Montanus, Arnoldus (?1625-1683).

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 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

folio (418 x 270mm.), [4], 488, [2 (recto with directions to the binder, verso blank)] pp., title printed in red and black, illustration: engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding map, 24 double-page engraved plans and views, some folding, 69 illustrations in the text, binding: contemporary panelled calf gilt, some light browning or spotting, frontispiece cut to plate mark and mounted, spine slightly worn, corners rather rubbed

Provenance

Thomas Curtis, early ink signature on engraved title

Literature

Wing M2485; Cordier, Japonica 384

Catalogue Note

first edition in english, 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.