Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.1)
Other titles: Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan; Histoire du Japon
Classmark: Anglo-French 1 1729 KAE
Creator(s): Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716)
Additional creator(s): Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729) (Other); Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716) (Other); Delboe, Simon (Other); Gibben, Hamond (Other); Ramsden, William (Other); Naudé, Fran̨cois (Other); Néaulme, Jean (1694-1780) (Other); Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745) (Other)
Publisher: P. Gosse, & J. Neaulme
Publication city: A La Haye
Date(s): 1729
Language: French
Size and medium: 2 volumes (8 unnumbered pages, lii, 217 pages, 1 unnumbered page, XLV leaves of plates (some folded); 4 unnumbered pages, 313, 96, that is, 98 pages)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/219367
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011550009705181
Description
The "Appendice ou supplement de L'Histoire du Japon" (v. 2, p. [1]-73 (3rd group)) is a translation of 6 sections from the author's Amoenitates exoticae (Lemgo, 1712) relating to Japanese matters, including tea, paper manufacture, moxa, acupuncture and ambergris.
"Appendice second de L'Histoire du Japon du docteur Engelbert Kæmpfer, faisant partie d'un journal authentique du voyage que les anglois firent au Japon en l'an 1673" (v. 2, p. 73-86 (3rd group)). Signed at end: Simon Delboe, Hamond Gibben, Guillaume Ramsden.
Title on added engraved title page: Histoire du Japon.
For history of the publication of this work and for further bibliographical information, see articles by Hans Hüls in: Engelbert Kaempfer zum 330. Geburtstag (Lemgo, 1982), p. 191-258.
The French translation has been variously attributed to Fran̨cois Naudé, Jean Néaulme and Pierre Desmaizeaux.
Added t.p. title: Histoire du Japon.
Indexed in: Cordier, H. Bib. Japonica col. 416.
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