kaempfer history of japan (58 Ergebnisse)

London 1853, Ingram. New brown cloth, 105p., very good, with illustration of Port of Nagasaki frontispiece, translated by J.G. Scheuchzer. Q U I T E R A R E This work covers his sojourn in Japan. Beginning with a gen- eralhistory, provinces & government, his opinion of the true origin of the Japanese, Japanese origins, climate, produce, minerals, plant life, beasts, birds, reptiles, insects, fish and shells. The Gods, Emperors, monarch, ecclesiastical life chronology of Japan, religious beliefs, Sinto & it's temples and shrines, Isje, mountain priests, Bushido & foreign pagan worship. Of special interest is the commentary on his trip up the Tokaido to visit the Emperor's court at Yedo, with a description of travel manner by land & sea. Desription what he saw enroutet, post houses, eating-houses, tea-booths,inns & most of all the people he met. Notes on his Court visit, & audience with the Shogun audience. A fascinating primary source by the scholarly physician stationed at Deshima in Nagasaki Bay & employed with the Dutch East India Co. His valuable commentary was the sole source for over 100 years. Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Deshima factory 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. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS ***.

London [1840], Knight. A single sheet map, hand colored,very clean, matted, 12.5 x 16 inches, with inset of Nagasaki that shows the Dutch factory at Deshima, and also inset of Yeso. An excellent map, finely executed, nicely colored. Showing the tip of the Korean coast. Illustrating the whole of Japan from Yesso through the end of Kiousiou, noting in English cities, villages, mountains, rivers, islands, bays &c.

Hardcover. First Edition. Two folio (8-1/2" x 13-3/4) volumes in contemporary calf leather, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English, second issue (with the additional appendix in volume 2), translated from the German by J. G. Scheuchzer. Titles printed in red and black with additional engraved titles and 45 mostly double-page or folding plates and maps. Kaempfer's HISTORY OF JAPAN "was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer; an account of his journey; a history and description of Japan and its fauna; a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendices, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy" (DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY). Kaempfer was a physician for the Dutch East India Company's trading settlement at Nagasaki in the late 17th century. Sir Hans Sloane acquired the manuscript after Kaempfer's death, and arranged for it to be translated into English for this edition. Of significance is the fine folding map of Japan, "Imperium Japonicum in Sexaginta et Octo Provincias Divisum." Cordier, JAPONICA pages 414-15; Cox I: 332; Garrison-Morton 6374.11; See Nissen BBI 1019 note; Wellcome III: 376. Light dampstaining in second volume. Generally clean and bright, Near Fine.

hardcover. Zustand: very good. 3 volumes. Illustrated, some folding, tall thick 8vo, untrimmed, rose cloth (extremities rubbed, spines faded, internally intact). Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1906. Originally published in 1727. First Edition thus.

Glasgow 1906, MacLehose. Red decorated cloth, very good copy 3 vol., 336+396+385p., 162 maps, illustrations, many folding small margin stain last few page edges,text clean,solid copy untrimmed, reprint of London 1727, 15 x 22 cm., tops gilt. A reduced size, but exact and complete reprint of the First edition, published 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. * WHO WAS DR. ENGELBERT KAEMPFER: 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 GULIDE 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; * 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. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS *** R A R E. A complete reprint of the original London 1727 edition, with all illustrations. *.

Glasgow 1906, MacLehose. Red cloth, 336+398+386p., 3 volume set, many fold out plates, index, superbly bright, fine copy a reprint copy of London 1727 edition, tops gilt,15 x 23 cm. FINE COPY IN COLLECTOR'S FINE CONDITION A reduced size, but exact and complete reprint of the First edition, published 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. * WHO WAS DR. ENGELBERT KAEMPFER: 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 GULIDE 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; * 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. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS *** R A R E. A complete reprint of the original London 1727 edition, with all illustrations. *.

Glasgow 1906, MacLehose. Red cloth, 336+398+386p., 3 volume set, 162 fold out plates, maps, text illustrations, index, s reprint copy of London 1727 edition, tops gilt, 15 x 23 cm., excellent copy, untrimmed. !UNCUT! IN COLLECTOR'S CONDITION! A reduced size, but exact and complete reprint of the First edition, published 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. * WHO WAS DR. ENGELBERT KAEMPFER: 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 GULIDE 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; * 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. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS *** R A R E. A complete reprint of the original London 1727 edition, with all illustrations. *.

