Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.
Amsterdam, J. Muller, 1833
Born Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily in 1782 (died 1866), she was niece of Marie Antoinette, and as Marie Amalie was Queen consort to Louis Philippe, King of the French, known as the Citizen King. She was the last Queen of France.
First edition; 4to, x, 320 pp. 15 hand-coloured lithographs, contemporary crimson morocco, richly decorated in gilt and blind, covers with outer gilt chain panel with gilt arms of Queen Marie-Amelie to upper cover and central rectangular panel with gilt floral tools to rear, spine gilt-lettered direct and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, cream watered silk doublures, a fine copy.
Bobins 300; Cordier, 490; Landwehr (Dutch Books with Colour Plates), 385; Tiele, 357.
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