Kaempfer

KAEMPFERO, Engelberto D.. AMOENITATUM EXOTICARUM POLITICO-PHYSICO-MEDICARUM FASCICULI V, QUIBUS CONTINENTU.
AN IMPORTANT & SCHOLARLY BOTANICAL STUDY OF JAPAN & ASIA TITLE: cont.: ...COLLECTAE, AB AUCTORE ENGLEBERTO KAEMPFERO, D. * About half of this work is devoted to Kaempfer's travels in Persia [see below], with stunning copper etchings documenting his travels and recording the flora & botanical specimens he found of interest of that desert region. Of interest are the plates of date plams and other unique desert fruits. The balance of the work convers Japanese medicine, acupuncture, flora, medical pharmacopiea & botany. * RARITY: The book is rare and from our research this seems to be a very small printing of a fascinating work. Few complete copies are found in libraries. **** The contents: Fasciculus I: Complectens relationes de aulae Persicae stau hodierno. [16 relationes]. * Fasciculus II: Contiens relationes & observationese historico-physicas de rebus variis. [14 relationes]. * Relatio XIII: Chartopeia Japonica, [caracteres Chinois]. * Relatio XIV: Regnum Japonicae optima ratione, ab egressu civicum, & exterarum gentium ingressu & communione, clausum, [caract. Chinois]. * Fasciculus III: Contiens Observationes physico-medicas curiosas [16 observationes]. * Obs. XI: Curatio colicae per Acupuneturan, Japonibus usitata. * Obs. XII: Moxa, praestantissima cauteriorum materica, Sinensibus Japonisbusq; multum usitata,[charact. Chinois]. * Obs. XIII: Theae Japonesis historia [caract. Chinois et planches]. * Fasciculus IV: Contiens Relationes Botanico-historicas de Palma dactylifera in Perside crescente. [10 relationes]. * Fasciculus V. Contiens Plantarum Japonicarum, quas regnum peragranti solum natale conspiciendas object, nomina & characteres sinicos; intermixtis, pro specimne, quarundam plenis descriptionibus, una cum Iconibus. Cont: catalogus planarum fasiculi v in quinque calasses distributi, quarum exhibet. Classis: 1. Plantas volgo dictas bacciferas & pruniferas. 2. PL. pomiferas & Nuciferas. 3. Pl. Oleraceas & Frugiferas. 4. Pl. specioso flore conspicuas. 5. Pl. miscellaneas. **** * NOTE: While Kaempfer states "Chinese characters" in the text, actually what he meant to say was Japanese Kanji characters "borrowed" from the Chinese. ** THE AUTHOR: Engelbert Kaempfer [1740-1812], was a German doctor, and is best known as the director of the Deshima factory in Nagasaki, Japan from 1779-1780 & 1781-1784. Also his classic work: THE HISTORY OF JAPAN, 1827 & 1828 was his most stunning contribution to information on Japan at the time, their flora, especially the tea camellia, acupuncture, hand paper-making, and medical studies relating to acupuncture and the use of moxibustion as a cauterizing & therapeutal agent. * In 1683 he joined the Swedish embassy to visit the Shah of Persia. The embassy traveled from Moscow, via Kazan, Astrakhan, across the Caspian Sea to Isfahan, the capital of Persia. Kaempfer ventured out along the way, exploring other areas by the Baku on the Caspian Sea. He was an avid student and mastered the Persian language, which enabled him to then focus on that country's flora, fauna and geography. The results of these studies are found in this text, with especial focus on the flora. * Upon to Sweden, Kaempfer joined the Dutch East India Company, where he was appointed chief surgeon in the Persian Gulf. He explored Arabia, the west coast of India and finally ended up in Batavia, where he focused on Javanese natural history. While there, he met several people who had been stationed in Deshima, Japan, and some Japanese. He was appointed chief surgeon to Deshima where he studied all aspects of the Japanese. * His resulting HISTORY OF JAPAN, introduced many new things to the western world. His essays and illustrations on acupuncture, moxa, paper-making, natural history, use of cannabis, opium, tobacco and amber shed new light on medical practice in Japan. In many ways the current work resembles the HISTORY OF JAPAN in that it outlines similar subjects and in depth essays on the flora, fauna but on Persia. He also discusses customs, musical instruments, costume, fruits and a variety of unusual plants found in the desert and oasis of that area. * In the present work Kaempfer devotes 502 pages to Persia, with 42 stunning copper etched plates, some fold outs. including acupuncture, a long chapter on the Persian date palm, and a variety of cultural, fauna and flora essays. He also attaches an extensive catalogue of Japanese plants with their names and Kanji characters in the text. He adds 47 botanical and other copper etched plates with a map to the last part of this work. * THE PLATES: The plates found in this text are either large fold-outs, single full page, or one half or one third text illustrations. The fold-outs and full single page plates are copper etched, while the text illustrations may be wood cuts or possibly copper etched. The distinguishing "plate mark" is difficult to find on the text plates, while on the others this is very clear. * A fascinating and early primary resource. Written in an astute and scholarly manner, with careful analysis of what he saw, who he met and where he traveled. * RARITY: This book is quite rare, and seldom found complete. Our copy contains all plates & text, with some toning to the pages, some corner wear. By and large, an excellent early resource on the plants medicinal plants of Asia, with Chinese characters in the index and also an index to plant names. Also Amoenitatum Exoticarum which contains Relationes Botanico-Historicas de Palma Dactylifera in Perfide crefcente...et al. * **** BIBLIOGRAPHY: H. Cordier: JAPONICA columns 411-412. He also cites: "Cat. Mourier, no. 429, 10 fr" at the end of his citation. * ALT JAPAN KAT. 699. * Nissen, BBI 1018 * Stafleu 3483 * Hunt 427 * Wellcome III, p.376 * Brunet III: 636 * Gordon Mestler: A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS: p.470 et al. for Kaempfer, [Mestler mis-spells it "Kampfer" [sic] and moxa. Plesase inquire with us for copies of this major bibliographical reference resource. * Shinku Nichibun: Cites this book, and gives a complete list of the plates. Following is a correction to that list: plate # 12 is on p.262; text plate on p.548 omitted; plate # 56 is on p.697. Often books of this period had pages mis-numbered and plates inserted at different locations regardless of the fact [most] each plate has an associated page number within the etched area, to assist in placement. **** Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Lemgoviae 1712, Meyeri.New half leather over marbled boards, 9 text, 15 folding & 60 full-page engravings,facsimile:fold- ing map, plate p.334, frontis; title rebacked else original, solid, "as is," pages toned, 18 x 23.5 cm., index, complete.

