Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions
Lot 438
John Ogilby, Olfert Dapper, Arnoldus Montanus, Atlas Chinensis being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Viceroy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartary, Tho. Johnson, London, 1671
CONDITION REPORT: Atlas Chinensis
Embassy to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartar 1st English edition dated 1671
Folio
Marbled leather covers, both worn at edges and detached from book, tooling to front cover just visible.
Spine present but very worn; some traces of tooling and the word CHINA
First blank page inscribed “Arthur Gray Thompson from the library of his aunt Anne, widow of R. Williamson 1888.
Pages creased/indented, progressively less pronounced
Pages generally pretty good, there is slight browning of edges which becomes more pronounced after page c50
Title engraving loose, repaired tear top right in margin, 7cm. some creasing, slightly borown, small foxing mostly in margins. Dated 1671. Nibbled edges
Red and black title page loose, stain to bottom edge, nibbled edges, crease on left
B&W title page loose, stained bottom edge, foxing rhs, repair top left, edges nibbled.
Double page map stained to centre and strengthened, repaired tear and small tear to lower edge
Approximately fifty two vignettes and four title and first-letter vignettes,
There is a list of plates , all are present except number 600, though there is no sign of a missing page or torn page . This plate numbered on the list 600 depicts “Direction for Buiilding of Pagoda Teples in Two Divisions. All plates are “checked off” on the list page sometime in the 19th century and it was missing/omitted then.
Most plates and pages appear in fairly good condition commensurate with age with signs of small repairs, to bottom or top centre folds, some backing and some strengthening. Minor foxing/rust stains, though mainly to the margins.
Major damage as follows:-
One four fold illustration has reinforcing and repair top and bottom centre margin, just into bottom of print
Two of the double page prints have bad rust marks on margins
One has a large repair to bottom left
One double page print is very foxed
Small rust hole to 205 c 6mm
Print 685 has a bad tear through lhs of print, top to bottom, repaired
One of the single page prints has a large repair. Four have slight foxing, others very minor foxing.