Glasgow, James Maclehose and Sons, 1906. 3 volúmenes. En 4º ( 225 x 140)mm. -I: Retrato, lxxxix-(1) pp., (1) h., 336, (1) pp., (1) h. -II: ix-(1) pp., 396, (2) pp. -III: viii-(2) pp., 385, (2) pp. En total 162 ilustraciones y mapas ilustrando la obra, incluyendo 16 mapas plegados y fasÃmiles. Enuadernacià n original en tela roja estampada en oro. Segunda edicià n inglesa de la famosa Historia de Japà n de Kaempfer, publicada por vez primera en dos volúmenes en folio y no reimpresa en su totalidad hasta la presente segunda edicià n. La edicià n incluye una vida del autor y una larga introduccià n histà rica. "Its chief interest liest in its account of an abotive attempt to revive the Englisg trade with Japan which had ceased since 1623-24" (nota del editor). Excelente ejemplar en su condicià n original, sin cortar. Second edition English standard history of Japan, first published in two volumes in 1727 and not reprinted in full until the present edition. Includes a life of the author and a long historical introduction. "Its chief iterest lies in its account of an abortive attempt to revive the Englisg trade with Japan which had ceased since 1623-24" (publisher's note). 225x140mm. (8¾x5½").

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Volume 2 only. First edition. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Rebacked spine, red cloth cover with gilt decoration, cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, bumped corners. A few minor tidemarks and staining on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Volume 1 only. Rebacked spine, cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and bumped corners. Pages are clean.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 337pp+397pp+386pp, three octavo volumes in teal colored cloth boards. small labels to bottom spines, boards clean, minor foxing to top page edges, tight bindings, interiors clean throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: gut. London Th. Woodward und Ch. Davis 1727-1728. - Lange Zeit das maßgebliche Werk über Japan, verfaßt von einem der bedeutendsten Forschungsreisenden des 17. Jahrhunderts. Erschienen in der Zeit des allgemeinen Einreiseverbots für Europäer. Zweiter Druck der ersten englischen Ausgabe, gegenüber dem Erstdruck um den 2. Appendix vermehrt; Kupfertitel 1727, beide typographischen Titel bereits 1728 datiert. Der deutsche Originaltext erschien erst 50 Jahre später im Druck. Der englischen Erstausgabe lag Kaempfers deutsches Manuskript zugrunde. - "Das erste auf Autopsie und Quellenauswertung beruhende Grundwerk über Japan . leitete eine neue Epoche der Kenntnis von Japan ein" (Henze III, 3f.). Der klassische Bericht behandelt neben Geschichte, Landeskunde und Geographie Japans ausführlich auch naturwissenschaftliche Fragen aus Botanik und Medizin, ferner (im Anhang) Teekultur, Papierherstellung und Akupunktur. Unter den großen Kupfern die schöne Japan-Karte (Walter 76A) und Ansichten von Jedo und Nagasaki sowie mythologische und kultische Darstellungen, Pflanzen (Tee), Tiere und einige Schrifttafeln. - EINBAND: Lederbände d. Zt. mit etwas floraler Rückenvergoldung und farbigem Rückenschild sowie blindgeprägten Deckeln. 36 : 23 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit gestochenem Titel und 45 Kupfertafeln (meist doppelblattgr. bzw. mehrfach gefaltet) von W. Hulett, C. Moore und G. van der Gucht. - KOLLATION: 6 Bll., LII, 391 S., 2 Bll.; 2 Bll., S. 393-612, 75 S., 1 Bl., 11 S., 6 Bll. (d. l. w.). - ZUSTAND: Teils in den Rändern etw. stockfl. bzw. wasserrandig, beide typogr. Titel mit kl. hinterlegten Ausschnitt im w. R., Japankarte geringfüg. gebräunt sowie mit hinterl. Falzeinriß. Einbd. etw. beschabt, Rücken und Ecken unter Verwendung alten Materials erneuert. - Provenienz: Alte flieg. Vorsätze mit Besitzeintrag CW Wason, vermutlich der China-Sammler Charles W. Wason (1854-1918), dat. 9.3.(19)15. - LITERATUR: Cordier 414f. - Alt-Japan-Katalog 709. - Landwehr VOC 530 Anm. - Cox I, 332. - DSB VII, 205. - Vgl. Nissen Bot. 1019 Anm und Mueller, Kaffee 116 Anm. - For a long time the authoritative work on Japan, written by one of the most important explorers of the 17th century. Published at the time of the general entry ban for Europeans. Second print of the first edition, with the second appendix. Engr. title dated 1727, typogr. titles dated 1728. The original German text only appeared in print 50 years later. With engr. title and 45 copperplates (mostly double-sheet or folded several times). Contemp. calf with some floral gilding, label on spine and blindstamped cover. 36 : 23 cm. - Margins somewhat foxed or waterstained, both typogr. titles with small backed cutout in the white lower margin, Japan map slightly browned and with backed fold tear. Binding slightly scraped, spine and corners renewed using old material. Old front flying endpapers with ownership entry CW Wason, probably Charles W. Wason (1854-1918, the China collector, dated March 9th (19)15.

