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DESHIMA. - - Isoletta Desima abittata Dagli Olandesi nel Giappone (The island of Deshima where the Dutch live in Japan).

Title: Isoletta Desima abittata Dagli Olandesi nel Giappone (The island of Deshima where the Dutch live in Japan).
Description: Venezia, Gianbattista Albrizzi, 1736.Engraved bird's-eye-view of Deshima after Gerrit Voogt (second in command on Deshima from 1706 to 1714), with large legenda. Ca. 17 x 19 cm.From: Thomas Salmon, Lo stato presente di tutti I paesi e popoli del mondo naturale. - Deshima was the Dutch trading post from 1641 to 1859 on an artificial, fan-shaped island of less than one and a half hectares in the port of Nagasaki in Japan. It was the only contact between the western world and the largely closed off Japan during the Edo period. - Fine.

Keywords: Islands Japan VOC Dutch East India Company VOC Japan prints prints japan

Price: EUR 412.50 = appr. US$ 448.32 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36807