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Remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples, and fortresses; their religions, laws, and customs; their prodigious vvealth, and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers, and fountains: with the character of the ancient and modern Japanners. Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus. English'd, and adorn'd with a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland

Title
Remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples, and fortresses; their religions, laws, and customs; their prodigious vvealth, and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers, and fountains: with the character of the ancient and modern Japanners. Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus. English'd, and adorn'd with a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland
Author/Creator
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.
United Provinces of the Netherlands.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Publisher
Printed by the author and are to be had at his House in White Fryers
Publisher Date
M. DC. LXXI. [1671]
Description
eebo-0084
Note
An English translation, by John Ogilby, of: Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maatschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aan de Kaiseren van Japan.
With engraved frontispiece, and engraved illustrations throughout.
Title page printed in red and black.
Caption title on p. 1 reads: A memorable embassy to the emperor of Japan.
Reproduction of the original in the Magdalen College Library, Oxford.
Subject
Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
East India Company--Early works to 1800.
Library URL
991009869998206306