ASIA - Japan - Montanus, Arnoldus. Atlas Japannensis. Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. Collected out of their several Writings and Journals. English'd by J. Ogilby. With engraved frontispiece. Frontispiece, 1 engraved head vignette and initial, 1 folded engraved map, 25 (21 double-page, 4 folded) copper plates and 70 text engravings. London, Printed by Tho. Johnson for the Author, 1670. folio (43 × 28 cm). [2] pp., 488 p. Brown full leather binding in the style of the period, with old covers. With late. Spine label and floral gilt to spine. Cox I, 325-26 - Cordier BJ 384-85 - Kress S 1341 - Landwehr VOC 524 - First English edition of this important, richly illustrated source work, based on the accounts of seafarers, traders and missionaries, published a year earlier in Dutch and German. - "Exceedingly rare. The plates to this work represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century. Apart from these, this book remains one of the most curious of the numerous works of travel in the Orient during the 17th century." (Cox). - Slightly browned, the plates slightly foxed in the margins in places.