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KAEMPFER, Engelbert.. THE HISTORY OF JAPAN...TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM 1690-9.
A MAJOR & IMPORTANT EARLY PRIMARY SOURCE ON JAPAN & SIAM FIRST EDITION was published in 1727 by J.G. Scheuchzer. The 2nd. edition in 1728 was improved containing a second index, and a 75-page appendix on the Natural History of the Japanese tea, with accurate description of that plant, its culture, growth, preparation and uses. Also of the paper manufacture of the Japanese. Of the Cure of the Cholick [sic] by the acupuncture, or needle-pricking as it is used by the Japanese. An account of Moxa, an excellent caustic of the Chinese and Japanese, showing how & where to insert the needles and where to burn. * In all,45 finely engraved copper plates and maps, with early illustrations on Japanese tea plants, herbology & acupuncture adorn this work. SUBTITLE: continued: Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State of government of that Empire, of its Temples, Palaces...of the chronology & Succession of the Emperors...Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam...Kaempfer [1651-1716] was a German doctor with a passion for traveling. He went to Nagasaki in 1690-91. His work covers Japanese history & a very reliable & lucid description of the political, social & physical state of the country in the 17th century. For upwards of 100 years this work remained the chief source of reliable and primary information for the rest of the world. * Kaempfer was essentially stationed in Nagasaki harbor on the prison-like island of Dejima, the entrance of which was controlled by the Japanese. There he performed his medical duties as Dutch East India Company physician. Once a year, a representative of the Company was allowed to go to Edo under very strict military guard, to be observed by the Shogun. The entourage went by way of Nagasaki to Kokura, Osaka, Miaco [Kyoto], Fammamatz [Hamamatsu], to Edo, basically up the Tokaido highway. Kaempfer was sent to the Shogun's palace in Edo he was ordered to dance, sing & eat while being scrutinized by the Shogun who shielded himself behind a Sudare or bamboo curtain. The Shogun secretly watched the Oranda-jin [Dutchman]. Kaempfer was a very open & free-thinking educated man, who was also an intellectual. The Shogun took to him & granted the favor of free travel throughout Japan, unheard of during this period of Japan's & fear of Westerners and isolation to the rest of the world. * The Dutch were allowed just so many vessels to visit annually & trade with their "window to the world" at Dejima. Nagasaki became a gathering place for curious Japanese, as well as would-be Rangaku-sha [Japanese Scholars of Dutch Learning] who studied science, medicine, astronomy, geography, cartography and the Western art of copper plate printing. From this very tiny island "window" Japan's curious intellectuals made a school & began to teach Western style knowledge to an elite Japanese intelligentsia. * Kaempfer was one of the scant few who gave favor to the rise of such Japanese and taught them what he could. This most famous primary resource has been celebrated since its publication as THE single most important book on Japan in the 18th century. Over the past two centuries & a half, this work has maintained its position as one of the three most important books on Japan done in English in the West. Highly collectable and coveted by connoisseurs, historians & librarians renders this a magnificent primary resource with fabulous etchings. * The addition of the appendices in 1728 on the Tea Camellia is the first appearance of this in English. Also the first discussion of acupuncture & the use of Moxa [Mogusa] as a medical remedy. The West is still learning about effectiveness of these two medical treatments to this day. Kaempfer's influence on the Japanese is difficult to assess, except that some of Japan's most intellectual scientists, physicians, reformers and scholars got their Rangaku from Deshima after Kaempfer arrived. Shiba Kokan the "Da Vinci of Japan", Matsukawa Hanzan and a host of others led Japan through the halls of innovation for the next two hundred and fifty years. Even today, medicine is still considered as "Rangaku" in Japan. The roots of Japan becoming a modern, well educated nation emanates from its first introduction of European learning via Deshima. * This book documents the beginning of that era. In just two years' stay in Japan, Dr. Kaempfer began Japan's long voyage of equality with the West. This is also the first and earliest reference in the West about Japanese papermaking. R A R E in either edition. * Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Dutch East India factory at Deshima in 1779-1780 & 1781-1784 in Nagasaki. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL * M. Takahashi: CATALOGUE OF SPECIAL BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, Tenri 1932, vol.1, p.198, no. 4-8; * H. Cordier: JAPONICA 414-15. * Wellcome III 376. * Veith, I.: HUANG TI NEI CHING SU WEN: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, illustrates the famous plate on accupuncture found in Kaempfer. * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

