VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, INTO BRASIL, AND THE EAST-INDIES:

with A most particular ACCOUNT of All the remarkable Passages that happened during the Author's Stay of Nine Years in BRASIL; especially, in Relation to the Revolt of the Portugueses, and the Intestine War carried on there from 1640. to 1649. As also, a most Ample Description of the most famous City of Batavia, in the East-Indies.

By Mr John Nieuhoff. Both Adorned with Copper Plates, done after the life. Translated from the Dutch original. Vol.II.

First English Edition: (x), 1-156 Voyages and Travels to Brasil, 181-369 Voyages and Travels to the East Indies, engraved portrait of the author, additional engraved title page, 45 engraved plates mostly folding, 33 engravings in the text, 3 folding maps, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and with a red leather title label and gilt decoration in the panels, gilt crest on the upper and lower covers 'Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum', page edges sprinkled red, two bookplates on the front paste-down endpaper, contents bright a crisp, a very good copy.

This is Volume II of the 1703 edition of Churchill's A Collection of Voyages and Travels. It contains a brief account of the Cape and the fine 'A Mapp of the Cape of Good Hope with its tue situation,' with an insert of Table Mountain with the Castle in the foreground.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Nieuhof) Johan Nieuhof (22 July 1618 – 8 October 1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. He wrote An Embassy from the East-India Company about the journey.