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MONTANUS, Arnoldus (c.1625-1683). Atlas Japannensis: being Remarkable Addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan... English'd... By John Ogilby. London: Thomas Johnson for the author, 1670.
2° (418 x 270 mm). Directions to the binder leaf bound at end. Letterpress title in red and black, engraved frontispiece title, folding map and 24 double-page plans or view (some folding), 69 engraved illustrations in the text. (Frontispiece title cut down to plate mark and mounted, occasional light browning and spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, panelled in gilt (recently rebacked preserving portions of original spine, the whole refurbished and corners strengthened). Provenance: Thomas Curtis (early ink inscription on engraved title) -- Earls of Macclesfield (engraved armorial 'North Library' bookplate and small armorial blindstamps, sold at:) -- Sotheby's 15 March 2007, lot 3219).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of John Ogilby's (1600-1676) translation of Montanus's Gedenwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maetschappy in't Vereenigde Nederland aen de Kaisaren van Japan published a year earlier in Amsterdam. It is a rich compilation of descriptions of emissaries of the Dutch East India Company and their encounters with natives and Portuguese, devoted strictly to Japan, its land and its people. 'Exceedingly rare. The plates to this work represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century. Apart from these, this book remains one of the most curious of the numerous works of travel in the Orient during the 17th century' (Cox I, 325). Cordier Japonica 384; Lowndes IV, 1719; Wing M-2485.
2° (418 x 270 mm). Directions to the binder leaf bound at end. Letterpress title in red and black, engraved frontispiece title, folding map and 24 double-page plans or view (some folding), 69 engraved illustrations in the text. (Frontispiece title cut down to plate mark and mounted, occasional light browning and spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, panelled in gilt (recently rebacked preserving portions of original spine, the whole refurbished and corners strengthened). Provenance: Thomas Curtis (early ink inscription on engraved title) -- Earls of Macclesfield (engraved armorial 'North Library' bookplate and small armorial blindstamps, sold at:) -- Sotheby's 15 March 2007, lot 3219).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of John Ogilby's (1600-1676) translation of Montanus's Gedenwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maetschappy in't Vereenigde Nederland aen de Kaisaren van Japan published a year earlier in Amsterdam. It is a rich compilation of descriptions of emissaries of the Dutch East India Company and their encounters with natives and Portuguese, devoted strictly to Japan, its land and its people. 'Exceedingly rare. The plates to this work represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century. Apart from these, this book remains one of the most curious of the numerous works of travel in the Orient during the 17th century' (Cox I, 325). Cordier Japonica 384; Lowndes IV, 1719; Wing M-2485.
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