Kaempfer englebert (23 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Library Of Renaissance Humanism; 8.6 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 248 pages; The book shows wear but is in a good condition. No writing or major blemishes.; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap a…nd securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1996
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Black cloth boards in very good condition with minimal handling. Light creasing to ffep. No dustjacket. Binding tight and text clean.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. FINE- in black cloth-covered boards, as issued. A small bookstore stamp on front free end paper. Not remainder marked. Not book club edition. Not ex-library.

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Editore: Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale 1996, 1996
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Aggiungi al carrelloreprint orig. cloth Fine octavo. 219pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Robert W Carrubba.
Editore: James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1906
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume Two Only. (x) 397pp with 39 illustrations and fold outs. Red buckram with gilt decorations and titles to spine. Uncut paper. No inscriptions. Boards lightly worn. Endpapers and edges lightly foxed. Textblock and illustrations in lovely clean tight and bright order.
Altre immaginiEditore: James MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1906
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Aggiungi al carrelloCloth. Condizione: Very Good. First edition thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition, thus. Three volume set, complete. A Very Good set. 8vo., (xc), 337, (x), 397, (ix). 385 pp, folding maps and plates, other illustrations. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine titles. Spines sunned end papers foxed as always, else a beautifu…l set of a lovely production. Handsome armorial book plate in each volume (matching). Very tight, very clean. A Very Good set. ***International and expedited shipping only will require additional postage charges.***.
Editore: James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1906
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Aggiungi al carrellohardcover. 1st. 8vo, 337,397,386 pp, Translated by J.G. Scheuchzer; limited to 1000 copies with numerous illustrations and fold-outs, Kaempfer was a German physician who recored his scientific and cultural observations of Japan and Southeast Asia in the late 17th century. There is some light dampstaining to the rear board & endp…aper of volume II, slight fading to spines and some foxing to endpapers (as usual), else a nice, tight set Very good copies in the original gilt-decorated red cloth. Well-illustrated (illustratore).
Editore: Printed for the Translator, London
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. [1929] Original full-leather binding w/ 6 raised bands on spine w/ elaborate gilt decoration and gilt title on red leather spine. This large volume is complete being 2 volumes bound in one, as issued. Hinges are tender. Wear to spine ends, edges and corners; light scratches. Page…s are intact, minimal soiling, scattered light foxing. Original owners bookplate on front paste-down, and name is present on front blank endpaper. Also included is a neatly handwritten note (in the original envelope) dated 1948 from Sadiko Suzuki to Capt. Tomas telling of obtaining the book for the Capt. and having to borrow money to buy the book (for him?) and could he pay for it (kind of confusing but noteworthy anyway). #60 of 150 copies of the 1929 facsimile printing of the 1727 original. Comes in original cardboard slipcase. Illust. w/ 45 copper plates and maps, many of the maps are large fold-outs.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 310 x 380 mm., in recent wash colour, good condition. Hiroshima is just off the map upper left. The coastline here extends from present day Kure eastwards towards the island of Shikoku. Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History of Japan' was originally written in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the… Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 410 x 315 mm., recent wash colour, small binders tear, repaired, otherwise in good condition. A detailed plan of the original Imperial Palace in Kyoto before it burnt down in the 1850s. This was the residence for eleven centuries of Japan's Emperors. It resides in the middle of the capital city of K…yoto before it was moved to Tokyo in 1868. Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History of Japan' was originally written in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. This is a plan of the present day city of Kyoto. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 305 x 375 mm., in recent wash colour, good condition. A detailed topographical map of the coastline west-south-west of Tokyo, Japan, which includes the famous volcano Mount Fuji in the upper right corner. The present day city of Shizuoka sits where Ftsiu Syriga is placed in the centre of the map, th…is no doubt is the present day ward of the city known as Suruga Ward. Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History of Japan' was originally written in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 295 x 370 mm., recent wash colour, in good condition. A detailed topographical map of the region of Japan which includes Ushimado (Usymano), just to the east of present day Okayama. Further east can be found the city of Akashi (Akasi), Kobe (Koobe), and of course Osaka. Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History… of Japan' was originally written in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 305 x 370 mm., in recent wash colour and good condition. A detailed map illustrating the route from Kitakyushu (Kokura) upper left to Kurume and Saga (Sanga) in southern Japan. The Kyogatake volcano is illustrated erupting on the far right. Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History of Japan' was originally writ…ten in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 305 x 380 mm., in recent wash colour and good condition. A fine detailed map of the coastline of Japan centred on Nagoya. It appears to commence around the site of Suzuka (site of the car racing circuit) and extends eastward to Hamamatsu (Fammamatz). Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History of Japan' was origi…nally written in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.

