The first Japanese embassy to Europe 1586
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38000 SEK
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40 000-50 000 SEK
Description
THE FIRST JAPANESE EMBASSY TO EUROPE. GUALTIERI, GUIDO. Relationi della Venuta de gli ambasciatori Giaponesi a Roma, sino alla partita di Lisbona. Con Una descrittione del lor paese, e costumi, e con le Accoglienze fatte loro da tutti i Prencipi Christiani, per dove sono passati. Roma (per Francesco Zannetti) 1586.
Small 8:o (about 157x100 mm.). (4), 5-8, (4, last blank), 1.191, (1) pp. Title with woodcut printer´s device.
New gilt soft vellum, blank spine, speckled edges. Title mended in inner margin. Pages 9-10 mended in upper outer corner, pp. 31-46 small wormholes in upper margin, pp. 129-130 mended in upper margin, a few pages with some marginal dampstaining, minor foxing.
Cordier, Japonica pp. 98-99. A Venetian edition was printed the same year by Giolito. This is the rare first edition.
The book describes the first Japanese embassy to Europe in 1582-1590. It also describes the customs of the Japanese, and Japan.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6043
Date:
2016-06-21