[Rarebooks] FS: Le Japon: 356 engravings

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Humbert, Aime. "LE JAPON...1863-1864," in Le Tour du Monde. Nouveau 
Journal des Voyages 1866-1869 [Six Volumes]. Paris: Librairie 
Hachette et Cie, 1866-1869. Illus. with 356 steel engravings and 1 
map. 4to. Quarter brown cloth over blue paper-covered boards 
(hardback).  First edition.

The full 6 volumes (2600 pp) containing the complete run of 23 parts 
of Humbert's report on Japan (Nos. 340-344; 359-361; 384-386; 
415-417; 448-450; 492-495; 508-9) spread over 4 years (xiv:16-80 pp; 
305-352 pp; xv: 289-336 pp; xvi: 369-416 pp; xviii: 65-112 pp; xix: 
353-416 pp; xx: 193-224 pp).

Aime Humbert (1818-1900) minister plenipotentiary was sent by 
Switzerland as the head its first trade delegation to Japan in 1863. 
During his nearly year long stay, he recorded his observations of 
Japanese society, religion, history, and law. "His vivid descriptions 
of Japanese legal processes, in which the sword and the bamboo stave 
played important roles, make it easy to understand why western 
governments insisted on 'extra-territoriality' in their treaties. ... 
'The repression of common offences' he wrote 'is marked from 
beginning to end by ferocity'," (Neil Pedlar: The Imported Pioneers: 
Westerners Who Helped Build Modern Japan, p184).

This is the first appearance of this work which was later printed in 
book form as 'Le Japon Illustre'  (Hachette, 1870) and then in 
English as 'Japan and the Japanese Illustrated' (1874). Also included 
are articles and illustrations on the Exploration of High Asia, the 
Pubjab, Kashmir, the Caucuses, Sudan, the Volga, Babylonia, Brazil, 
South America, New Caledonia, Peru, Abyssinia, Spain, Loire Mines, 
Alaska, and Florida (with an additional 1600 steel engravings and 67 
maps).

Very good or better, the occasional scuff to boards, tiny chip to 
head of one spine, faint dampstain to the upper margin of one volume, 
scattered foxing mainly to margins, the odd tear, engravings quite 
sharp and clean, bindings tight.   [28932]   $650.00

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