ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPAN: Consisting Of Private Memoirs And Anecdotes Of The Reign

TITSINGH, M. Isaac.

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London 1822, Ackermann. Red original cloth, very good,small folio, gold stamped, 325p., 25 aquatint illustrations on 13 hand colored copper etched plates, many color foldouts, 25 x 32.3 cm. THE FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Q U I T E R A R E . *** *** *** . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . * SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined, Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese, Remarks on their Poetry, an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time, Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder, the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee [Confucius] on Filial Piety, &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . *** THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates, showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which, at that time, was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court [a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long !], marriages, funerals, law, poetry, chronology, furniture, earthquakes &c. . *** TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan, based on his personal observations, which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . *** By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . *** DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company, and was stationed in at Deshima, a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather, gold-stamped rule lines, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers, firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding, about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece, and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name, in the right margin, partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" [For R. Ackerman]." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details, see spine.jpg, and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright, clean, no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . * COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original [1822] red blind-stamped cloth, with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design, reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes, looks like the publisher didn t know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed, and the corners are bent, rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writ. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 84308102

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