Atlas Chinensis being a second part of 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 : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tarter against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly both of the whole empire of China in general and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures by John Ogilby. First edition.

Montanus, Arnoldus, (1625?-1683) (Creator) = Arnoldus Van Bergen or Van den Berg; Olfert Dapper, (1639-1689) (Creator); John Ogilby, (1600-1676) (Creator); Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor of Bromham (1692-1753), provenance.

Published by London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M. DC. LXXI. [1671]

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Folio. 26 x 42cm. [vi), 724pp. Contemporary gilt paneled calf with later gilt calf spine and repaired innner hinges. .Sub-title: The Second and Third Embassy to [the] Empire of Taysing or China.Bookplate dated 1738 of Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor of Bromham (1692-1753).Printed in red and black throughout: With one engraved double-page map; six single page plates; 31 double page plates and 57 third page engravings. Very good without foxing.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:35077336; Cox I, 326; Cordier BS 2349;Kress 01964.2; Landwehr VOC 545.

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• Title: Atlas Chinensis being a second part of 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 : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tarter against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly both of the whole empire of China in general and in ...
• Publisher: London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M. DC. LXXI. [1671]
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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