Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. China. Report for the Year 1889 on the Trade of Kewkiang. Foreign Office 1890 Annual Series No. 704.
London. HMSO. 1890. Colour folding map, 13pp, original wrappers, quarto, very good copy. P.D. Coates, author of The China Consuls...(Hong Kong, OUP, 1988) states (p. 171) that for a considerable time, consular promotion of British trade seems to have been largely confined to recommendations and hints in the annual trade..... More