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POMPE van MEERDERVOORT, Johannes Lydius Catharinus

Vijf jaren in Japan (1857-1863) Bijdragen tot de kennis van het Japansche keizerrijk en zijne bevolking
Leiden
Van den Heuvel & Van Santen
1867 - 1868
€1.600 - €2.200

"2 volumes in-8vo, XII,335; VI,357 pp. With folding map of Japan (with tear), 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces depicting views of Nagasaki, 2 plates from drawings and 10 finely hand-coloured costume plates. First edition. Age-browned, otherwise fine. Contemporary half morocco, spines lettered in gilt (spines rubbed)"

"In 1856 Jhr J.L.J. Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829-1908) joined the second Naval Detachment. He held three different functions in Japan, he was surgeon of the Royal Netherlands Navy, government-surgeon in Japan and official for scientific research. His activities in the medical field involved both European and Japanese patients. Also including the complete texts of the various treaties concluded by Japan after Perry's expedition with the United States in March 1854 with England and the Netherlands. Very interesting description of Japan during the years the country was slowly opening up to the West for the first time. - With large stamp with Japanese characters on title-pages of the prison library Saibai kigyodan in Indonesia. Ref. Tiele 873; Cat. NHSM I, p.237; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 395; Cordier, Japonica, col. 588; Lipperheide I, p.369"

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