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A succinct account of the adventures of Mr William Adams.
William Adams (1564-1620) was the first Englishman to reach Japan, arriving on a Dutch ship at Bungo (a principality containing present day Usuki City) in May 1600. After a summons by the Emperor at Osaka, imprisonment and interrogation, he was…
Novissima Sinica [title page].
'I consider it a singular plan of the fates that human cultivation and refinement should today be concentrated, as it were, in the two extremes of our continent, in Europe and in Tshina (as they call it), which adorns the Orient as Europe does the…
The city of Yedo or Edo (now Tokyo) [detail].
Between 1630 and 1830 Japan's borders were virtually closed to western visitors. The only Europeans allowed into Japan were the Dutch. Atlas Japannensis: being remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces…
Modus Scribendi.
"The Society of Jesus was founded in 1539 by St Ignatius of Loyola. From their base at Goa, India, the Jesuits ventured forth to Japan and China: their goal to spread Christianity and promote the work of the Society. Over the years, their written…
China monumentis [frontispiece].
Kircher was ordained a Jesuit in 1628 in Mainz, Germany, but fled his homeland and settled in Rome in 1634 to escape the Thirty Years War. He remained in Rome most of his life researching a wide variety of disciplines, from geography and astronomy to…
Regni chinensis descriptio [front cover].
In 1611, the Flemish Jesuit missionary Nicolas Trigault reached Peking (Beijing), one year after the death of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the founder of the Jesuit mission in China. On his return to Rome, Trigault translated Ricci's memoirs into Latin…
The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1,…
The Shogun's audience.
A. Is the throne or Audience-seat of his majesty, where he shows himself to his Princes and Nobles.
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
Pianta di Roma del 1676
1 map in 12 sections ; 148 x 145 cm., sections each 37 x 48 cm. + explanatory book (10 p. ; 43 cm.)
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…
Pianta di Roma del 1625
1 map in 12 sections ; 79 x 150 cm., sections each 25 x 37 cm. + explanatory book (31 p. ; 38 cm.)
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In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1625
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In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1625
Recens prout hodie iacet almae vrbis Romae cum omnibus viis aedificiisque prospectus acuratissime delineatus
1 map in 12 sections ; 105 x 243 cm., sections each 51 x 40 cm. + explanatory book (12 p. ; 44 cm.)
Facsimile reprint on 1606 ed.
On case title: La pianta di Roma del 1606 (1593).
Facsimile reprint on 1606 ed.
On case title: La pianta di Roma del 1606 (1593).