429 - Japan.- Assendelft de Coningh (C.T. van) Mijn Verblijf in Japan, first edition, lithograph title with light water-stain to lower margin, C.C. Krieger bookplate, modern cloth-backed boards, cloth nicked at foot of lower joint, [Cordier, Japonica 522], 8vo, Amsterdam, 1856.

Japan.- Assendelft de Coningh (C.T. van) Mijn Verblijf in Japan, first edition, lithograph title with light water-stain to lower margin, C.C. Krieger bookplate, modern cloth-backed boards, cloth nicked at foot of lower joint, [Cordier, Japonica 522], 8vo, Amsterdam, 1856. *** Very rare. Library Hub records only 1 copy, held by the British Library. Cornelis Theodoor van Assendelft de Coningh (1824-1890) had been in Japan in 1845 while serving as a junior officer on board a ship of the Dutch East India Company. Although on that occasion scarcely even setting foot on shore, he nevertheless seems to have gained a most favourable impression of the land. It was thus he writes with great pleasure that in May of 1851, now captain of the Joän and based in Surabaya, he received orders from the Dutch government to sail once more for Japan. He arrived in Nagasaki in August and stayed for three months, during which time he not only made the notes which form the basis of the present work, but did a small amount of research into records concerning the strange and elusive figure of Count Benyowsky.