An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China : deliver'd by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking· Wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously describ'd, by Mr John Nieuhoff, steward to the ambassadors. Also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation. With an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher. English'd, and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672. author.; Goyer, Pieter de.; Keizer, Jacob de.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.; Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ... Selections. English.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
1673
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Title
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China : deliver'd by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking· Wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously describ'd, by Mr John Nieuhoff, steward to the ambassadors. Also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation. With an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher. English'd, and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.
Uniform title
Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China. English
Edition
The second edition.
Created/published
London : Printed by the author at his house in White-Friers, M.DC.LXXIII. [1673]
Description
[2], 431, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates (some fold) : ill., maps, diagrams ; (fol.)
Associated name
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672. author.
Goyer, Pieter de.
Keizer, Jacob de.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ... Selections. English.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Goyer, Pieter de.
Keizer, Jacob de.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ... Selections. English.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Note
Translation of: Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China.
With an additional title page (plate), engraved and signed: An embassy sent by the East-India Company, of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham or Emperour of China delivered at Pekin by Peter de Goyer and Iacob de Keyzer a. 1655. W. Hollar fecit, 1668.
With an additional title page (plate), engraved and signed: An embassy sent by the East-India Company, of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham or Emperour of China delivered at Pekin by Peter de Goyer and Iacob de Keyzer a. 1655. W. Hollar fecit, 1668.
ESTC staff note
DFONOTE kkt e-report sent, 8/20/03 FONOTE kkt pag.: [2], 327, [1], 18, [2], 106, [2] p., [22] leaves of plates (some folded); sig.: [A]² B-4I²; a-d²; ²B-2E²; (separate sections with caption titles are "A narrative of the success of an embassage sent by John Maatzuyker de Badem ..." and "An appendix or special remarks taken at large out of Athanasius Kircher ..."); letterpress title page in red and black; leaves 2P2, d2 and the final leaf, ²2E² are blank; report DFo copy? FOREPLY PH Report your copy.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009-2010. Imagining China.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. Consuming Splendor.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. Consuming Splendor.
Cited/described in
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 (CD-ROM, 1996), N1153
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R3880
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R3880
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
141- 515f
Folger-specific note
Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate of Eliot, with crest showing open dexter hand paleways, charged with an eye ppr. (motto "credunt quod vident"), with manuscript shelf-mark
Call number
264711 (folio)
Folger-specific note
This copy has not yet been cataloged. The description may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Signed "To my friend C. F. R. Ogilby, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1933, D. E. Bushnell" on recto first fly leaf.