Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
NIEUHOFF, JAN; et al. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China. 16 (of 20) engraved plates; 121 engraved text illustrations; double-page engraved map of China; lacks portrait of the translator, John Ogilby, views of Batavia and Macao, and plan of the Imperial Palace in Peking. [6], 18; 146, 149-184, 205-327, [1]; 106 pages, including engraved additional title by Wenceslaus Hollar and license leaf; lacks the 3 integral blanks. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 387x251 mm, 18th-century calf, lettering piece and bottom of spine chipped, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, cords intact; endpapers browned, varying toning of contents with occasional foxing and marginal dampstaining generally not affecting engraved matter, additional title trimmed and mounted, repair in blank lower inner corner of B1, upper margin of map browned and unevenly trimmed slightly entering rule border. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Richard Strachey of Ashwick Grove. London: John Macock for the Author [i. e., Translator], 1669

Additional Details

first edition in english, abridged from the 1665 original version in Dutch. Cordier (Sinica) 2347; Landwehr VOC 543; Lust 535; Wing N1152; ESTC R9298.