Two volumes. Title pages in red and black. 36 x 22.6cm. Volume I: 4 double page maps (2 folding), 18 engravings, [7], lii, 391, [1]pp and 4 page explanation of plates. Volume II: 45 maps and plates, [2], 393 - 612pp, 6 page index, 75 page appendix to the History of Japan, 11 page second appendix and a 4 page explanation of plates. Bound in half leather, marbled paper boards, in cloth covered slipcase. Book plate of a prior owner preliminary leaf in each volume, very light sunning on spines, cloth slipcase rubbed with minor loss along two edges, otherwise an excellent copy. A handsome limited edition facsimile of this classic work on Japan published to the 250th year anniversary of the publication of the first English edition of Kaempfer's The History of Japan was publshed. The comprehensive coverage given in this early authoritative account of Japan, covering as it does so many aspects of the country including history, natural history, buildings, religion, customs and trade with the outside world, reflects the three years that Kaempfer travelled freely in Japan. The section on Siam in the first volume includes information on the period after the fall of King Narai when succession was in doubt and most foreigners had been excluded from the Kingdom. Number 124 of a limited edition of 300 copies.

Zustand: New. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of i.

Zustand: New. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of i.

3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. lxxxix, [3], 336, [1], [1 leaf]; ix, [1], 396, [2]; viii, [1], 385, [1]. 162 illus., incl. a photogravure portrait frontis., 23 plates & maps (16 folding), & many text wood engravings (some full-page). decorative initials. Uncut in original cloth (spines faded, small puncture to spine of Vol. II, extremities chipped & frayed, foxing to frontis.). Limited to 1,000 copies. An important and influential history of Japan, first published in two folio volumes in 1727-28 and not reprinted in full until this present edition. Kaempfer, a German physician, set out for Japan in May of 1690 in a professional capacity with the Dutch embassy. The ship in which he sailed touched at Siam, whose capital he visited, and in September he arrived at Nagasaki, the only Japanese port then open to foreigners. He remained there for the next two years, during which time he twice visited Tokyo, and engaged himself in an extensive study of Japanese history, geography, customs, and flora. He returned to Java and then Holland in 1693. A life of the author and a long historical introduction are included in this edition.

Folio (225 x 370 mm). (4), 50, (2), 500 pp. With engraved title-page, additional title-page printed in red and black, and 48 engraved maps, plans and plates, all but 1 double-page (numb. I-XLV, pl. XXVIII and XXIX with A- & B-number, pl. 24 followed by 24*; 9 folding, some numbers in ms.). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with handwritten spine-title. First Dutch edition. The standard work on Japan which "was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country" (DSB). The first historically and scientifically accurate description of Japan, this major work comprises the first biography of Kaempfer and an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima, a report on two embassies to Edo (now Tokyo) including descriptions of the cities visited on the way, and 6 appendices on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy. The illustrations depict ports and scenery, costumes, characters, temples, ceremonies, Japanese fauna and flora, ships and coins, as well as mythological figures like the Buddhist goddess Quanwon. Furthermore, the work comprises a large folding map of the Empire of Japan, folding city plans of Nagasaki and Edo, and seven regional maps showing Kaempfer's itinerary. - Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) was a professor from Lemgo, Germany, who joined the Dutch East India Company as a physician in 1685. After periods in India and Indonesia he travelled in 1690 to Japan to work as a doctor in Dejima (Deshima), the Dutch trading post and factory in Nagasaki and one of the few places where Western and Japanese people were allowed to interact. During his three-year term of duty, Kaempfer was twice allowed to journey to Edo (Tokyo) in the company of the head of the factory. After his return to Europe he wrote a number of works but did not publish them, leaving them in manuscript at his death. Sir Hans Sloane acquired these manuscripts, along with his drawings and herbarium, and arranged for their translation and publication. The first to appear was "The History of Japan" in 1727, here offered in Dutch translation. This work established Kaempfer's reputation as the 18th century authority on Japan and deeply influenced Japan's image in Europe. - Extremities slightly rubbed. Occasional minor browning; small tear to map of the Japanese Empire rebacked with paper. Small armorial blindstamp to flyleaf and title-page. Old shelfmark label and later small-scale reproduction of the map of the Japanese Empire mounted to pastedown. - Tiele 584. Landwehr (VOC) 531. Cordier (Japonica) 417f. DSB VII, 204ff. Howgego 562. Henze III, 3-6. Cat. NHSM 233. Rouffaer/Muller 440. Cf. Wellcome III, 376.

