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Embassy from the East-India Company... To the Emperor of China

Embassy from the East-India Company... To the Emperor of China by NIEUHOFF John OGILBY John

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Embassy from the East-India Company... To the Emperor of China
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NIEUHOFF John OGILBY John
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1673. (CHINA) NIEUHOFF, John. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, Delivered by Their Excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his Imperial City of Peking… Englished by John Ogilby. London: by the Author, 1673. Tall folio (11 by 16-1/2 inches), period-style full red morocco gilt, black morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $15,000.Second edition in English, splendidly illustrated with frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, double-page engraved map, 18 full-page folio copper-engraved plates (including one double-page plan) and 94 in-text copper engravings.Nieuhoff, a Dutch official, traveled extensively throughout the East, visiting China, Dutch South Africa, Sumatra, Java, Amboyna, Formosa, Malacca, India, Ceylon, Persia, and St. Helena. This is his important first-hand account of his visit to China as an ambassador in 1655-1657, first printed in Dutch in 1665. The present English edition has been translated from Georg Horn's Latin version (Amsterdam, 1668)—unlike the earlier Dutch, Latin, and French editions, however, this English edition has been significantly augmented with an appendix of copious extracts and additional illustrations drawn from all six parts of Athanasius Kircher's China Monumentis (Amsterdam, 1667). Kircher's massive compendium of Jesuit material on China and the Far East is considered ""the first publication of important documents on oriental geography, geology, botany, zoology, religion and language"" (Godwin, Kircher, 50). In the present work it comprises over 100 pages, as richly illustrated as Nieuhoff's account which precedes it.""The Dutch being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the Chinese trade. After much opposition the Government succeeded in sending certain merchants to try the pulse of the Chinese at Canton. Upon their report it was determined to dispatch ambassadors from Batavia to the Court of Peking to solicit liberty to trade. This is the embassy written up by Nieuhoff, who was steward to the ambassadors. Its failure led the Dutch to send other embassies. These are the ones written by Montanus"" (Cox I: 325). Translator Ogilby devoted the last years of his life to producing works of geography and topography: he ""may be considered as the English De Bry, as his works are similar in their objects, compilation, and mode of illustrations"" (Cox II:69). The work is profusely illustrated with striking copper-engraved plates of landscapes, views, cities, villages, temples, people, flora and fauna, etc. Ogilby's translation was first published in 1669 by John Macock. Wing N1153. Lowndes, 1692. See Cordier, Sinica, 2344; Lust 539. Folding map repaired on verso, with approximately half-inch loss to image along repair; marginal repair to verso of plate following page 139. Some very mild toning to text, light expert cleaning to last dozen or so leaves, plates clean and fine. A very good wide-margined copy. Beautifully bound to period style.
Elements of Criticism

Elements of Criticism by KAMES Henry Home, Lord

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Elements of Criticism
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1762. First Edition. KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Elements of Criticism. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell… A. Millar, London, 1762. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $6000.First edition of Lord Kames' comprehensive philosophical and aesthetic treatise, desirable in unrestored contemporary calf.The Elements of Criticism is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and ""the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719"" (translated from Dobai, Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus und der Romantik in England II, 115). ""In Elements of Criticism (1762) Kames sought to propound the fundamental principles of criticism drawn from human nature"" (ODNB), and the work ""became a textbook in rhetoric and belles-lettres for a century, not least in America"" (Yolton, et al., Dictionary of 18th-Century British Philosophers, 503-06). Indeed, Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the third edition in his library (Sowerby 4699).""The power of aesthetic judgment in human nature closely resembles that of moral judgment. It is the ability to experience the agreeableness and disagreeableness of works of art as objective features of these works. As in the case of the perception of moral qualities, the objectivity consists in the overall order of which these qualities form part. This order is the natural emotional response to the experience of ideas when they follow the natural paths of association. The standard of aesthetic taste is thus to be ascertained through investigation of what is natural in these regards, and the natural is that which is common to experienced judges of art (see Elements of Criticism, esp. chap. 25)"" (Yolton, et al., 504). Jessop, 141. Interiors clean, some light rubbing and scuffing to bindings, spine head of Volume III a little worn. Still an excellent set of this scarce title in unrestored contemporary calf.

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