Ioannem Meursieum

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem.Historiarum narratione, quae legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking, et aula imperatoria ab anno 1655 ad annum 1657 obtigerunt, ut et ardua Sinensium in bello Tartarico fortuna, provinciarum accurata geographia, urbium delineatione, nec non artis et naturae miraculis ex animalium, vegetabilium, mineralium genere per centum et quinquaginta aeneas figuras passim illustrata et conscripta vernacule [...]

First Latin edition of this journey to China by Johan Nieuhof, translated by Georg Horn, illustrated with a portrait of Nieuhof, thirty-six double-page plates and numerous figu

New edition, after the original published in 1625. Text in two columns in small characters.
Contemporary full pigskin binding stamped on bevelled wooden boards. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Paper title label with faded ink. Large blind-stamped panel on covers, series of floral frames including one with a frieze of haloed saints bearing names. Central roundel. Brass clasps, without the straps of which only the stub remains on the lower cover. 4 small brass plates positioned on the edges near the headcaps. Worming. Some yellow stains on the lower cover. Numerous leaves browned. Worming to endpapers. First endpaper lacking. Fine specimen of a stamped pigskin binding.
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