JAPAN -

Das Kaiserreich Japan, nach den besten vorhandenen Quellen geschildert von einem Vereine Gelehrter. Mit 24 Stahlstichen, einem gestochenen Titel und einer Karte.

Karlsruhe, Kunstverlag, 1860. Lex8vo. Orig. printed boards, uncut. A few scratches on covers and corners, backstrip with wear. Having the title-p.: "Die Ausser-Europäische Welt...2.Bd." and the separate title "Japan". (4),III,355 pp. and 40 pp. (Das Neueste aus der Länder=und Völkerkunde) and 25 plates mostlyof Japanese views (1 engr. frontisp., 6 tinted lithographed plates, 18 steelengraved views and 1 folded lithographed map, all). Light scattered brownspots and stains.

First edition of one of the earliest Western descriptions of Japan after the reopening of the country in 1854 to foreigners.

Order-nr.: 28541