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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 Excell[en]cies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking : wherein the cities ... ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described
Uniform Title
Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China. English
Title
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China [microform] : delivered by their Excell[en]cies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking : wherein the cities ... ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described / by Mr. John Nieuhoff ... ; also an epistle of Father John Adams ... concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...
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London : Printed by John Macock for the author, 1669.
Physical Description
[13], 327 [i.e. 307], 18 p., [2], 106, [2] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports.
Notes
Translation of: Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China.
Added engraved t.p.
"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.
Pt. 1: many pages are stained, faded, or tightly bound in filmed copy. Beginning-p. 89 photographed from Cambridge University Library copy and inserted at the end.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1972. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 430:19)
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Books / Microforms
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
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, N1152
Hazlitt IV 275
Cordier Coll. 2347
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