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ARNOLDUS MONTANUS (c.1625-1683) AND JOHN OGILBY (1600-1676), translator
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° (405 x 264mm). Engraved frontispiece title, letterpress title in red and black, folding engraved map, 24 double-page or folding engraved plates, 70 engraved illustrations in the text. (Occasional faint dampstain, one plate with marginal tear.) 19th-century half morocco, spine gilt, edges marbled (some wear and dampstaining), modern morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit, bookplate.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. THE HORBLIT COPY. Cox I, 325-6: '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'; Cordier Japonica 384; Lowndes 4, 1719; Wing M-2485.
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° (405 x 264mm). Engraved frontispiece title, letterpress title in red and black, folding engraved map, 24 double-page or folding engraved plates, 70 engraved illustrations in the text. (Occasional faint dampstain, one plate with marginal tear.) 19th-century half morocco, spine gilt, edges marbled (some wear and dampstaining), modern morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit, bookplate.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. THE HORBLIT COPY. Cox I, 325-6: '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'; Cordier Japonica 384; Lowndes 4, 1719; Wing M-2485.
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