1727, ISBN: a3fdde977d16cf517bdea69ddd946f34

[SC: 24.51], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.… More...

[SC: 24.51], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.[12], lii, 391, [5], with additional engraved title-page in Latin, and 20 copper-engraved plates (numbered IXX, bound at end, of which 15 double-page or folding, including several maps), II:pp.[4], 393612, 75, [5], [6 (index)], with 25 plates (numbered XXIXLV, bound at end, of which 23 double-page or folding, including maps); titles printed in red and black; some creasing and browning to pl.VIII, occasional light marks; a very good, clean, uncut set in contemporary marbled half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco lettering-pieces; some splitting to joints and wear to edges; a few contemporary manuscript additions in English to the index.First edition, first issue, of the German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer's monumental History of Japan, translated from an unpublished manuscript in Sir Hans Sloane's library by his librarian, the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, and illustrated with splendid plates from Kaempfer's unfinished originals. Engelbert Kaempfer (16511716), a trained physician from Lippe with an incorrigible Wanderlust, sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) via Siam (Thailand) as a physician with the Dutch East India Company and reached Japan in late 1690. Although much of his two-year sojourn was spent on the island of Deshima, to which the Dutch merchants were confined by the strict orders of the Tokugawa regime, he was twice able to accompany the annual Dutch embassy from Nagasaki to the Shogun's court at Edo (Tokyo). After Kaempfer's death in 1716 Sir Hans Sloane purchased his botanical collections and library, including the unpublished manuscript of the History of Japan, which was translated into English by the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer (16841738), then Sloane's librarian, and published under the aegis of the Royal Society with Sloane's imprimatur (27 April 1727) as President (see Henrey II, pp.1801). Scheuchzer, in his preface, writes that his translation was produced 'upon [Sloane's] intimation, which deservedly hath with me the weight of a command, that I undertook to translate it, a Gentleman of better abilities, who intended to do it, having been called abroad he was pleased not only to grant me the use of his Library, which I may venture to call the completest in its kind in Europe, but likewise to give me leave to copy out of his invaluable treasures of curiosities in nature and art, what would serve to illustrate and embellish it' (p. xvii). The majority of the forty-five plates which offer a rich array of maps and plans, flora and fauna, views of settlements and structures, images of boats, instruments, and processions, reproductions of Japanese script, and an anatomical diagram for acupuncture were designed by Scheuchzer from Kaempfer's unfinished originals or from prints in Sloane's collection. The English edition of Kaempfer's History is therefore its first appearance in print in any language. This is the original issue, the book being re-issued the following year with a new title-page dated 1728 and a Second Appendix concerning the unsuccessful attempt of the English to re-open direct trade with Japan in 1673. Unsurprisingly, Sloane is named as one of the book's subscribers, alongside a range of notable naturalists and physicians, such as Richard Hale and John Woodward, and the radical deist philosopher (and committed book-collector) Anthony Collins. The History of Japan was 'for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy' (DSB). Cordier, Japonica 4134; Landwehr, VOC 530. Language: English<

1727, ISBN: a3fdde977d16cf517bdea69ddd946f34

[SC: 25.37], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.… More...

[SC: 25.37], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.[12], lii, 391, [5], with additional engraved title-page in Latin, and 20 copper-engraved plates (numbered IXX, bound at end, of which 15 double-page or folding, including several maps), II:pp.[4], 393612, 75, [5], [6 (index)], with 25 plates (numbered XXIXLV, bound at end, of which 23 double-page or folding, including maps); titles printed in red and black; some creasing and browning to pl.VIII, occasional light marks; a very good, clean, uncut set in contemporary marbled half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco lettering-pieces; some splitting to joints and wear to edges; a few contemporary manuscript additions in English to the index.First edition, first issue, of the German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer's monumental History of Japan, translated from an unpublished manuscript in Sir Hans Sloane's library by his librarian, the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, and illustrated with splendid plates from Kaempfer's unfinished originals. Engelbert Kaempfer (16511716), a trained physician from Lippe with an incorrigible Wanderlust, sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) via Siam (Thailand) as a physician with the Dutch East India Company and reached Japan in late 1690. Although much of his two-year sojourn was spent on the island of Deshima, to which the Dutch merchants were confined by the strict orders of the Tokugawa regime, he was twice able to accompany the annual Dutch embassy from Nagasaki to the Shogun's court at Edo (Tokyo). After Kaempfer's death in 1716 Sir Hans Sloane purchased his botanical collections and library, including the unpublished manuscript of the History of Japan, which was translated into English by the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer (16841738), then Sloane's librarian, and published under the aegis of the Royal Society with Sloane's imprimatur (27 April 1727) as President (see Henrey II, pp.1801). Scheuchzer, in his preface, writes that his translation was produced 'upon [Sloane's] intimation, which deservedly hath with me the weight of a command, that I undertook to translate it, a Gentleman of better abilities, who intended to do it, having been called abroad he was pleased not only to grant me the use of his Library, which I may venture to call the completest in its kind in Europe, but likewise to give me leave to copy out of his invaluable treasures of curiosities in nature and art, what would serve to illustrate and embellish it' (p. xvii). The majority of the forty-five plates which offer a rich array of maps and plans, flora and fauna, views of settlements and structures, images of boats, instruments, and processions, reproductions of Japanese script, and an anatomical diagram for acupuncture were designed by Scheuchzer from Kaempfer's unfinished originals or from prints in Sloane's collection. The English edition of Kaempfer's History is therefore its first appearance in print in any language. This is the original issue, the book being re-issued the following year with a new title-page dated 1728 and a Second Appendix concerning the unsuccessful attempt of the English to re-open direct trade with Japan in 1673. Unsurprisingly, Sloane is named as one of the book's subscribers, alongside a range of notable naturalists and physicians, such as Richard Hale and John Woodward, and the radical deist philosopher (and committed book-collector) Anthony Collins. The History of Japan was 'for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy' (DSB). Cordier, Japonica 4134; Landwehr, VOC 530. Language: English<