Zustand: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Folio (265 x 420 mm). (4), 3, (1) pp. With 59 etched plates (8 are double-page) by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine. First and only edition of one of the rarest books on Japanese flora. Kaempfer (1651-1716) was a professor from Lemgo, Germany, who joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a physician in 1685. After periods in what are now India and Indonesia he travelled in 1690 to Japan to work as a doctor on Dejima (Deshima), the Dutch trading post or factory in Nagasaki. This was one of the rare places where Western and Japanese people were allowed to interact. During his three-year term of duty, Kaempfer was twice allowed to journey to Edo (now Tokyo) in the company of the head of the factory. Upon his return he went into medical practice in his native town, Lemgo. After his return to Europe he wrote a number of works in manuscript, but did publish them, leaving them in manuscript at his death. Sir Hans Sloane acquired these manuscripts, alsong with his drawings and herbarium, and arranged for their translation and publication, the first to appear in translation was The history of Japan in 1727. This English translation established Kaempfer's reputation as the 18th-century authority on Japan and deeply influenced Japan's image in Europe. - Kaempfer's botanical drawings used for the present publication were among the more than 4000 groups of manuscripts from Sloane's collection that formed the core of the Library of the British Museum when it was established in 1753 (Sloane MS 2914). The renowned botanist and companion of the 1768 Cook expedition Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was responsible for the editing and publication of this work and dedicated it to the curators of the Library. In most cases no plates had previously been made from these drawings, so they remained unpublished. In the last years of his life Kaempfer himself had published only a small number of his drawings in his Amoenitatum exoticarum, printed in Lemgo in 1712. Thus the present publication introduces many Japanese plants for the first time to a large audience in the West. Kaempfer's herbarium is now in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. - Royal Library duplicate stamp in the foot of title page. With some minor foxing, the last few plates stained only in the lower margin, not affecting the illustrations. Otherwise in very good condition. - Great Flower Books, p. 62. Henrey 886. Nissen (BBI) 1019. Stafleu/Cowan 3484.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. London: Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, 1727. Coloured. 465 x 540mm. A very fine example of this important map of Japan, published in Scheuchzer's translation of Kaempfer's 'History of Japan'. Japan is divided into 68 provinces, each named in Roman and Japanese characters. Two inset maps give the Russian and Japanese versions of northern Japan: the Russians have Japan almost touching Kamchatka; the Japanese show 'Jesogasima', the as yet unexplored Hokkaido. After living in Japan between September 1690 and October 1692, employed as a physician by the Dutch East India Company, Kaempfer returned to his native Germany and wrote a description of the country. He died before he could find a publisher, but Sir Hans Sloane acquired his papers and instructed Scheuchzer, his librarian, to translate his account. Thus the first edition was published in London, with French and Dutch editions translated from the English. HUBBARD: 77.

LII, 392 pages, 4 uncounted pages with "An explanation of the plates belonging to the first Volume of this History of Japan", with illustrations and folded maps / Page 393-612, 75 pages of "The appendix to the history of Japan", 11 pages with "The second appendix to Dr. Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan: Being part of an authentick Journal of a Voyage to Japan, made by the English in the year 1673", 4 pages with "An explanation of the plates belonging to the second Volume of this History of Japan", 6 pages with the index, this part also with plates. With coloured top-edge. Books in a very good condition. Three hundred copies have been printed of which 290 copies are for sale. This copy number is 66. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 Or.-halfleatherbinding, with marbled paper, gr. 4to, in a cloth-slipcase. This facsimile edition is issued in memory of the 250th year of the first English edition of Engelbert Kämpfer's The History of Japan. Reprint from copy of 1727 by.

folio, 35.5cm, The First Edition in French, in Two Volumes, lii,217,[1]; & 76,67-313,[1],36,39-73,[1],73-96pp., engraved title vignettes, engraved headpiece on first page of dedication, extra engraved title to vol. I, and with 45 engraved plates and maps, mostly folding; titles printed in red and black (rubricated), in contemporary full calf, real raised bands, gilt decorations and borders in the panels, new endpapers; neat early repair to the head of spine on vol. I , some damp staining to extra title; leaves of vol. I were guarded long ago, causing browning at gutter edge; pl. IV trimmed to neatline, pl. VII trimmed to neatline and laid down, and pl. VIII (large folding map of Japan) trimmed at head affecting upper portion of running title but not the map image itself; vol. II is extremely clean, an attractive set in contemporary binding. (cgc). Brunet III: 638. Cox I- p333. Cordier Japonica, 416. "Kaempfer was a well-known German physician and naturalist with a passion for travelling. Before his arrival in Japan, he had accompanied the Swedish embassy under Louis Fabricius to Persia, then engaged as surgeon with the Dutch fleet, visited India and Batavia, and at length reached Japan, where he stayed three years collecting material for his work. Here he secured the good will of the authorities so completely that he was allowed to travel where and as he pleased." This work has "long been recognised as the most authoritative account of that country published at that time" -(Cox) and was the chief source of Western knowledge of Japan for more than a century. The manuscript for this work was purchased, after Kaempfer's death, by Sir Hans Sloane, who had it translated from the German and published in 1727 as The History of Japan. This edition was based on that first English edition, and contains a biography of Kaempfer, his account of his travels in Japan, descriptions of the country's fauna and flora, and descriptions of several of the major cities. The appendices contain further information on tea, Japanese paper, methods of acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and reasons and methods of the country's seclusion policy. A scarce work, and most important.

