KAEMPFER, Engelbert. De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een Verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen Staat en Regeering an dat Ryk, van deszelfs Tempels, Paleysen, Kasteelen en andere gebouwebn; van deszelfs Metalen, Mineralen, Boomen, Planten, Dieren, Vogelen en Visschen..., Amsterdam: Arent van Huyssteen, 1733. Small 2 (316 x 206mm.), half title, title printed in red and black, 11 double-page folding engraved maps and 37 plates, all but one double-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, printed in double columns, list of illustrations in manuscript at end (lacking the frontispiece, one map detached, very few occasional spots or very light marginal thumb-soiling), contemporary blind-stamped vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly rubbed).

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KAEMPFER, Engelbert. De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een Verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen Staat en Regeering an dat Ryk, van deszelfs Tempels, Paleysen, Kasteelen en andere gebouwebn; van deszelfs Metalen, Mineralen, Boomen, Planten, Dieren, Vogelen en Visschen..., Amsterdam: Arent van Huyssteen, 1733. Small 2 (316 x 206mm.), half title, title printed in red and black, 11 double-page folding engraved maps and 37 plates, all but one double-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, printed in double columns, list of illustrations in manuscript at end (lacking the frontispiece, one map detached, very few occasional spots or very light marginal thumb-soiling), contemporary blind-stamped vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly rubbed).

A GOOD AND CLEAN COPY of this Dutch edition of The History of Japan.

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