1727, ISBN: a3fdde977d16cf517bdea69ddd946f34

[SC: 25.22], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.… More...

[SC: 25.22], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.[12], lii, 391, [5], with additional engraved title-page in Latin, and 20 copper-engraved plates (numbered IXX, bound at end, of which 15 double-page or folding, including several maps), II:pp.[4], 393612, 75, [5], [6 (index)], with 25 plates (numbered XXIXLV, bound at end, of which 23 double-page or folding, including maps); titles printed in red and black; some creasing and browning to pl.VIII, occasional light marks; a very good, clean, uncut set in contemporary marbled half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco lettering-pieces; some splitting to joints and wear to edges; a few contemporary manuscript additions in English to the index.First edition, first issue, of the German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer's monumental History of Japan, translated from an unpublished manuscript in Sir Hans Sloane's library by his librarian, the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, and illustrated with splendid plates from Kaempfer's unfinished originals. Engelbert Kaempfer (16511716), a trained physician from Lippe with an incorrigible Wanderlust, sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) via Siam (Thailand) as a physician with the Dutch East India Company and reached Japan in late 1690. Although much of his two-year sojourn was spent on the island of Deshima, to which the Dutch merchants were confined by the strict orders of the Tokugawa regime, he was twice able to accompany the annual Dutch embassy from Nagasaki to the Shogun's court at Edo (Tokyo). After Kaempfer's death in 1716 Sir Hans Sloane purchased his botanical collections and library, including the unpublished manuscript of the History of Japan, which was translated into English by the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer (16841738), then Sloane's librarian, and published under the aegis of the Royal Society with Sloane's imprimatur (27 April 1727) as President (see Henrey II, pp.1801). Scheuchzer, in his preface, writes that his translation was produced 'upon [Sloane's] intimation, which deservedly hath with me the weight of a command, that I undertook to translate it, a Gentleman of better abilities, who intended to do it, having been called abroad he was pleased not only to grant me the use of his Library, which I may venture to call the completest in its kind in Europe, but likewise to give me leave to copy out of his invaluable treasures of curiosities in nature and art, what would serve to illustrate and embellish it' (p. xvii). The majority of the forty-five plates which offer a rich array of maps and plans, flora and fauna, views of settlements and structures, images of boats, instruments, and processions, reproductions of Japanese script, and an anatomical diagram for acupuncture were designed by Scheuchzer from Kaempfer's unfinished originals or from prints in Sloane's collection. The English edition of Kaempfer's History is therefore its first appearance in print in any language. This is the original issue, the book being re-issued the following year with a new title-page dated 1728 and a Second Appendix concerning the unsuccessful attempt of the English to re-open direct trade with Japan in 1673. Unsurprisingly, Sloane is named as one of the book's subscribers, alongside a range of notable naturalists and physicians, such as Richard Hale and John Woodward, and the radical deist philosopher (and committed book-collector) Anthony Collins. The History of Japan was 'for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy' (DSB). Cordier, Japonica 4134; Landwehr, VOC 530. Language: English<

1727, ISBN: a3fdde977d16cf517bdea69ddd946f34

[SC: 24.87], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.… More...

