Item #152533 A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THE MIGHTY KINGDOMS OF JAPAN & SIAM. Francois Caron, Joost Schouten.
A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THE MIGHTY KINGDOMS OF JAPAN & SIAM.

A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THE MIGHTY KINGDOMS OF JAPAN & SIAM.

Reprinted form the English edition of 1663 with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by C. R. Boxer. Pp. cxxx+198 (last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 11 plates, title page vignette, full page facsimile, 7 maps (one folding, 3 full page), notes, appendices, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; qr. vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, red buckram with small shield device in blue, silver & gilt on upper board, cloth a trifle scuffed, with 3 tiny marks to upper board, bottom fore-corners bumped; uncut and mostly unopened; ribbon marker; the free endpapers slightly offset, corners of a few leaves slightly creased, a little light foxing; The Argonaut Press, London, 1935. Edition limited to 475 numbered copies on Japon vellum, this copy out of series (not numbered).. Item #152533

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