CHINA, TWO VOLUMES, NIEUHOFF AND MONTANUS

Nieuhoff, John. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China, delivered by their Excellencies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking; wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously described. London: printed by the author, 1673, second English edition, folio (398 x 265mm.), engraved title-page, printed title in red and black, double page engraved map of China, 23 engraved plates and 117 text engravings, contemporary calf, [ESTC R3880; Wing N1153], bookplate of William Horton, joints repaired Montanus, Arnoldus. 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. London: Tho. Johnson, 1671, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, folio (398 x 255mm.), 2 dedication leaves, engraved additional title, printed title in red and black, 2 double-page maps, 38 engraved plates and 55 engravings in the text, folio, contemporary calf with arms gilt of William Stuart (1798-1874), [ESTC R5629; Wing D242], erased inkstamp, joints repaired

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