cxxx, [72]. With a frontispiece and 7 plates all color lithographs by Havell, 2 uncolored plates, and 5 maps (3 folding). Modern quarter blue morocco lettered in gilt, by Zaehnsdorf (1962). A very fine untrimmed copy, partially unopened, with Hall's clipped signature at the front. § The Amherst embassy and an early account of KoreaFirst edition of one of the earliest accounts of Korea by a European. Hall captained the sloop Lyra which, with the Alceste, brought the Amherst Embassy to China. He made a voyage to Korea and to the island of Loo-Choo (present day Okinawa). “Korea had been sketchily explored by Europeans, but it was not until the Alceste and Lyra expedition of 1816-17, under Captains Murray Maxwell and Basil Hall, that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus” (Hill). The substantial appendices include charts, tables of observations, a meteorological journal, an abstract of the Lyra’s voyage, a… Read More
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