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Title page to Nieuhoff's 'An embassy from the East-India Company' Size:S: 36 x 28cm A toll house can beTitle page to the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China., by John Nieuhoff (London, 1669). The Emperor of China sits in a throne, his left hand rests on a globe, he is surrounded by figures; an aid holds a parasol over him. Manacled figures kneel in the foreground. John Nieuhoff (1618 1672), Dutch traveller, was appointed steward of the mission to China under Peter van Goyer and