Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China. and Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. English
Description:
Added engraved t.p., Errors in paging: 185-204 omitted in numbering., and Imperfect: t.p. trimmed and mounted.
Publisher:
Printed by John Macock for the author,
Subject (Geographic):
China--Description and travel., China--History--Early works to 1800., and China--Politics and government--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Goyer, Pieter de., Keizer, Jacob de., Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis. English., Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie., Ogilby, John, 1600-1676., and Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
"A further 100 copies printed on mould-made rag paper have been numbered and signed by John Betjeman"--T.p. verso., Limited ed. of 500 copies., Original wrappers. From the collection of Duncan Andrews., and Reprint of the 1896 ed. published by Twentieth Century Press, London.
Publisher:
Journeyman Press and the Marx Memorial Library,
Subject (Name):
Andrews, Duncan--Ownership and Betjeman, John, 1906-1984
Subject (Topic):
Labor movement--Caricatures and cartoons, Labor movement--Poetry, Socialism--Caricatures and cartoons, and Socialism--Poetry
A handbill announcing Master Humphrey's Clock, "now wound up and going, preparatory to its striking, on Saturday, the 4th of April, 1840." Three paragraphs printed here--the first of which begins: "Master Humphrey earnestly hopes"--are attributed to Dickens.
First edition, first issue, with the first ("The") variant reading on p. 270--cf. Hutchins. Robinson Crusoe, p. 122-128., p. 63-64 (2d count) repeated in pagination. Without asterisk at bottom of p. 47 (2d count). Publisher's advertisements, [2] p. following p. 84 (2d count)., and Published August 6, 1720.