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Voyage to Loo-choo, and other places in the eastern seas, in the year 1816. Including an account of Captain Maxwell's attack on the batteries at Canton; and notes of an interview with Buonaparte at St. Helena, in August 1817. By Captain Basil Hall, R.N. F.R.S.

Captain Basil Hall

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/3133

Author

Imprint

London ; Edinburgh: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. ; Waugh & Innes, 1832.

Physical Description

[2], ii, 322 p. ; 15 cm.

Provenance

Front free-endpaper is inscribed in ink: 'Captain Basil Hall's Works in 15 vols. are Presented by the Author's Desire, and with His Respectful compliments, to the Library of the Royal Academy. London 15.th Dec.r 1834.'

Binding Note

Publisher's half calf, brown moiré cloth-covered boards, maroon morocco spine-label lettered 'HALL'S VOYAGE TO LOO CHOO'.

Name as Subject

Captain Basil Hall, Travel
Napoléon I Emperor of France, Emperor of the French

Subject

Asia, Description and travel
Ryukyu Islands, Description and travel
Korea, Description and travel
Voyages and travel
Seafaring

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