1. Auflage dieser Ausgabe. Nach der 1773 in Lemgo im Nachlaß der Budertochter gefundenen Handschrift. Vorliegende überarbeitete, gekürzte und ergänzte Ausgabe beruht auf der von Dohm herausgegebenen Ausgabe: Engelbert Kaempfers Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan, Lemgo, 1777 und 1779. Die Ergänzungen beruhen auf den in Breslau herausgekommenen kritischen und philosophischen Bemerkungen über Japan und die Japaner. Mit 7 ausklappbaren Kupferkarten. 8°, ca. 19,2 x 11,4 cm, 7 Bl., 350 S., 1 Bl. Verlagsanzeige, roter Farbschnitt, Original-Halblederband. Inhalt: Vorrede / Anzeige und Erklärung der Kupfer / Erklärung der vorkommenden japanischen Münze / Reise von Batavia über Siam nach Japan / Geographie, Naturgeschichte und Einwohner von Japan / Politische Verfassung des japanischen Reichs / Von der Religionsverfassung und den verschiedenen Sekten in Japan / Beschreibung von Nangasacki / Vom Handel der Ausländer nach Japan, und besonders von der Verfassung der Holländer / Allgemeine Reisenachrichten von Japan / Erste Reise des Verfassers nach Jedo und wieder zurück / Zweite Hofreise. Tafel I: Schwimmende Dörfer, oder bewohnte Kähne der Siamer / Tafel II: die zwei Höfe des Berklams Tempel / Tafel III: eine Mia oder Sintos Tempel / Tafel IV: der Tempel des Tensjo Daisin zu Isje (nur zur Hälfte erhalten) / Tafel V: Aufzug der Holländischen Gesandschaft / Tafel VI: Prospect vom Schloß, Stadt und Hafen Muru / Tafel VII: der (kaiserliche) Audienzsaal. Die Vorrede dieser Ausgabe ist erweitert - gegenüber der Ausgabe in der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg. Name auf Titelblatt: F. Lichtewitz oder Lichtewick ? Engelbert Kaempfer (geboren 16. September 1651 in Lemgo; gestorben 2. November 1716 in Lieme) deutscher Arzt und Forschungsreisender. Im Zuge einer fast zehnjährigen Forschungsreise (1683 bis 1693) die ihn schließlich 1690 - 1692 nach Japan führte, sammelte er zahlreiche Kenntnisse zur Geographie, Natur, Gesellschaft, Religion, Politik, Verwaltung sowie den Wissenschaften und Künsten der bereisten Regionen. Lang: deutsch 501 g. Rücken mit Einriß, Einband berieben und bestoßen, Tafel IV nur zur Hälfte vorhanden, Seiten vereinzelt fleckig, S. 293 mit Tintenfleck, sonst gut erhalten.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Engelbert Kaempfers 'Amoenitates Exoticae' (Lemgo, 1712) begründeten seinen Ruf als Forschungsreisender und Pionier der Erkundung 'Ostindiens' von Persien bis ins ferne Japan. Kaempfer erforschte die japanische Pflanzenwelt als erster europäischer Feldbotaniker. Daher vermittelt der fünfte Teil der 'Amoenitates', die 'Flora Japonica', erstmals einen fundierten Überblick über die japanische Pflanzenwelt. Sie wurde in Europa als botanischer Grundlagen- und Referenztext bis ins 19. Jahrhundert geschätzt und genutzt.Dieser Band bietet erstmals in der Editionsgeschichte von Kaempfers Schriften den wichtigen neulateinischen Text mit der Übersetzung des klassischen Philologen Dr. Karl August Neuhausen. Der Japanologe und Medizinhistoriker Professor Dr. Wolfgang Michel (Fukuoka/Japan) sowie die Wissenschafts- und Botanikhistorikerin Frau Professor Dr. Brigitte Hoppe (München), die beide seit Jahrzehnten über Kaempfer forschen, haben für jede Pflanze ausführliche Kommentare verfasst. Die von Kaempfer vorgestellten japanischen Namen werden in ihr philologisches Umfeld gestellt, seine Beschreibungen sachkundlich kommentiert und eine taxonomische Einordnung der betreffenden Pflanze vorgenommen.Die Einleitungen der beiden Herausgeber führen in den historischen Hintergrund und die Problematik der Erforschung japanischer Pflanzen ein. Die Ausgabe bietet Botanik- und Kulturhistorikern sowie Lesern, die an Kaempfer und Japan interessiert sind, einen substanziellen Einblick in diesen Zweig der Forschungen des großen Reisenden.Zugleich ist der Band der erste der Reihe 'Kaempferiana', in der bislang unveröffentlichte bzw. wenig erschlossene Texte Kaempfers und Materialien zu seinem Leben und Werk zugänglich gemacht werden.\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*Engelbert Kaempfer's Amoenitates Exoticae (Lemgo, 1712) established his reputation as an explorer and pioneer of the study of 'East India', from Persia to distant Japan. Kaempfer was the first European botanist to study the plants of Japan. The fifth part of his Amoenitates, entitled 'Flora Japonica' was the first fact-based overview of Japanese fauna. It was appreciated and used in Europe as a fundamental text and reference work until the 19th century.This volume is the first in the history of Kaempfer editions to present the important neo-Latin text with the translation by the classical philologist Dr Karl August Neuhausen. The Japanologist and medical historian Dr Wolfgang Michel (Fukuoka/Japan) and the historian of science and botany Professor Dr Brigitte Hoppe (Munich), who have both studied Kaempfer for many years, have compiled detailed commentaries for each plant. The Japanese names given by Kaempfer are set in their philological context, his descriptions are accompanied by an expert commentary and the plants are placed in a taxonomic order.The introductions by the two editors discuss the historical background and the problems of researching Japanese plants. The edition offers historians of art and botany, and readers interested in Kaempfer and in Japan, a substantial insight into the great traveller's studies.The book is also the first volume in the series 'Kaempferiana', which will publish new editions of under-researched texts by Kaempfer and material relating to his life and work.

