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PERSIA AND ASIA - JAPAN. KAEMPFER (KÄMPFER), ENGELBERT. Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes & descriptiones rerum Persicarum & ulterioris Asiae,... Lemgoviae (typis & impensis Henrici Wilhelmi Meyeri) 1712.

Small 4:o (220x176 mm.). (18), (2), 3-912, (32) pp. Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black (lacking dedication leaf with portrait, frontispiece and title burnt in upper outer corner, wear to outer margin and close cut in upper margin, as well as the first 10 leaves after title burntin upper outer corner, worn outer margin), 16 folding engraved plates, engravings in text, of which 56 full page, also woodcuts in text, of which 8 full page.
Contemporary vellum, soiled, somewhat spotted, lacks spine title, new inner doublure to upper cover, lacks first endpaper. Some minor marginal foxing or spotting.

First edition. Nissen BBI 1018, Pritzel 4564.
With observations on Persia and adjacent countries, about japanese paper-making and Japan, a catalogue of Japanese plants, some notes on tea, etc. Plates after Kaempfer with views, animals, plants, etc.

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

Auktionsnummer:

6164

Datum:

2016-12-20