[China]. NIEUHOF (Johan). Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartari - Lot 118

[China]. NIEUHOF (Johan). Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae Chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem, historiarum narratione... Amstelodami, apud J. Meursium, 1668. Two parts in one in-folio volume, [2] f. (title, notice to the reader), 184-172 p., [4] f. (index, placement of the plates), fr., pl., figs., contemporary havana basane, 6-rib spine, gilt title, ornate caissons, mottled edges (rubbing, headbands torn off, 2 corners worn; front and title rebacked, plates a little browned, tear affecting qq. letters p.89 First Latin edition of one of the few sources on China not written by a Jesuit. The illustration, entirely engraved on copper, consists of a frontispiece, a portrait of the author (missing here), a folding map, 34 (here 33) double plates and 109 vignettes in the text (Cordier, Bibl. Sinica 2346-7).