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306 - China.- Montanus (Arnoldus) Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of A Relation of Remarkable Passage in two Embassies from the East-India Company ..., first edition in English, translated by John Ogilby, additional engraved title, title in red and black, 37 engraved plates only (of 38), illustrations, lacking 2 maps, most plates double-page, some trimmed and loosely inserted, occasional light marginal staining (not affecting text), 2R3 with small paper defect to fore-edge, previous owner's ink-stamp to title, pastedowns detached, later reverse calf, bumping to corners and extremities, loss to spine head, rubbed, [ESTC R5629; Wing D242], by Tho. Johnson, 1671.

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£300 - 400 (€350 - 480)

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China.- Montanus (Arnoldus) Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of A Relation of Remarkable Passage in two Embassies from the East-India Company ..., first edition in English, translated by John Ogilby, additional engraved title, title in red and black, 37 engraved plates only (of 38), illustrations, lacking 2 maps, most plates double-page, some trimmed and loosely inserted, occasional light marginal staining (not affecting text), 2R3 with small paper defect to fore-edge, previous owner's ink-stamp to title, pastedowns detached, later reverse calf, bumping to corners and extremities, loss to spine head, rubbed, [ESTC R5629; Wing D242], by Tho. Johnson, 1671. *** First edition in english of a work by Olfert Dapper, first published the year before in Dutch, and mistakenly ascribed by Ogilby to Arnoldus Montanus.

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Books and Works on Paper
Thursday, October 29
01:00 PM
4 Ingate Pl, Nine Elms
SW8 3NS London, United Kingdom

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