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(Ogilby's China)
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Description
Nieuhoff, Jan. 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, &c., in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously describ'd...With an Appendix of several Remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher. Englished ... by John Ogilby. London: Printed by the author [Ogilby], 1673
Folio (16 ¼ x 10 ¼ in.; 412 x 260 mm). Engraved title by Wenceslas Hollar dated 1668, letterpress title printed in red and black, double-page map of China by Hollar, 18 engraved plates, 94 quarter-page engraved text illustrations, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; a few small marginal dampstains, light dampstains in upper portion of quire Kkk, and in lower margin and upper portion of last 3 leaves, lower outer corner of leaf Bbb1 soiled. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, gold-stamped title label "Ogilby's China Emb I"; rebacked with original spine laid down, extremities rubbed.
With:
Arnoldus, Montanus [i.e. Olfert Dapper]. 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...Englished ...by John Ogilby. London: Printed by Thomas Johnson for the author [Ogilby], 1671
Folio (16 ½ x 10 ¼ in.; 420 x 260 mm). Engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 2 double-page engraved maps, 38 engraved plates (of which 32 are double-page), 57 quarter-page engraved text illustrations, engraved or woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; lacking two maps not mentioned in "Directions," fold tear in lower margin of one plate entering image, a few minor marginal spots and dampstains, interesting light offset image on pages 616-617 from a still wet titlepage, four small mended tears without loss. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, gold-stamped title label "Ogilby's China Emb. II III"; rebacked with original spine laid down, edges mended and scuffs renewed.
Folio (16 ¼ x 10 ¼ in.; 412 x 260 mm). Engraved title by Wenceslas Hollar dated 1668, letterpress title printed in red and black, double-page map of China by Hollar, 18 engraved plates, 94 quarter-page engraved text illustrations, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; a few small marginal dampstains, light dampstains in upper portion of quire Kkk, and in lower margin and upper portion of last 3 leaves, lower outer corner of leaf Bbb1 soiled. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, gold-stamped title label "Ogilby's China Emb I"; rebacked with original spine laid down, extremities rubbed.
With:
Arnoldus, Montanus [i.e. Olfert Dapper]. 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...Englished ...by John Ogilby. London: Printed by Thomas Johnson for the author [Ogilby], 1671
Folio (16 ½ x 10 ¼ in.; 420 x 260 mm). Engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 2 double-page engraved maps, 38 engraved plates (of which 32 are double-page), 57 quarter-page engraved text illustrations, engraved or woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; lacking two maps not mentioned in "Directions," fold tear in lower margin of one plate entering image, a few minor marginal spots and dampstains, interesting light offset image on pages 616-617 from a still wet titlepage, four small mended tears without loss. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, gold-stamped title label "Ogilby's China Emb. II III"; rebacked with original spine laid down, edges mended and scuffs renewed.
Literature
Cordier 2347; Cordier 2349; Landwehr VOC 543; Landwehr VOC 545; Nieuhoff: Wing N-1153; Montanus: Wing M-2484
Catalogue Note
Second and First editions in English, respectively. Some of the first views of China available to the western reader. The latter work was mistakenly ascribed to Arnoldus Montanus, but it is a translation of Olfert Dapper's work published the year before in Dutch. The volumes are bound uniformly, with title labels suggesting a publisher's binding designed to give uniform identity to his product.