IDES, Evert Ysbrants. [Driejaarige reize naar China. English] Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China ... to which is annex'd an accurate description of China, done originally by a Chinese author, London: for W. Freeman, J. Walthoe [and others], 1706, 4°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, engraved title dated 1705 used as a frontispiece, large folding engraved map and 30 plates, 8 folding (short tear at fold of map, small rust-holes in 2 plates and a few text leaves, one plate cropped, another rubbed with slight loss of engraved surface), modern calf. [Lust 519]

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IDES, Evert Ysbrants. [Driejaarige reize naar China. English] Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China ... to which is annex'd an accurate description of China, done originally by a Chinese author, London: for W. Freeman, J. Walthoe [and others], 1706, 4°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, engraved title dated 1705 used as a frontispiece, large folding engraved map and 30 plates, 8 folding (short tear at fold of map, small rust-holes in 2 plates and a few text leaves, one plate cropped, another rubbed with slight loss of engraved surface), modern calf. [Lust 519]

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Ides reached China in 1693 on a mission as Russian envoy. Lust notes that the "Description of China" in his book "was by a Chinese doctor, Dionysoius Kao, who practised in Siam and India, and was a Roman Catholic convert."

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