London 1728, Thomas Woodward. New full tooled fine leather, raised bands, two-tone, folio, 22.5 x 35.5 cm., 2 vol. set, small canceled ex-libris stamps on title page, else clean, blind-stamped decorations, large paper, untrimmed. R A R E !

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KAEMPFER, Englebert.. 1906. THE HISTORY OF JAPAN TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF SIAM 1690-92..
THE TRUE & EARLY ACCOUNT OF 18TH CENTURY JAPAN BY A DOCTOR A reduced size, but complete reprint of the First edition was published in 1727 by J.G. Scheuchzer. The 2nd. edition in 1778 was improved containing a second index, & a 75-page appendix on the Natural History of the Japanese tea, with accurate description of that plant, its culture, growth, preparation and uses. Also of the paper manufacture of the Japanese. Of the Cure of the Cholick [sic] by the acupuncture, or needle-pricking as it is used by the Japanese. An account of Moxa, an excellent caustic of the Chinese and Japanese, showing how & where to insert the needles & where to burn. In all, the original had 45 finely engraved copper plates and maps, with early illustrations on Japanese tea plants, herb logy & acupuncture adorn this work. * SUBTITLE: Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State of government of that Empire, of its Temples, Palaces...of the chronology & Succession of the Emperors...Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam...Kaempfer [1651-1716] was a German doctor with a passion for traveling. He went to Nagasaki in 1690-91. His work covers Japanese history & a very reliable & lucid description of the political, social & physical state of the country in the 17th century. * For upwards of 100 years this work remained the chief source of reliable and primary information for the rest of the world. Kaempfer was essentially stationed in Nagasaki harbor on the prison-like island of Dejima, the entrance of which was controlled by the Japanese. There he performed his medical duties as Dutch East India Company physician. Once a year, a representative of the Company was allowed to go to Edo under very strict military guard, to be observed by the Shogun. The entourage went by way of Nagasaki to Kokura, Osaka, Miaco [Kyoto], Fammamatz [Hamamatsu], to Edo, basically up the Tokaido highway. Kaempfer was sent to the Shogun's palace in Edo he was ordered to dance, sing & eat while being scrutinized by the Shogun who shielded himself behind a Sudare or bamboo curtain. The Shogun secretly watched the Oranda-jin [a Dutchman]. Kaempfer was a very open & free-thinking educated man, who was also an intellectual. The Shogun took to him & granted the favor of free travel throughout Japan, unheard of during this period of Japan's & fear of Westerners and isolation to the rest of the world. The Dutch were allowed just so many vessels to visit annually & trade with their "window to the world" at Dejima. Nagasaki became a gathering place for curious Japanese, as well as would-be Ran-gaku-sha [Japanese Scholars of Dutch Learning] who studied science, medicine, astronomy, geography, cartography and the Western art of copper plate printing. From this very tiny island "window" Japan's curious intellectuals made a school & began to teach Western style knowledge to an elite Japanese intelligentsia. * Kaempfer was one of the scant few who gave favor to the rise of such Japanese and taught them what he could. This most famous primary resource has been celebrated since its publication as THE single most important book on Japan in the 18th century. Over the past two centuries & a half, this work has maintained its position as one of the three most important books on Japan done