Editore: Amsterdam, 1730
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Aggiungi al carrelloNo binding. Condizione: Good. 340 x 390 mm., recent wash colour, one small margin tear just in to the image, repaired, otherwise in good condition. A detailed plan of the present day city of Kyoto (Jedo) in Japan. In the centre of the city is the original Imperial Palace. It was from here that the Emperors of Japan ruled the cou…ntry for eleven centuries. It burnt down in the 1850s and was moved to Tokyo in 1868 when the capital moved from Kyoto. Engelbert Kaempfer's 'History of Japan' was originally written in German. Kaempfer was a physician in Japan at the Dutch post of Dejima between the years 1690 and 1692. Shirley BL G.Kaem 1a.
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Aggiungi al carrelloGlasgow 1906, MacLehose. Red decorated cloth, very good copy 3 vol., 336+396+385p., 162 maps, illustrations, many folding small margin stain last few page edges,text clean,solid copy untrimmed, reprint of London 1727, 15 x 22 cm., tops gilt. A reduced size, but exact and complete reprint of the First edition, published 1727 by J….G. Scheuchzer. . The 2nd. edition in 1778 was improved containing a second index, & a 75-page appendix on the Natural History of the Japanese tea, with accurate description of that plant, its culture, growth, preparation and uses. Also of the paper manufacture of the Japanese. Of the Cure of the Cholick [sic] by the acupuncture, or needle-pricking as it is used by the Japanese. An account of Moxa, an excellent caustic of the Chinese and Japanese, showing how & where to insert the needles & where to burn. In all, the original had 45 finely engraved copper plates and maps, with early illustrations on Japanese tea plants, herb logy & acupuncture adorn this work. * SUBTITLE: Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State of government of that Empire, of its Temples, Palaces.of the chronology & Succession of the Emperors.Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.Kaempfer [1651-1716] was a German doctor with a passion for traveling. He went to Nagasaki in 1690-91. His work covers Japanese history & a very reliable & lucid description of the political, social & physical state of the country in the 17th century. * For upwards of 100 years this work remained the chief source of reliable and primary information for the rest of the world. Kaempfer was essentially stationed in Nagasaki harbor on the prison-like island of Dejima, the entrance of which was controlled by the Japanese. There he performed his medical duties as Dutch East India Company physician. Once a year, a representative of the Company was allowed to go to Edo under very strict military guard, to be observed by the Shogun. The entourage went by way of Nagasaki to Kokura, Osaka, Miaco [Kyoto], Fammamatz [Hamamatsu], to Edo, basically up the Tokaido highway. Kaempfer was sent to the Shogun's palace in Edo he was ordered to dance, sing & eat while being scrutinized by the Shogun who shielded himself behind a Sudare or bamboo curtain. The Shogun secretly watched the Oranda-jin [a Dutchman]. Kaempfer was a very open & free-thinking educated man, who was also an intellectual. The Shogun took to him & granted the favor of free travel throughout Japan, unheard of during this period of Japan's & fear of Westerners and isolation to the rest of the world. The Dutch were allowed just so many vessels to visit annually & trade with their "window to the world" at Dejima. Nagasaki became a gathering place for curious Japanese, as well as would-be Ran-gaku-sha [Japanese Scholars of Dutch Learning] who studied science, medicine, astronomy, geography, cartography and the Western art of copper plate printing. From this very tiny island "window" Japan's curious intellectuals made a school & began to teach Western style knowledge to an elite Japanese intelligentsia. * WHO WAS DR. ENGELBERT KAEMPFER: Kaempfer was one of the scant few who gave favor to the rise of such Japanese and taught them what he could. This most famous primary resource has been celebrated since its publication as THE single most important book on Japan in the 18th century. Over the past two centuries & a half, this work has maintained its position as one of the three most important books on Japan done in English in the West. Highly collectable and coveted by connoisseurs, historians & librarians renders this a magnificent primary resource with fabulous etchings. The addition of the appendices in 1728 on the Tea Camellia is the first appearance of this in English. Also the first discussion of acupuncture & the use of Moxa [Mogusa] as a medical remedy. The West is still learning about effectiveness of these two medical treatments to this day. Kaempfer's influence on the Japanese is difficult to assess, except that some of Japan's most intellectual scientists, physicians, reformers and scholars got their Rangaku from Deshima after Kaempfer arrived. Shiba Kokan the "Da Vinci of Japan", Matsukawa Hanzan and a host of others led Japan through the halls of innovation for the next two hundred and fifty years. Even today, medicine is still considered as "Rangaku" in Japan. The roots of Japan becoming a modern, well educated nation emanates from its first introduction of European learning via Deshima. This book documents the beginning of that era. In just two years' stay in Japan, Dr. Kaempfer began Japan's long voyage of equality with the West. RARE in either edition. Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Deshima factory in 1779-1780 and 1781-1784 in Nagasaki. *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL p.332 * M. Takahashi: CATALOGUE OF SPECIAL BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, Tenri 1932, vol.1, p.198, no. 4-8; * H. Cordier: JAPONICA 414-15. * Wellcome III 376. * Veith, I.: HUANG TI NEI CHING SU WEN: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, illustrates the famous plate on accupuncture found in Kaempfer. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS *** R A R E. A complete reprint of the original London 1727 edition, with all illustrations. *.
