[Rarebooks] FS: Kaempfer's important 1712 illustrated study of Asian natural history

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(NATURAL HISTORY) Kaempfer, Engelbert. AMOENITATUM EXOTICARUM 
POLITICO-PHYSICO-MEDICARUM FASCICULI V, Quibus Continentur Rerum Persicarum & Ulterioris 
Asiae... Lemgo: Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer. 1712. 4to. 5 parts in 1. (18),912,(32)pp. 
Index. Title page printed in red & black. Copper engraved frontispiece. With 
15 (of 16) folding plates. Text with 63 full-page and 11 smaller woodcuts and 
engravings. Cont. Dutch vellum with a large blind tooled central ornament on 
both covers, spine covered by a gilt tooled leather strip. Vellum covers 
re-hinged. Covers somewhat bowed. Light browning to text, as in all copies due to the 
quality of the paper stock.     $5,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very important early study of Asian natural history. It is the first book 
to describe and illustrate the plants of the Orient. It includes the first 
description of the Camellia and the date palm. The final fascicule V “Plantarum 
Japonicarum” classifies nearly 500 Japanese plants, and is illustrated with 28 
full-page copper engravings. Our copy lacks 1 of the added 16 plates, a map at 
p. 759, which has been excised. See a long description in Hunt Botanical II, 
#427; Nissen #1018; Dunthorne #162.

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