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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.

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 Nievhoff, 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; ...
Author
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.
Publication
London, Printed by the author at his house, 1673.

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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
2 p. l., 431 p. illus., map. plans, plates, ports.; 42.5 cm. (fol.).
Alternative Title
Ogilby's China
Subject
Note
  • Engraved and illustrated half-title signed: W. Hollar fecit, 1668. Title-page printed in red and black.
  • "A narrative of the success of an embassage sent by John Maatzuyker de Badem, general of Batavia unto the emperor of China and Tartary, the 20th of July 1655 ... Written by a Jesuit in those parts," p. 299-317, includes the epistle of Father John Adam.
Call Number
*KC+ 1673 (Nieuhof, J. Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces)
LCCN
47036881
OCLC
2453261
Author
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.
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 Nievhoff, 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; ...
Imprint
London, Printed by the author at his house, 1673.
Edition
The second edition.
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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+ 1673 (Nieuhof, J. Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces)
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