Embassy to China by the Dutch East India Company
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Beskrivning
CHINA. NIEUHOFF (NEUHOF), JEAN (JOHANN). L´ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l´empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, faite par les S.rs Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser... mis en françois, orné, & assorti de mille belles particularitez tant morales que politiques, par Jean le Carpentier... A Leyde (pour Jacob de Meurs) 1665.
Folio (c 335x223 mm.). (14), 1-116, 116-117, 117-118, 117-290, (2), 1-134, (2, last blank) pp. Engraved portrait (cut to platemark and laid down on first endpaper verso), engraved frontispiece (cut to platemark and remargined), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (dampstained, mended tear in inner margin), engraved folding map (some foxing), 35 folding engraved views and plates (all dampstained or browned), 110 engravings in text.
Contemporary brown half calf, somewhat worn, gilt spine in seven compartments, red spine label.
Throughout dampstained. Bookplate of the library of Skottorp.
Löwendahl, China Illustrata127. Originally published in Dutch earlier in the same year, this is the first French edition, enlarged by the editor/translator with a second part ""Déscription général de l´empire de la Chine".
The views includes Macau (Aomen), Canton (Guangzhou), Dayu, Ganzhou, Nanchang, Nanjing, Anqing, Wuhu, Yangzhou, landscapes and natural history subjects.
Provenance: Castle of Skottorp, Sweden.
Auktionsnummer:
6122
Datum:
2017-06-20