Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem
Subtitle: historiarum narratione, quae legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking, & aula imperatoriâ ab anno 1655 ad annum 1657 obtigerunt, ut & ardua Sinensium in bello Tartarico fortunâ, provinciarum accurata geographia, urbium delineatione, nec non artis & naturae miraculis ex animalium, vegetabilium, mineralium genere per centum & quinquaginta aeneas figuras passim illustrata & conscripta vernacule
By: per Joannem Nieuhovium, primum legationis aulae magistrum, jam Coylanae praefectum ; Latinitate donata per clarissimum virum Georgium Hornium ...
Contributors: Goyer, Pieter de; Horn, Georg, 1620-1670; Keizer, Jacob de; Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
Publisher: Apud Jacobum Meursium, in Fossa Imperatoria
Published: 1668
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie; Early works to 1800; Description and travel
Other titles: Descriptio legationis Bataviae Societatis Indiae Orientalis ad Magnum Tartariae Chamum modernum Sinae imperatorem
Work titles: Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China
Notes: Dutch and French versions published by van Meurs in 1665, German version in 1666.

The ambassadors were Pieter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer.

Added engraved title. Engraved frontispiece port. of Nieuhof. Engraved port. of Jean Baptiste Colbert, to whom one of the dedications is addressed. Folded double-page map of China. Etched in-text ill. and thirty-five double-page plates. Engraved t.p. vignette, engraved and woodcut initials. All ill. unsigned.

"Pars ultima Legationis Batavicae, quae Imperii Sinici universalem descriptionem complectitur," paged 1-172.

Signatures: *⁴ chi² A-Z⁴ a-x⁴ y² z⁴.

Includes index.

Getty copy contains two copies of plates depicting Anhing, Tonglou, Tonglingh and Ufu (following p. 88 and p. 184, 2nd sequence of paging). It lacks plate entitled "Ordo equitatus in expeditionibus," called for in Monitum pro bibliopegis, last p. Natural history plate following p. 106 is hand colored.

Binding: mottled calfskin. Spine and edges of boards gilt tooled. Page edges sprinkled red. Double-page plates tipped onto stubs at centerfold.