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ANDRÉ EVERARD VAN BRAAM HOUCKGEEST (1739-1801)
An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the years 1794 and 1795 ... containing a description of several parts of the Chinese Empire, unknown to Europeans, London: for R. Phillips and sold by J. Debrett, Lee and Hurst, 1798. 2 volumes, 8° (214 x 131mm.). Folding engraved map. (Final leaf of text in vol. one with long, closed tear, repair affecting one letter of text, lower corner of O4 in vol. II torn away.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spines with contrasting lettering-pieces (spines very rubbed and scuffed, tail of spine of vol. II chipped, a few scuff marks on covers, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Kress B3563; Lust 502. (2)
An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the years 1794 and 1795 ... containing a description of several parts of the Chinese Empire, unknown to Europeans, London: for R. Phillips and sold by J. Debrett, Lee and Hurst, 1798. 2 volumes, 8° (214 x 131mm.). Folding engraved map. (Final leaf of text in vol. one with long, closed tear, repair affecting one letter of text, lower corner of O4 in vol. II torn away.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spines with contrasting lettering-pieces (spines very rubbed and scuffed, tail of spine of vol. II chipped, a few scuff marks on covers, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Kress B3563; Lust 502. (2)
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