"An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the grand tartar Cham emperor of China" and "Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages..." Jan Nieuhof / Arnoldus Montanus

Two seminal works on the early history of China in their rare English editions:

Jan Nieuhof [1618-1672] An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the grand tartar Cham emperor of China [.] English'd [.] by John Ogilby.

London: 1673. Folio (45 x 31cm).

Title in red and black.

12 plates and maps only (of 20 illustrations). Large paper copy in original binding. Wear to binding and some tears and marks to pages.

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Arnoldus Montanus [1625?-1683] Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces. English'd. by John Ogilby.

Thomas Johnson for the author, 1671.

Folio (45 x 33cm).

Title in red and black. 35 engraved maps and plates only (of 40).

Some wear and damage to plates. Some tears to pages.