SALMON, Th.

Contemporary history or present state of all peoples I. II. part Amsterdam I. Tirion 1736 - 39 Part I.: Containing the Present State of the Imperial Republics of China and Japan, and also of the Ladrones, Philippine and Moluccan Islands, and of Makassar. Contains plates of i.a. Asian flora and fauna and the Dutch settlement at Deshima. Part II: Sundasche Islands, and more particularly Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the Kingdoms of Siam, Kochin-China and Tonkin (second edition) Ex libris Buijnsters-Smets. Ref. Cordier Sinica, 44; Lust 454 (edition of 1729); Cordier Japonica 431; Tiele 1033 2 vols. in-8vo, [18], 645, [17] pp; [12], 676, [112] pp. With 2 engraved titles, 5 folding maps and 16 (folding) plates. Rewritten and enlarged by Dr. Matthias van Goch, based his work on information given by Gerrit Voogt (second in command in Dejima from 1706 to 1714), by the physician Willem ten Rhijne, and others. Slightly foxed. Contemp. bindings in half calf, untrimmed, spine of the first volume richly gilt, library stamp on lower edge of vol. 1