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979 - KAEMPFER, Engelbert Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon : composée en allemand [...] et traduite en françois sur la version angloise de Jean-Gaspar Scheuchzer [...]. Ouvrage enrichi de quantité de figures dessinées d'après le naturel par l'auteur même. Amsterdam P. Gosse & J. Neaulme 1729 2 vol., folio: [10 incl. front.]-lii-217, [4]-313-73-73/96 pp.; 43 (of 45) pl. (missing pl. 24 and 42, hole in fold of map). Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (joints sl. rubbed, boards sl. scratched). Rare first edition of the French translation by François Naudé (The Hague, 1729) of "The history of Japan" (London, 1727-1728) by the German cartographer, orientalist and traveller E. Kaempfer (1651-1716), physician aboard a ship of the Dutch East India Company. Kaempfer landed in Japan in 1690 and stayed for two years after having received permission from the emperor to travel across the country. The result is a most accurate account of 17th-c. Japan ill. with an allegorical front. and 43 fold. maps and plans (num. I-XLV) including a map of the Empire of Japan, 4 town plans of Juthia (capital of Siam, now Ayutthaya in Thailand), Nagasaki, Piyako and Jedo (now Tokyo), 1 map of the Menam river (Thailand), and 4 road maps of itineraries from Nagasaki to Osaka and Tokyo. Ref. Chadenat 1884. - Cordier, Japonica, 416-417. - STCN. - Cp. Cox I:332. Prov. Théodore de Valenzi (bookpl.).
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KAEMPFER, Engelbert Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon : composée en allemand [...] et traduite en françois sur la version angloise de Jean-Gaspar Scheuchzer [...]. Ouvrage enrichi de quantité de figures dessinées d'après le naturel par l'auteur même. Amsterdam P. Gosse & J. Neaulme 1729 2 vol., folio: [10 incl. front.]-lii-217, [4]-313-73-73/96 pp.; 43 (of 45) pl. (missing pl. 24 and 42, hole in fold of map). Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (joints sl. rubbed, boards sl. scratched). Rare first edition of the French translation by François Naudé (The Hague, 1729) of "The history of Japan" (London, 1727-1728) by the German cartographer, orientalist and traveller E. Kaempfer (1651-1716), physician aboard a ship of the Dutch East India Company. Kaempfer landed in Japan in 1690 and stayed for two years after having received permission from the emperor to travel across the country. The result is a most accurate account of 17th-c. Japan ill. with an allegorical front. and 43 fold. maps and plans (num. I-XLV) including a map of the Empire of Japan, 4 town plans of Juthia (capital of Siam, now Ayutthaya in Thailand), Nagasaki, Piyako and Jedo (now Tokyo), 1 map of the Menam river (Thailand), and 4 road maps of itineraries from Nagasaki to Osaka and Tokyo. Ref. Chadenat 1884. - Cordier, Japonica, 416-417. - STCN. - Cp. Cox I:332. Prov. Théodore de Valenzi (bookpl.).
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