The opium question and the Northern campaigns : (signed presentation copy)

including notices of some strictures by reviewers of the former ; and indications of the salient points of the latter, down to the Treaty of Nanking … … Canton : [s.n.], 1875. Large octavo, original printed wrappers with bookseller’s ticket of F. R. Wetmore, Yokohama, (brittle and chipped along edges, as usual), stamp from New York State Library to upper wrapper, pp [20], 26, [17]-68, [14]; internally clean and sound; with a signed presentation inscription from Nye to the upper wrapper.

American diplomat and merchant Gideon Nye’s study of the First Opium War (1839-1842) and its political and economic consequences.

Rare.