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MONTANUS, Arnoldus. Atlas Japannensis being remarkable addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Emperor of Japan, translated by John Ogilby, London: for the author, 1670. 2, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, folding map and 24 double-page engraved plates, some folding (some clean tears to plates, a few long, edges frayed, one loose, light marginal worming towards the end, some staining and browning throughout), 19th-century calf (upper cover detached, worn and marked), endpapers torn.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. "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 and numerous works on travel in the orient during the 17th-century" (Cox). Cox I, 325-6; Wing M-2485.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. "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 and numerous works on travel in the orient during the 17th-century" (Cox). Cox I, 325-6; Wing M-2485.