LORD GEORGE MACARTNEY - 1737-1806 Voyage dans l’intérieur de la Chine et en Tartarie, fait dans les années 1792, 1793 et 1794 rédigé sur les papier de Lord Macartney, sur ceux du Commodore Erasme Gower, et des autres personnes attachés à l’Ambassade, par Sir Georges Staunton; traduit de l’anglais, avec des notes, par J. Castéra.- Seconde édition, augmentée d’un précis de l’histoire de la Chine, par le traducteur, et du voyage en Chine et en Tartarie de J. C. Huttner...- A Paris: Chez F. Buisson, An 7 (1799).- 5 vols.: il.; 20 cm.- E. Georges Macartney (1737-1806), British statesman, colonial governor and diplomat, headed an embassy to China with the aim to establishing trade relations with this country. Second edition of the account of his trip, quite increased especially concerning the illustrations, having first been published just a year earlier. The collationof each of the volumes is the following: tome premier: [4], CXXXVI, 311 p.; tome second: [4], 408 p.; tome troisième: [4], 414, [2] p.; tome quatrième: [4], 380 p.; tome cinquième: [4], 350 p. The set of five volumes includes 39 engravings of which a portrait of the author and a map are on the first volume and three large folding maps at the end of the fifth volume. All the engravings, including the maps are numbered from I to XXXIX. Trimmed copy sometimes at the expense of the subtitle of some engravings, especially panoramas. Some signatures slightly disjointed; final maps badly folded and one tear-ripped but not lacking support. However, it is complete and solid. Entire calf bindings of the time, fatigued but secured.