Edition : First French Edition. , Contemporary full calf. Spine in seven compartments of raised bands. Text on Morocco label on 2. Tooled ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Tooled dentelles on all edges. All edges speckled. , Text is in French. A history of Japan created by a German physician during the early 18th century. Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 ?1716) was a German naturalist, physician, and writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. His History of Japan, published posthumously in 1727, was the chief source of Western knowledge about the country throughout the 18th and mid-19th centuries when it was closed to foreigners. Kaempfer stayed two years in Japan, during which time he twice visited Edo and the Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. He conducted extensive studies on local plants. When he visited Buddhist monks in Nagasaki in February 1691, he was the first western scholar to describe the tree Ginkgo biloba. Kaempfer also collected materials and information on Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion. His treatise on the cure of colic using needles and his presentation of a Japanese "Moxa-mirror" had a considerable influence on the reception of Far Eastern medicine in 18th-century Europe. Has bookplate of Nordkirchen Library (m the library of the Dukes of Arenberg at their Nordkirchen castle) on verso of top cover. , Size : Folio (362x234mm). , Complete with engraved title page, a table of the Japanese alphabet, 9 maps and 36 plates. , Volume : 2 volumes in 1. , References : Cordier, Japonica p. 414-15; Cox I:332 ;Howgego 1 K1, P. Blank, engraved title, title, dedication, epistle (3), table (2), preface (i-iv), life of the author (v-xii), tanslator?s discourse (xiii-xliii), explination of the plates (xlv-lii), table, 1-217, title, chaper table (2), 1-313, 1-96, blank. (77 mispag. as 67 and count continues from there; page 37 of the appendix mispag as 39 and count continues from there; 74 mispag as 73 and count continues from there) A fine example of this important work. Text and plates are clean and crisp. In full period calf.

