Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 1,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
IDES, EVERT YSBRANT. Three Years Travel from Moscow over-land to China. 30 engraved plates; double-page folding engraved map of the Russian Empire. [12], 210 [i. e., 212] pages, including engraved additional title dated 1705. 4to, 249x189 mm, contemporary panelled calf, worn, rebacked, top of spine chipped, cover corners worn through, endpapers renewed; heavy browning or foxing of text, marginal soiling and foxing on plates, clean tear in F2, rust hole in O3 affecting a few letters, map frayed along top edge and trimmed close to rule border on the other 3 sides. London: W. Freeman et al., 1706

Additional Details

first edition in english. Ides was a Dane who travelled to Peking as an ambassador of Peter the Great. Pages [113]-210 contain A Short Description of the Vast Empire of China by Dionysius Kao. Cordier (Sinica) 2468; Lust 519.