in English in the West. Highly collectable and coveted by connoisseurs, historians & librarians renders this a magnificent primary resource with fabulous etchings. The addition of the appendices in 1728 on the Tea Camellia is the first appearance of this in English. Also the first discussion of acupuncture & the use of Moxa [Mogusa] as a medical remedy. The West is still learning about effectiveness of these two medical treatments to this day. Kaempfer's influence on the Japanese is difficult to assess, except that some of Japan's most intellectual scientists, physicians, reformers and scholars got their Rangaku from Deshima after Kaempfer arrived. Shiba Kokan the "Da Vinci of Japan", Matsukawa Hanzan and a host of others led Japan through the halls of innovation for the next two hundred and fifty years. Even today, medicine is still considered as "Rangaku" in Japan. The roots of Japan becoming a modern, well educated nation emanates from its first introduction of European learning via Deshima. This book documents the beginning of that era. In just two years' stay in Japan, Dr. Kaempfer began Japan's long voyage of equality with the West. RARE in either edition. Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Deshima factory in 1779-1780 and 1781-1784 in Nagasaki. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: * E. Cox: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL, p.332 * M. Takahashi: CATALOGUE OF SPECIAL BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, Tenri 1932, vol.1, p.198, no. 4-8. * R A R E. A complete reprint of the original London 1727 edition, with all illustrations. * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Glasgow 1906, MacLehose. Red cloth, 3 vols. complete, superb bright and clean copy, 336+396+385p., fold-out plates, 15 x 23 cm., reprint of 1727 edition. LIMITED EDITION 1000 COPIES COLLECTOR'S CONDITION

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Ihlau, Olaf: Die roten Kämpfer. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich. Meisenheim am Glan, Anton Hain, 1969.
Originalausgabe. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit einer Seitenströmung der Arbeiterbewegung in der Endphase der Weimarer Republik und im illegalen Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Die "Roten Kämpfer" waren eine der zahlreichen politischen Splittergruppierungen, die sich im Verlauf der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929/1930 von den Massenparteien SPD und KPD abspalteten. - Diese Arbeit wurde 1968 von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Philipps-Universität Marburg als Dissertation angenommen und ist in der Reihe erschienen: Marburger Abhandlungen zur Politischen Wissenschaft. Hrsg. v. Wolfgang Abendroth., 14. - Aus dem Inhalt: Zur Vorgeschichte der "Roten Kämpfer". Das Entstehen des "Roten Kämpfer" (RK). Die Entwicklung des "Roten Kämpfer" vom Leipziger Parteitag bis zur Gründung der SAP. Die Stellung der "Roten Kämpfer" zur SAP. Etc. - Biographien über Jan Appel, Dr. James Broh, Franz Blazeizak, Hans Blazeijszak, Ernst Froebel, Kurt Gehrmann, Hermann Gorter, Arthur Goldstein, Franz Jung, Willi Kappel, Karl Kuntze, Erwin Lange, Dr. Paul Levi, Franz Lohmeyer, Hans Marchwitza, Professor Hans Mayer, August Merges, Dietrich Oppenberg, Anton Pannekoek, Franz Pfemfert, Josef Prenner, Max Prenzlow, Fritz Rasch, Bernhard Reichenbach, Fritz Riwotzki, Alfred Rudolph, Martel Rudolph, Otto Rühle, Emil Sach, Adam Scharrer, Dr. Karl Schröder, Alexander Schwab, Lotte Schwarz, Dr. Fritz Sternberg, Franz Peter Utzelmann, Helmut Wagner.

(14), 223, (3) S. Orangefarbener Orig.-Kart. mit schwarzer Typographie.

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