[SC: 24.87], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.[12], lii, 391, [5], with additional engraved title-page in Latin, and 20 copper-engraved plates (numbered IXX, bound at end, of which 15 double-page or folding, including several maps), II:pp.[4], 393612, 75, [5], [6 (index)], with 25 plates (numbered XXIXLV, bound at end, of which 23 double-page or folding, including maps); titles printed in red and black; some creasing and browning to pl.VIII, occasional light marks; a very good, clean, uncut set in contemporary marbled half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco lettering-pieces; some splitting to joints and wear to edges; a few contemporary manuscript additions in English to the index.First edition, first issue, of the German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer's monumental History of Japan, translated from an unpublished manuscript in Sir Hans Sloane's library by his librarian, the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, and illustrated with splendid plates from Kaempfer's unfinished originals. Engelbert Kaempfer (16511716), a trained physician from Lippe with an incorrigible Wanderlust, sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) via Siam (Thailand) as a physician with the Dutch East India Company and reached Japan in late 1690. Although much of his two-year sojourn was spent on the island of Deshima, to which the Dutch merchants were confined by the strict orders of the Tokugawa regime, he was twice able to accompany the annual Dutch embassy from Nagasaki to the Shogun's court at Edo (Tokyo). After Kaempfer's death in 1716 Sir Hans Sloane purchased his botanical collections and library, including the unpublished manuscript of the History of Japan, which was translated into English by the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer (16841738), then Sloane's librarian, and published under the aegis of the Royal Society with Sloane's imprimatur (27 April 1727) as President (see Henrey II, pp.1801). Scheuchzer, in his preface, writes that his translation was produced 'upon [Sloane's] intimation, which deservedly hath with me the weight of a command, that I undertook to translate it, a Gentleman of better abilities, who intended to do it, having been called abroad he was pleased not only to grant me the use of his Library, which I may venture to call the completest in its kind in Europe, but likewise to give me leave to copy out of his invaluable treasures of curiosities in nature and art, what would serve to illustrate and embellish it' (p. xvii). The majority of the forty-five plates which offer a rich array of maps and plans, flora and fauna, views of settlements and structures, images of boats, instruments, and processions, reproductions of Japanese script, and an anatomical diagram for acupuncture were designed by Scheuchzer from Kaempfer's unfinished originals or from prints in Sloane's collection. The English edition of Kaempfer's History is therefore its first appearance in print in any language. This is the original issue, the book being re-issued the following year with a new title-page dated 1728 and a Second Appendix concerning the unsuccessful attempt of the English to re-open direct trade with Japan in 1673. Unsurprisingly, Sloane is named as one of the book's subscribers, alongside a range of notable naturalists and physicians, such as Richard Hale and John Woodward, and the radical deist philosopher (and committed book-collector) Anthony Collins. The History of Japan was 'for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy' (DSB). Cordier, Japonica 4134; Landwehr, VOC 530. Language: English<

1727, ISBN: a3fdde977d16cf517bdea69ddd946f34

[SC: 25.23], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.… More...

[SC: 25.23], [PU: London, for the translator, 1727.], TRAVELS DISCOVERY VOYAGES EXPLORATION ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT ATLASES MAPS CHARTS FAR EAST GIFT IDEAS NOISBN, Two volumes, folio, I: pp.[12], lii, 391, [5], with additional engraved title-page in Latin, and 20 copper-engraved plates (numbered IXX, bound at end, of which 15 double-page or folding, including several maps), II:pp.[4], 393612, 75, [5], [6 (index)], with 25 plates (numbered XXIXLV, bound at end, of which 23 double-page or folding, including maps); titles printed in red and black; some creasing and browning to pl.VIII, occasional light marks; a very good, clean, uncut set in contemporary marbled half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco lettering-pieces; some splitting to joints and wear to edges; a few contemporary manuscript additions in English to the index.First edition, first issue, of the German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer's monumental History of Japan, translated from an unpublished manuscript in Sir Hans Sloane's library by his librarian, the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, and illustrated with splendid plates from Kaempfer's unfinished originals. Engelbert Kaempfer (16511716), a trained physician from Lippe with an incorrigible Wanderlust, sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) via Siam (Thailand) as a physician with the Dutch East India Company and reached Japan in late 1690. Although much of his two-year sojourn was spent on the island of Deshima, to which the Dutch merchants were confined by the strict orders of the Tokugawa regime, he was twice able to accompany the annual Dutch embassy from Nagasaki to the Shogun's court at Edo (Tokyo). After Kaempfer's death in 1716 Sir Hans Sloane purchased his botanical collections and library, including the unpublished manuscript of the History of Japan, which was translated into English by the Swiss naturalist Johann Caspar Scheuchzer (16841738), then Sloane's librarian, and published under the aegis of the Royal Society with Sloane's imprimatur (27 April 1727) as President (see Henrey II, pp.1801). Scheuchzer, in his preface, writes that his translation was produced 'upon [Sloane's] intimation, which deservedly hath with me the weight of a command, that I undertook to translate it, a Gentleman of better abilities, who intended to do it, having been called abroad he was pleased not only to grant me the use of his Library, which I may venture to call the completest in its kind in Europe, but likewise to give me leave to copy out of his invaluable treasures of curiosities in nature and art, what would serve to illustrate and embellish it' (p. xvii). The majority of the forty-five plates which offer a rich array of maps and plans, flora and fauna, views of settlements and structures, images of boats, instruments, and processions, reproductions of Japanese script, and an anatomical diagram for acupuncture were designed by Scheuchzer from Kaempfer's unfinished originals or from prints in Sloane's collection. The English edition of Kaempfer's History is therefore its first appearance in print in any language. This is the original issue, the book being re-issued the following year with a new title-page dated 1728 and a Second Appendix concerning the unsuccessful attempt of the English to re-open direct trade with Japan in 1673. Unsurprisingly, Sloane is named as one of the book's subscribers, alongside a range of notable naturalists and physicians, such as Richard Hale and John Woodward, and the radical deist philosopher (and committed book-collector) Anthony Collins. The History of Japan was 'for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy' (DSB). Cordier, Japonica 4134; Landwehr, VOC 530. Language: English<