NIEUHOFF JAN Die Gesantschaft der Ost Indischen Geselschaft

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NIEUHOFF, JAN. Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederländern. Double-page folding map of China; 34 double-page engraved plates, and engraved illustrations in text. [10], 420, [12] pages, including engraved additional title and portrait. Folio, later 1/2 vellum over swirled-paper boards, lightly rubbed; scattered fairly discrete restorations throughout. (JS) Amsterdam: Jacob Mörs, 1669

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Second edition in German of an acccount of the 1655-57 embassy of the Dutch East India Company to China; the original edition in Dutch was published in 1665. Landwehr VOC 541 note.