- 66
Montanus, Arnoldus.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- 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: Tho. Johnson for the author, 1670
first edition in english, folio (418 x 257mm.), engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 24 double-page engraved plans and views, some folding, 69 illustrations in the text, plate list at end, contemporary panelled calf gilt (see footnote), lacking the map, binding rubbed
Literature
Wing M2485
Catalogue Note
Translated from Montanus's edition of 1669, Ogilby's Atlas Japannensis is "a 'large account' of the wealth and wonders of Japan, the latest and fullest to be made of that island, 'reaching within three years of this our present Publication'" (van Erde, p.101). it remains one of the most important works on japan published in the seventeenth century, and includes fine town views of Edo (Tokyo), Osaka and the Dutch trading settlement Deshima. This volume is uniformly bound with lots 65 and 67.