THE HISTORY OF JAPAN, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THAT EMPIRE; OF ITS TEMPLES, PALACES, CASTLES AND OTHER BUILDINGS; OF ITS METALS, MINERALS, TREES, PLANTS, ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISHES Of the Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, & Tc. , &tc. Illustrated with Many Copper Plates. (Historia Imperii Japonici) , I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]

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54054

Title

THE HISTORY OF JAPAN, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THAT EMPIRE; OF ITS TEMPLES, PALACES, CASTLES AND OTHER BUILDINGS; OF ITS METALS, MINERALS, TREES, PLANTS, ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISHES Of the Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, & Tc. , &tc. Illustrated with Many Copper Plates. (Historia Imperii Japonici) , I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]

Author

Kaempfero, Engelberto (Engelbert Kaempfer) , Johannes Casparus (John Gasper) Scheuchzer

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - VG+

Publisher

Koseikaku

Place of Publication

Kyoto

Date Published

1929

Keywords

Asian Art, Japan, History

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