[Dapper, Olfert (1639-1689)]

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East India Company of the united provinces to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartary [translated by John Ogilby]. London: Thomas Johnson for the Author, 1671

folio (417 x 262mm.), [4], 723, [1 (blank)] pp., title printed in red and black, illustration: engraved allegorical additional title, 2 double-page maps, 38 plates (including 32 double-page), and 57 quarter-page illustrations in text, engraved or woodcut head- and tail-pieces and intials, binding: contemporary panelled calf gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands gilt, lettered in the second on a red morocco label "Mr Ogilbys China Tom.2", marbled edges, rust hole on B4 slightly affecting a couple of letters, some light browning or spotting to text and plates, joints split, foot of spine rather chipped, corners rubbed, slight wear to covers

Literature

Cordier, Sinica 2349; VOC 545; Lust 525; Wing M2484

Catalogue Note

first edition in english of a work by Olfert Dapper first published the year before in Dutch, mistakenly ascribed by Ogilby to Arnoldus Montanus (1625?-1683) on the title page. The spine is labelled "Tom 2", i.e. volume 2 and was intended by Ogilby as a companion volume to Nieuhoff's Embassy to China, see lot 3227.