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[London 1811, Longman]. New black cloth, very good, pp. 517- 540, translated from the French into English, complete work, extracted article. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE An early account of Korea performed in 1653. In 1653, Hamel and his shipmates were shipwrecked in Corea. After captivity, Hamel lived in Corea for some thirteen years and wrote a most fascinating personal narrative about Corea, the Koreans and the King of Corea. * The work also covering the shipwreck on Quelpaert & travels in Korea, departure from Holland, journey to the capital and other adventures, severe cold, the Dutch in danger, banished from court, their escape to Japan. The King of Korea dies, Gotto Island, sail to Nagasaki, return to Holland. * A superb and very early primary description of the Kingdom of Korea, its situation, and extent with the manners of the inhabitants. The coast, soil, produce, animals, diseases, physicians, great smokers, houses-small & low, recreations and travelling. Their customs and learning, marriages, condition of wives, duty of children, mourning for parents, funerals, inheritance, education of children, language, writing, geography, printing, arithmetic, account of time. Trade, religion, monasteries, temples, married priests, nunneries, military officers. Punishments: beating on the shins, feet, buttocks and calf of the legs, adultery, killing a husband, murder, theft &c. * An excelent primary resource, dependable and substantial for the times, when no other foreigners were in that hitherto closed kingdom. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Helen Jones; KOREA: An annotated Bibliography of Publications in Western Languages, #88, p.21. * BIBLIOGRAPHY E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL * Scans can of this and most items are posted to our website.…

[London 1811, Longmans]. Half black cloth over boards, newly rebacked, pp.517-540, complete in itself, translated from French into English, extracted article, covers rubbed, new endpapers, else very good, 22 x 27.5 cm. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE An early account of Korea performed in 1653. In 1653, Hamel and his shipmates were shipwrecked in Corea. After captivity, Hamel lived in Corea for some thirteen years and wrote a most fascinating personal narrative about Corea, the Koreans and the King of Corea. * The work also covering the shipwreck on Quelpaert & travels in Korea, departure from Holland, journey to the capital and other adventures, severe cold, the Dutch in danger, banished from court, their escape to Japan. The King of Korea dies, Gotto Island, sail to Nagasaki, return to Holland. * A superb and very early primary description of the Kingdom of Korea, its situation, and extent with the manners of the inhabitants. The coast, soil, produce, animals, diseases, physicians, great smokers, houses-small & low, recreations and travelling. Their customs and learning, marriages, condition of wives, duty of children, mourning for parents, funerals, inheritance, education of children, language, writing, geography, printing, arithmetic, account of time. Trade, religion, monasteries, temples, married priests, nunneries, military officers. Punishments: beating on the shins, feet, buttocks and calf of the legs, adultery, killing a husband, murder, theft &c. * An excelent primary resource, dependable and substantial for the times, when no other foreigners were in that hitherto closed kingdom. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Helen Jones; KOREA: An annotated Bibliography of Publications in Western Languages, #88, p.21. * BIBLIOGRAPHY E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL * Scans can of this and most items are posted to our website.…

[London 1811, Longman].New half leather over marbled boards, good, pages 517-540, extracted article, translated from the French into English. EXECPTIONALLY RARE An early account of Korea performed in 1653. In 1653, Hamel and his shipmates were shipwrecked in Corea. After captivity, Hamel lived in Corea for some thirteen years and wrote a most fascinating personal narrative about Corea, the Koreans and the King of Corea. * The work also covering the shipwreck on Quelpaert & travels in Korea, departure from Holland, journey to the capital and other adventures, severe cold, the Dutch in danger, banished from court, their escape to Japan. The King of Korea dies, Gotto Island, sail to Nagasaki, return to Holland. * A superb and very early primary description of the Kingdom of Korea, its situation, and extent with the manners of the inhabitants. The coast, soil, produce, animals, diseases, physicians, great smokers, houses-small & low, recreations and travelling. Their customs and learning, marriages, condition of wives, duty of children, mourning for parents, funerals, inheritance, education of children, language, writing, geography, printing, arithmetic, account of time. Trade, religion, monasteries, temples, married priests, nunneries, military officers. Punishments: beating on the shins, feet, buttocks and calf of the legs, adultery, killing a husband, murder, theft &c. * An excelent primary resource, dependable and substantial for the times, when no other foreigners were in that hitherto closed kingdom. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Helen Jones; KOREA: An annotated Bibliography of Publications in Western Languages, #88, p.21. * BIBLIOGRAPHY E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL * Scans can of this and most items are posted to our website.…