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OGILBY, John (1600-1676), translator and Arnoldus MONTANUS, (ca 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.
2o (411 x 270 mm). Engraved frontispiece title, letterpress title in red and black, engraved folding map, 24 engraved double-page or folding plates, 70 engraved illustrations in the text. (Occasional faint offsetting to text, 2Z3 with tiny rust hole affecting image.) Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance: JACOBUS GIBBS, (1682-1754), architect, his commissions include the Radcliffe Library in Oxford, (engraved bookplate with his portrait by Bernard Baron, dated 1736); given after his death to the Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Camera where most of his library still remains (bookplate and deaccession stamp).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Ogilby's 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 compelation 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 4, 1719; Wing M-2485.
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Ogilby's 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 compelation 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 4, 1719; Wing M-2485.