Dapper, Olfert.

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

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... English'd... by John Ogilby. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, 1671
paper

First English edition, folio (420 x 269mm.), engraved additional pictorial title, printed title in red and black, 38 engraved plates, 32 double-page, numerous illustrations in text, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt, [Landwehr (VOC) 545; Cordier, Sinica 2349; Löwendahl 145 (note); Lust 525], lacking the 2 maps, some plates slightly browned or spotted, minor worming in lower margin towards end, binding slightly rubbed, rebacked retaining original spine, ?new label

Catalogue Note

The author of this work is erroneously identified by Ogilby, the translator and editor, as Albertus Montanus on the title page, and this is reflected on the spine label of this copy. According to Löwendahl this English edition contains some material not included in the original Dutch edition published in 1670.

This copy of this profusely illustrated work has good margins and is bound in what may be described as a "publisher's binding" (cf. sale in these rooms 9 May 2006, p.55, for very similar bindings).