Author: DALTON, William.
Title: Will Adams. The first Englishman in Japan. A romantic biography.
Description: London, New York, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, (ca. 1870).Sm.8vo. Original decorated brown cloth, a.e.g. With woodengraved frontispiece and title-page and 18 woodengraved illustrations. XVI,298 pp.William Adams (1564 - 620), was an English navigator who, in 1600, was the first of his nation to reach Japan during an expedition for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Soon after Adams's arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Adams directed construction for the shogun of the first Western-style ships in the country. He was later key to Japan's approving the establishment of trading factories by the Netherlands and England.
Keywords: Asia Japan VOC Dutch East India Company VOC Japan
Title: Will Adams. The first Englishman in Japan. A romantic biography.
Description: London, New York, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, (ca. 1870).Sm.8vo. Original decorated brown cloth, a.e.g. With woodengraved frontispiece and title-page and 18 woodengraved illustrations. XVI,298 pp.William Adams (1564 - 620), was an English navigator who, in 1600, was the first of his nation to reach Japan during an expedition for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Soon after Adams's arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Adams directed construction for the shogun of the first Western-style ships in the country. He was later key to Japan's approving the establishment of trading factories by the Netherlands and England.
Keywords: Asia Japan VOC Dutch East India Company VOC Japan
Price: EUR 247.50 = appr. US$ 268.99 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 31483
- Book number: 31483