Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2433Location: BostonDate / Time: November 16, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
(Chinese Exploration),Nieuhoff, Jan,L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie..., Leiden: Jacob de Meurs, 1665, first edition in French, two parts in one volume, tree calf, with pictorial title, portrait, and thirty-one of thirty-five plates, folio, (cover loose, heavily chipped and worn, gatherings loose).
Estimate $1,000-1,500