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Creator:
Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Title(s):
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 Tartar 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 writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...
Additional Title(s):

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

Added engraved title page: Second & third embassie to [the] empire of Taysing or China

Running-title: Several embassies to the Emperor of China

Gedenkwaerdig bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische maetschappye, op de kuste en in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina
Published/Created:
London : Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had in his house in White Fryers, MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:
[6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2023 10
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Signatures: [A]² B-4Y⁴ 4Z².
Wing attributes authorship to Olfert Dapper.
In three parts, with continuous paging and register and caption-titles: A second embassy or application to the Emperor of China. A third embassy to the Emperor of China and East-Tartary, under the conduct of the Lord Pieter van Hoorn. A description of the Empire of China, or Taising.
With numerous errors in pagination.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) D242
English short title catalogue, R005629
Cordier, H. Bibliotheca Sinica (2. éd.), 2349
Includes bibliographical references.
BAC Folio A 2023 10: Bound in contemporary red morocco. Autograph: Wm. [?] Crewe.
Subject Terms:
China -- Description and travel.
China -- History -- 1644–1795.
Crewe, William -- Autograph.
Zheng, Chenggong, 1624–1662.
Contributors:
Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689, author.
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683, attributed name.
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676, translator.
Johnson, Thomas, active 1642–1677, printer.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
United Provinces of the Netherlands.
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