Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

First edition. - The main body of the work is an account of Earl Macartney's Embassy
to China (1792-95). The embassy created great interest and excitement in Britain,
resulting in a number of different accounts being published, but despite collecting
much information, permission to have a British minister resident in China was declined.
- A sound copy. - Cordier, Bibl. Sinica, p.2392
175 VINCENZO MARIA di S. Caterina da Siena. Il viaggio all' Indie Orientali.
Con le osservationi, e successi nel medesimo, i costumi, kiti di varie natione, &
reconditissimi arcani de gentili; cavati consomma diligenza da loro scritti, con la descrittione
degl' animali quadrupedi, serpenti, ucelli, e piante di quel mondo nuovo,
con le loro virtu singolari. Venetia, Giacomo Zattoni, 1678.
4to. Modern limp vellum, with ties. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and
several woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials. XXIV,516,20 pp. € 1.750,00
Second edition, first printed at Rome in 1672. - 'Vincenzo Maria was a Carmelite
missionary whose name was Antonio Murchio. He went to India as a missionary in
1656. Amat di San Flippo regards his relation as perhaps the most important of the
17th century Italian travellers' (Atabey p.689). He journeyed through Turkey,
Lebanon, Syria, Persia before he finally arrived in India. He had a keen eye and has
much of interest to record about manners, customs, costumes, natural history, etc. He
returned to his homeland via Muscat which he describes over a chapter. 'The present
account is much more detailed than the usual contemporary reports and thus of particular
interest to the study of the history of coffee (Hünersdorff, Coffee, p 1045) .-
(Some staining and soiling).
Atabey Collection 1297 (3rd edition); not in Blackmer or Weber; Streit V, 538; Cat.
NHSM I, p.240.
176 VREDE. A Dutch threemaster in a stiff breeze. (No pl., second half 19th century).
Original anonymous watercolour depicting the Dutch sailing-vessel Vrede off a
coast, with Dutch flag and shipowner flag AHJZ (A. Hoogendijk Jzn Vlaardingen ?).
44 x 62 cm. - Fine. € 595,00
177 WATERTON, Charles. Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the
United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original
instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history.
New edition. Edited, with biographical introduction and explanatory index, by J.G.
Wood. London, Macmillan and Co., 1885.
Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With many wood-engravings. XVI,520
pp. € 195,00