Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2526BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 14, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
(China,Travel),Montanus, Arnoldus (1625?-1683),Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages from the East-India Company of the United Provinces...to Konchi, Emperor of China..., London: Thomas Johnson, 1671, first edition in English, later three-quarter morocco with marbled boards, translated by John Ogilby, with engraved title, two double-page maps and thirty-five (of thirty-eight) full page and double-page plates, folio, (lacking prelims, marginal staining and toning throughout, images clear, one plate heavily repaired, overall good).
Estimate $2,000-3,000