KAEMPFER Engelbert.
Histoire naturelle, civile et ecclésiastique de l'Empire du Japon : Composée en Allemand par Engelbert Kaempfer et traduite en François sur la Version Angloise par Jean-Gaspar Scheuchzer.
A La Haye, chez P. Gosse et Jean Neaulme, 1729, 2 volumes in-4 bound in full contemporary basane, spine ribbed, double title-piece, 3 missing headpieces, one bit cracked.
Illustrated with 45 plates, most of them double and/or folding, engraved in etching. Without the frontispiece. Very fresh interior.
Provenance: La Ménardière Library (heraldic ex-libris).
French first edition of a trip made in 1673.
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