787 - Asia - Japan - Kaempfer, Engelbert. *Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'Empire du Japon*. Translated into French from the English version by Jean-Caspar Scheuchzer. 2 volumes. With an engraved title page, 2 engraved title vignettes, 1 engraved header vignette, and 45 copper plates, most of which are double-page or folded. The Hague, P. Gosse and J. Neaulme, 1729. 4 leaves, LII, 217 pp.; 2 leaves, 313 (recte 323 pp.), 96 pp. 36 x 24 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with 2 spine labels and rich spine gilding (spine restored; leather on the joints worn and partly brittle).

Asia - Japan - Kaempfer, Engelbert. *Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'Empire du Japon*. Translated into French from the English version by Jean-Caspar Scheuchzer. 2 volumes. With an engraved title page, 2 engraved title vignettes, 1 engraved header vignette, and 45 copper plates, most of which are double-page or folded. The Hague, P. Gosse and J. Neaulme, 1729. 4 leaves, LII, 217 pp.; 2 leaves, 313 (recte 323 pp.), 96 pp. 36 x 24 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with 2 spine labels and rich spine gilding (spine restored; leather on the joints worn and partly brittle). First French edition. - Cordier, BJ 416 - Streit VI, 1430 - Laures 596. - A classic work on Japan. The original German text was not published until 50 years later. - All plates bound at the beginning of Volume 1. - Both volumes bear the bookplate of the French jurist Georges H. Bousquet (1845–1937) on the verso of the endpaper; he came to Japan in 1872 as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Justice and later also taught at the law school. - A later bookplate on the inside cover. - Slightly browned at the edges, with brown spots in places; pp. 17–70 of the appendix in Volume 2 have a small corner loss at the bottom. *