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NIEUHOFF, Jan (1618-1672). An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China ... at his Imperial City of Peking, London: John Maycock, 1669. 2° (390 x 247mm.). Engraved portrait, additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, double-page map and 19 engraved plates, illustrations. (A few plates and leaves with frayed foredges, small hole in N2 of second part, some marginal wormtracks and holes, occasional light spotting, browning and dampstaining). Contemporary calf. (Joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed with losses to spine). Provenance: Lord Lovaine (armorial bookplate); Duke of Northumberland's Library, Stanwick (pencil inscription). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. cf. Brunet IV, 78; Lust 535; Wing N-1152.