La Haye 1729, Grosse.Full contemporary leather,Volume 1 only 217p., French text, 45 engraved copper plates, 4 engraved maps, some folding, complete, small folio: 37 x 23.5 cm., ie: 45 fine double page copper plates. FIRST FRENCH EDITION *** *** *** . . . VOLUME 1 ONLY, COMPLETE AS ISSUED . . . A STUNNING & EARLY ILLUSTRATED PRIMARY RESOURCE ON . . JAPAN & SIAM . . . WRITTEN BY A GERMAN DOCTOR STATIONED IN . . . THE DUTCH COLONY ON DESHIMA ISLAND, NAGASAKI . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH 45 LARGE ENGRAVINGS & MAPS . . . WITH EARLY EXAMPLES OF ACUPUNCTURE & INSTRUMENTS . . . EARLY ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLE OF THE TEA PLANT . * THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION, 1729: . The most valuable & accurate 18th century work about Japan. Kaempfer was a physician to the Dutch Embassy at the Emperor's court. This is the French edition translated by Jean-Gaspar Schuetzer from the 1727 & 1728 English editions. . His privileged position & acute powers of observation enabled him to write a detailed & far-reaching account of Japanese history, culture, economics & natural history. . Kaempfer also found it fascinating to draw, illustrate several examples of the Japanese language, acupuncture instruments, 'points' to apply acupuncture needles & human anatomy 'points' charts. . He also found and drew the Tea plant, and others related to Washi [handmade mulberry] & other fibers used in to make the super strong and flexible paper. . *** With two appendices on Tea and Japanese Papermaking, index, with additional commentaries on Siam. Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Deshima factory in 1779-1780 and 1781-1784. . Volume 1 contains the first three books on Japan. When present volume 2 continues and also includes texts on Siam. . *** Color photos are posted to our website . *** LIST OF THE FIRST 12 COPPER-ETCHED PLATES & MAPS: 1. ETOILE DE MER 2. PLAN DE JUTHIA, [SIAM] 3. PLAN DU PALAIS ROYAL DE SIAM 4. LA PRIMINDE DE PUKATHON 5. VUE DES DEUX COURS DU TEMPLE DE BERKLAM 6. UN GRANDE PIRAMIDE 7. CARTE DE COURS DE LA RIVIER DE MEINAM 8. CARTE DE L'EMPIRE DU JAPON [large folding] 9. KIRIN 10. MUKADDE 11. POIFFONS [fish] 12. QUATRE DIFFERENTES FORTES D'ANGUILES . The large folding maps show all of Japan, Edo, Kyoto, Nagasaki & Deshima Island and several others. . Continued with a total of 45 mostly 2 page engraved illustrations, plan and maps, most of the maps open to be more than 2 full pages. . The title page titles are printed in red and black ink with engraved vignettes and a full-page engraved half title page. . CONDITION: OF THE 45 SUPERB COPPER ENGRAVED PLATES: . These plates are in pristine & excellent condition, fresh, bright and solid without any issues. By and large, every page in this book is superb, far and above other examples. . THE FULL PERIOD LEATHER BINDING: The work is bound in contemporary calf leather, with two armorial devices, one per each cover. The original spine is present, with the red leather label & gold stamped titles, and other elaborate spine gilt decorations. With 6 raised bands. . Being a contemporary binding, this is 392 years old, and is showing its age. In original condition, the front hinge is cracked at the top and bottom portions; the back hinge is cracked top to bottom. There are some old tears to the covers, some mended, scuffed, corners and edges rubbed, loss of leather and the like, usual for a book of this age and period. . There are 2 old black stamps, one on the lower edge of the half-title, no image affected. The other is at the lower one-third of the title page in the right margin. Both have been mildly 'sanded' each is 2.3 cm. in diameter, not of major impact to the book. The stamp says "IHS" balance unread. . Remarkably the book is still relatively firm in the binding The end papers are the mid-18 type, large patterned hand-marbled French examples. . The major point we would like to emphasize, is that the covers have performed their duty. The contents remains incredibly bright, clean, solid, firm and without issues. The book looks like on from about a 100 year ago! All edges are red as issued by the publisher. . The margins on this work are wide and full. We believe this book is about the size it was published, still in the original 1729 French full leather binding, so bound and untrimmed: a. text to top edge = 4 cm. b. left gutter/hinge 3.5 cm. + c. right edge 5 cm. d. bottom 7 cm. . The book is complete with every page and copper etching called for. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** This is a large and heavy item, appropriate packing, post & insurance applies. . *** REFERENCES: . Graesse IV, 1; * Brunet III, 638 * B. Quaritch 1006, 487 * Bruner: III 638 * Chadenat 6020 * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS. *.

