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An embassy from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the grand Tartar cham emperour of China, delivered by Their Excellcies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking.

Title
An embassy from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the grand Tartar cham emperour of China, delivered by Their Excellcies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. Wherein the cities ... rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously described by Mr. John Nievhoff, steward to the ambassadours. Also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation. With an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasivs Kircher. Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby ...
Author
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.
Publication
London, Printed by John Macock for the author, 1669.

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Additional Authors
  • Goyer, Pieter de, active 1655.
  • Keizer, Jacob de, active 1655.
  • Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
  • Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
  • Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
  • Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
Description
3 p. l., 327 [i.e. 307], 18 p., 1 l., 106 p., 1 l. illus., map, ports.; 40 cm. (fol.).
Alternative Title
Ogilby's China
Subject
Note
  • Engraved and illustrated half-title signed: W. Hollar fecit, 1668.
  • "A narrative of the success of an embassage sent by John Maatzuyker de Badem, general of Batavia; unto the emperour of China & Tartary, the 20. of July 1655 ... Written by a Jesuite in those parts," 18 p., includes the epistle of Father John Adam.
Indexed In (note)
  • Hazlitt
  • Cordier
Numbering (note)
  • Numbers 185-204 omitted in first paging.
Call Number
*KC+ 1669 (Nieuhof, J. Embassy from the East-India company)
OCLC
2453235
Author
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.
Title
An embassy from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the grand Tartar cham emperour of China, delivered by Their Excellcies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. Wherein the cities ... rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously described by Mr. John Nievhoff, steward to the ambassadours. Also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation. With an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasivs Kircher. Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby ...
Imprint
London, Printed by John Macock for the author, 1669.
Numbering
Numbers 185-204 omitted in first paging.
Indexed In:
Hazlitt, IV, 275
Cordier, col. 2347
Local Note
Without the portrait of Ogilby mentioned by Hazlitt.
Pages 147-148, sig. e₂ and last leaf (all blank?) wanting.
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Added Author
Goyer, Pieter de, active 1655.
Keizer, Jacob de, active 1655.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis .. illustrata.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. Translator
Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Research Call Number
*KC+ 1669 (Nieuhof, J. Embassy from the East-India company)
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