Title: An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China... wherein the Cities, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, etc. in their Passages from Canton to Peking, are Ingeniously Descib'd Author: Nieuhoff, Jan Place: London Publisher: Printed by the author Date: 1673 Description: Translated by John Ogilby [2], 431 pp. Illus. with 9 (of 18) copper-engraved plates including added pictorial title (this last signed in the plate by Wenceslaus Hollar ; 94 copper-engravings in the text; folding plan of Canton. (folio) 39x24 cm. 15¼x9½"), later mottled suede. Second Edition in English. John Ogilby's publication of his translation of Nieuhoff's important account of China; this edition appeared four years after the first edition of Ogilby's translation. This copy lacks the folding map but does have the folding plan of Canton Lot Amendments Condition: Lower corners and spine foot worn, shaken; first 10 leaves with significant marginal repairs, particularly the two title pages; various other leaves throughout, including plates, have reinforcement at corners or edges, occasional contemporary marginalia in brown ink, a few dampstains; fair to good, sold with all faults. Item number: 206216
Title: An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China... wherein the Cities, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, etc. in their Passages from Canton to Peking, are Ingeniously Descib'd Author: Nieuhoff, Jan Place: London Publisher: Printed by the author Date: 1673 Description: Translated by John Ogilby [2], 431 pp. Illus. with 9 (of 18) copper-engraved plates including added pictorial title (this last signed in the plate by Wenceslaus Hollar ; 94 copper-engravings in the text; folding plan of Canton. (folio) 39x24 cm. 15¼x9½"), later mottled suede. Second Edition in English. John Ogilby's publication of his translation of Nieuhoff's important account of China; this edition appeared four years after the first edition of Ogilby's translation. This copy lacks the folding map but does have the folding plan of Canton Lot Amendments Condition: Lower corners and spine foot worn, shaken; first 10 leaves with significant marginal repairs, particularly the two title pages; various other leaves throughout, including plates, have reinforcement at corners or edges, occasional contemporary marginalia in brown ink, a few dampstains; fair to good, sold with all faults. Item number: 206216
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