Lot 237
China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) Het Gezandtschap Der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.... Keizer van China, third edition, Amsterdam, by Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom van Someren, 1693.
Hammer Price: £2,400
Description
China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) Het Gezandtschap Der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.... Keizer van China, third edition, engraved frontispiece, portrait of author, folding map of China, 34 double-page plates, and numerous illustrations, title in red and black, small ink correction to list of plates, contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, head of spine chipped, [Cordier, Sinica p.2345; Landwehr VOC 539; STCN 843060840], folio, Amsterdam, by Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom van Someren, 1693.
⁂ Beautifully engraved plates and illustrations of Chinese towns, plant- and animal-life. The list of plates at end erroneously lists plate of Paolinxi, which only appears in the Latin edition of 1668.
"Jan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveller and adventurer (1618-72). Between 1640 and 1644 Nieuhof was serving as an official of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil, but by 1655 he was in Batavia in Java as a servant of the Dutch East India Company. From there he accompanied Pieter de Goyer as a member of the Dutch embassy to Peking... In 1665 Nieuhof published what is regarded as the definitive account of the Dutch embassy to Peking, and it is for that he is best known." (Howgego p.752).
Description
China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) Het Gezandtschap Der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.... Keizer van China, third edition, engraved frontispiece, portrait of author, folding map of China, 34 double-page plates, and numerous illustrations, title in red and black, small ink correction to list of plates, contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, head of spine chipped, [Cordier, Sinica p.2345; Landwehr VOC 539; STCN 843060840], folio, Amsterdam, by Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom van Someren, 1693.
⁂ Beautifully engraved plates and illustrations of Chinese towns, plant- and animal-life. The list of plates at end erroneously lists plate of Paolinxi, which only appears in the Latin edition of 1668.
"Jan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveller and adventurer (1618-72). Between 1640 and 1644 Nieuhof was serving as an official of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil, but by 1655 he was in Batavia in Java as a servant of the Dutch East India Company. From there he accompanied Pieter de Goyer as a member of the Dutch embassy to Peking... In 1665 Nieuhof published what is regarded as the definitive account of the Dutch embassy to Peking, and it is for that he is best known." (Howgego p.752).
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