First edition in French, the second overall following the English edition of 1727, of this encyclopaedic description of Japan's flora and fauna, religion and customs, and government and industries. Kaempfer's account framed European understanding of Japan for over a century, and it was considered so definitive that later experts such as Isaac Titsingh saw no need to compose their own. Born in Westphalia, Kaempfer (1651-1716) graduated in 1676 with a doctorate in languages, history, and medicine from Cracow. In 1681 he moved to Upsala and two years later was chosen to accompany Ludwig Fabritius's embassy from Charles XII to Russia and Persia. At Esfahan, he decided not to return with the rest of the party, but instead obtained employment with the Dutch East India Company and headed south for Bandar Abbas, where for two years he was the surgeon at the Dutch factory. In 1688 he set sail for the east and, on 24 September 1690, "he arrived at the Dutch factory of Deshima in Nagasaki, Japan, the only Japanese port at that time open to foreign trade" (Howgego). In 1691 Kaempfer embarked with the head of the factory on his first journey to the imperial court at Edo, receiving an audience with Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. He made a second similar trip in 1692 before leaving Japan and returning to Batavia, eventually sailing for Europe some time in 1693. Kaempfer composed his account in manuscript form during his travels, yet it was only published after his death. The manuscript was acquired by Sir Hans Sloane in the 1720s as part of the purchase of Kaempfer's scholarly and literary remains, before being "presented to the public in 1727 in a fairly free translation by the young Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer. The French translation of Scheuchzer's English text appeared two years later and was more widely read on the continent, including in Germany, where French was more readily understood than English at the time. Those who only read German had to make do with the back translation from the French (1749), until in 1777-79 Kaempfer's Westphalian compatriot Christian Wilhelm Dohm. finally published the original in two volumes" (Osterhammel, p. 19). "The eighteenth century's famous and influential travelers and travel writers, from Engelbert Kaempfer and John Chardin to Carsten Niebuhr, Constantin de Volney, and Alexander von Humboldt, were no victims of 'Orientalist' delusion and peddlars of fantasies and lies about the Other. From Western European humanism, they inherited a role model of the 'philosophical traveler' - an ambulatory scholar who, not yet bound by the constraints of strictly defined academic disciplines such as geography or ethnology, contributed to universal knowledge in accordance with the most advanced methodological standards of the day" (ibid., p. 212). Provenance: from the Château Dampierre library of the ducs de Luynes, with a late 19th-century Dampierre bookplate on the front free endpaper verso of volume I. Both title pages also bear the black ink stamp of the Hôtel de Luynes, Paris ("D.L.P."), the family's expansive residence in the capital. The sixth duke steered the Dampierre library through the troubles of the French Revolution, ensuring that it survived intact until its dispersal in 2013. Brunet II, p. 763: Cordier 416; Cox I:333; Garrison-Morton 6374.11; Howgego I K1; Landwehr, VOC 532; Wellcome III 376. See Nissen BBI 1019 note. Jürgen Osterhammel, Unfabling the East: the Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia, 2018. 2 volumes, folio (353 x 230 mm). Late 19th-century quarter calf, red and green labels lettered in gilt, compartments and raised bands tooled in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, edges sprinkled red. With engraved allegorical title to vol. I, 45 engraved plates, maps, and plans (43 folding), including large folding map of Japan, engraved arms on dedication leaf, cul-de-lampes; title pages printed in red and black with vignette engravings. Contemporary inked collation on verso of first publisher's blank in vol. I. Spines a little sunned, a few minor repairs, some browning throughout text as usual, plates presenting well with only one rather heavily browned, occasional tidemarks, a few old tape repairs to closed tears, text unaffected. A very good copy.

First edition in French, 2 vols in one, folio (38.8 x 25.2 cm). Titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes. Engraved frontispiece, one head-piece, 45 engraved plates, plans and maps (mostly double-page or folding). Engraved title margin browned, occasional very minor spotting or browning. Contemporary speckled calf gilt (minor wear to joints and extremities), a very good example. A tall copy of the first edition in French of Kaempfer's history of Japan which was a best-seller from the moment it was published. Born in Westphalia in 1651, Kaempfer traveled throughout the Near and Far East before settling in Japan as physician to the trading settlement of the Dutch East India Company at Nagasaki. During his two years' residence, he made two extensive trips around Japan in 1691 and 1692, collecting, according to the British historian Boxer, 'an astonishing amount of valuable and accurate information'. He also learned all he could from the few Japanese who came to Deshima for instruction in the European sciences. To these observations, Kaempfer added details he had gathered from a wide reading of travelers' accounts and the reports of previous trading delegations. The result was the first scholarly study of Tokugawa Japan in the West, a work that greatly influenced the European view of Japan throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, serving as a reference for a variety of works ranging from encyclopedias to the libretto of The Mikado. Kaempfer's work remains one of the most valuable sources for historians of the Tokugawa period. The narrative describes what no Japanese was permitted to record (the details of the shogun's castle, for example) and what no Japanese thought worthy of recording (the minutiae of everyday life). Brunet III, 638; Cordier (Japonica), 416; Cox I, p. 332-333; DSB VII, 204-5; Jones Checklist, 433; Nordenskiöld 514; Quérard IV, p. 282; Wroth 90 (map).

[4], 3, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of one of the rarest books on Japanese flora. The author Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 - 1716) was a professor from Lemgo, Germany, who joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a medical doctor in 1685. After periods in what are now India and Indonesia he travelled in 1690 to Japan to work as a doctor on Dejima (Deshima), the Dutch trading post or factory in Nagasaki. Sir Hans Sloan acquired his manuscripts, alsong with his drawings and herbarium, and arranged for their translation and publication, the first to appear in translation was The history of Japan in 1727. This English translation established Kaempfer's reputation as the 18th-century authority on Japan and deeply influenced Japan's image in Europe. The renowned botanist and companion of the 1768 Cook expedition Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was responsible for the editing and publication of the present work and dedicated it to the curators of the Library. In most cases no plates had previously been made from these drawings, so they remained unpublished. In the last years of his life Kaempfer himself had published only a small number of his drawings in his Amoenitatum exoticarum, printed in Lemgo in 1712. Thus the present publication introduces many Japanese plants for the first time to a large audience in the West. Kaempfer's herbrarium is now in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.Royal Library duplicate stamp in the foot of title page. With some minor foxing, the last few plates stained only in the lower margin, not affecting the illustrations. Otherwise in very good condition.l Great flower books, p. 62; Henrey 886; Nissen BBI, 1019; Stafleu & Cowan 3484.