qua fieri licuit fide & cura descriptum a Joh. Casparo Schevchzer. Relief shown pictorially. Latitudinal and longitudinal lines along margin. Title across top. Decarative cartouche with Japanese Gods, compass rose, rosaries. Shows topography, waterways. Statistical table: Numerantur in Imperio Japonico. Distance table: Japonici Imperii à varijs Terrarum Orbis partibus distantiæ juxta Japones & eorum milliaribus. Dedication to Hans Sloane. "Tab. VIII." From: The History of Japan ... by Engelbertus Kempfer ... translated ... by J.G. Scheuchzer. London, 1727. Japanese characters throughout. 2 inset maps: Kamtschatka ... ; Niphon, S. Japaniae Insulae ... From Kaempfer's The history of Japan, London, 1727.
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Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716 and Scheuchzer, John Gaspar, 1702-1729
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