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Aggiungi al carrelloGlasgow 1906, MacLehose. Red cloth, 336+398+386p., 3 volume set, many fold out plates, index, superbly bright, fine copy a reprint copy of London 1727 edition, tops gilt,15 x 23 cm. FINE COPY IN COLLECTOR'S FINE CONDITION A reduced size, but exact and complete reprint of the First edition, published 1727 by J.G. Scheuchzer. . Th…e 2nd. edition in 1778 was improved containing a second index, & a 75-page appendix on the Natural History of the Japanese tea, with accurate description of that plant, its culture, growth, preparation and uses. Also of the paper manufacture of the Japanese. Of the Cure of the Cholick [sic] by the acupuncture, or needle-pricking as it is used by the Japanese. An account of Moxa, an excellent caustic of the Chinese and Japanese, showing how & where to insert the needles & where to burn. In all, the original had 45 finely engraved copper plates and maps, with early illustrations on Japanese tea plants, herb logy & acupuncture adorn this work. * SUBTITLE: Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State of government of that Empire, of its Temples, Palaces.of the chronology & Succession of the Emperors.Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.Kaempfer [1651-1716] was a German doctor with a passion for traveling. He went to Nagasaki in 1690-91. His work covers Japanese history & a very reliable & lucid description of the political, social & physical state of the country in the 17th century. * For upwards of 100 years this work remained the chief source of reliable and primary information for the rest of the world. Kaempfer was essentially stationed in Nagasaki harbor on the prison-like island of Dejima, the entrance of which was controlled by the Japanese. There he performed his medical duties as Dutch East India Company physician. Once a year, a representative of the Company was allowed to go to Edo under very strict military guard, to be observed by the Shogun. The entourage went by way of Nagasaki to Kokura, Osaka, Miaco [Kyoto], Fammamatz [Hamamatsu], to Edo, basically up the Tokaido highway. Kaempfer was sent to the Shogun's palace in Edo he was ordered to dance, sing & eat while being scrutinized by the Shogun who shielded himself behind a Sudare or bamboo curtain. The Shogun secretly watched the Oranda-jin [a Dutchman]. Kaempfer was a very open & free-thinking educated man, who was also an intellectual. The Shogun took to him & granted the favor of free travel throughout Japan, unheard of during this period of Japan's & fear of Westerners and isolation to the rest of the world. The Dutch were allowed just so many vessels to visit annually & trade with their "window to the world" at Dejima. Nagasaki became a gathering place for curious Japanese, as well as would-be Ran-gaku-sha [Japanese Scholars of Dutch Learning] who studied science, medicine, astronomy, geography, cartography and the Western art of copper plate printing. From this very tiny island "window" Japan's curious intellectuals made a school & began to teach Western style knowledge to an elite Japanese intelligentsia. * WHO WAS DR. ENGELBERT KAEMPFER: Kaempfer was one of the scant few who gave favor to the rise of such Japanese and taught them what he could. This most famous primary resource has been celebrated since its publication as THE single most important book on Japan in the 18th century. Over the past two centuries & a half, this work has maintained its position as one of the three most important books on Japan done in English in the West. Highly collectable and coveted by connoisseurs, historians & librarians renders this a magnificent primary resource with fabulous etchings. The addition of the appendices in 1728 on the Tea Camellia is the first appearance of this in English. Also the first discussion of acupuncture & the use of Moxa [Mogusa] as a medical remedy. The West is still learning about effectiveness of these two medical treatments to this day. Kaempfer's influence on the Japanese is difficult to assess, except that some of Japan's most intellectual scientists, physicians, reformers and scholars got their Rangaku from Deshima after Kaempfer arrived. Shiba Kokan the "Da Vinci of Japan", Matsukawa Hanzan and a host of others led Japan through the halls of innovation for the next two hundred and fifty years. Even today, medicine is still considered as "Rangaku" in Japan. The roots of Japan becoming a modern, well educated nation emanates from its first introduction of European learning via Deshima. This book documents the beginning of that era. In just two years' stay in Japan, Dr. Kaempfer began Japan's long voyage of equality with the West. RARE in either edition. Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Deshima factory in 1779-1780 and 1781-1784 in Nagasaki. *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL p.332 * M. Takahashi: CATALOGUE OF SPECIAL BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, Tenri 1932, vol.1, p.198, no. 4-8; * H. Cordier: JAPONICA 414-15. * Wellcome III 376. * Veith, I.: HUANG TI NEI CHING SU WEN: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, illustrates the famous plate on accupuncture found in Kaempfer. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS *** R A R E. A complete reprint of the original London 1727 edition, with all illustrations. *.