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Arnoldus Montanus (1625?-1683)
Atlas Chinensis: being a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary, translated by John Ogilby, London: Thomas Johnson for the author, 1671. 2° (418 x 253mm.). Title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, 2 double-page maps and 37 engraved plates only, illustrations. (Lacking Hocsieu plate, some marginal wormtracks or holes, a few leaves with short marginal tears or corners torn away, occasional light spotting and marginal browning). Modern blind-stamped calf (lightly rubbed).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Lust 525: "The illustrations include views of towns in Taiwan, Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsu, drawings of clothes, plants, house plans etc"; Cox I, 326; Lowndes 4, 1719; Wing M-2484.
Atlas Chinensis: being a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary, translated by John Ogilby, London: Thomas Johnson for the author, 1671. 2° (418 x 253mm.). Title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, 2 double-page maps and 37 engraved plates only, illustrations. (Lacking Hocsieu plate, some marginal wormtracks or holes, a few leaves with short marginal tears or corners torn away, occasional light spotting and marginal browning). Modern blind-stamped calf (lightly rubbed).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Lust 525: "The illustrations include views of towns in Taiwan, Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsu, drawings of clothes, plants, house plans etc"; Cox I, 326; Lowndes 4, 1719; Wing M-2484.
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