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IDES, Evert Ysbrandszoon (1657-1708/09)

Driejaarige Reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen Afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides, van Moskou af, over Groot Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Siberien, Daour, Groot Tartaryen tot in China
Amsterdam
Pieter de Coup
1710
€450 - €600

In-4°, [16] ff, 243, [3] pp. Gegraveerde titel (met voorstelling van klederdrachten en exotische dieren), titel in rood en zwart. Zonder kaart en met 30 kopergravures waarvan 9 platen b.t. (verlies van de helft van de plaat tussen pp. 80-81, verschillende plooien versterkt). Heruitgave van de 1704 editie. Vol kalfsleder uit de tijd met sleet

Ref.: Howgego I4 ; Tiele 519, Cordier, Sinica p.2469, Cox I, p.330-331: ""This was no easy journey in those days. Ides, who was a Dane in the service of Peter the Great, set out from Moscow March 14, 1692. (...) He composed his journal for the information and satisfaction of Peter the Great who was well pleased with the results and rewarded the author with the post of Privy Councillor. (...) The expedition added considerable geographical knowledge to the little that was known about Northern Manchuria and China