Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces [of J. van Kampen, C. Nobel and B. Bort], to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and [of P. van Hoorn] to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary. With a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga, and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea. And a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces. Collected out of their several writings and journals / by Arnoldus Montanus [or rather, by O. Dapper]. English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, esq.
- Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.
- Date:
- 1671
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London : Printed by T. Johnson for the author [i.e. Ogilby], 1671.
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2 unnumbered leaves, 723 pages : t.page in red & black, add. engr. title page, engr. illustrations, plates (most folded) & fldg. maps ; (folio)
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Wing M2484
ESTC R5629
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), D242
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Half-title, engr.: The second & third embassie to ye. empire of Taysing or China ... 1671
Running title, p. 2-633: Several embassies to the emperor of China; p. 634-723: A late description of the empire of China
Also issued to accompany Nieuhof's "An embassy from the East-India company ... The 2d ed" London, 1673. cf. Brit. mus. Cat. (under Nieuhof) and Dict. nat. biog. (under Ogilby)
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