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SIEBOLD (PHILIPP FRANZ von)
Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern, 7 parts bound in 2 vol.

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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SIEBOLD (PHILIPP FRANZ von)

Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern, 7 parts bound in 2 vol., 352 lithographed and engraved plates, plans and maps (of 365, 32 hand-coloured, 3 partly hand-coloured, 5 maps hand-coloured in outline), upwards of 70 window-mounted or laid down, 8 with light dampstain at foremargin, general title, 2 half-titles and one leaf of letterpress otherwise without text, red half morocco gilt, t.e.g, rubbed [Cordier, Japonica 477-478], folio (578 x 380mm.), Leiden, [1832]-1852

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LARGE PAPER COPY, with fine lithographed plates of the ethnography and geography of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century.

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