[ Longmans, London publishers. ] Prospectus for Clarke Abel's 'Personal Observations, made during the Progress of the British Embassy through China', and list of Longmans books 'Published in the Course of August and September [1817]'.

The two items are disbound, but attached to one another. On aged and worn paper. PROSPECTUS: 1p., 12mo. Reads: 'Mr. Abel's Account of the Embassy to China. | In the press, and immediately will be published, | In One Volume, Quarto, illustrated by Maps and other Engravings, of Landscape, Natural History, Geology, &c. with numerous Wood Cuts of Mechanical and Scientific Subjects, | Under the Sanction of the Honourable East India Company, | and dedicated, by Permission, to the Right Honourable Lord Amherst, | Personal Observations, made during the Progress of the British Embassy through China, and on its Voyage to and from that Country, in the years 1816 & 1817. | By Clarke Abel, Physician and Naturalist to the Embassy. | Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row. | This Work will comprise the Author's Personal Narrative of the most interesting Events which befel the British Embassy from the Time of its leaving England to its Return; together with his Remarks on the Geology, Natural History, and Manners of the Countries visited by it.' LIST OF PUBLICATIONS: 4pp., 8vo. Bifolium. Headed: 'Oct. 1817. | The following Works have been Published in the Course of August and September, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London.' Begins with Thomas Moore's 'Lalla Rookh', and also includes Walter Scott's 'Border Antiquities' and Southey's edition of Mallory's 'Morte Darthur'.