First and only edition of a description of Japan by the Dutch naval commander Willem Johan Cornelis Huyssen van Kattendyke (1816-1866), recording events of his service in Nagasaki and surroundings in 1857, 1858, and 1859. It is a revised excerpt from his diary, with a lithographed map by marine officer and later politician Hendrikus Octavius Wichers (1831-1889), based on the maps and surveys of Von Siebold (1796-1866) and recent surveys by Huyssen van Kattendyke's colleagues.
The author travelled to Japan to deliver the steamship Japan, built for the Japanese emperor, and to relieve the Dutch navy unit that had been stationed there since 1855. During his stay in Nagasaki he recorded information about the people he met, the expeditions he made to surrounding islands, etc. The work also describes the final years of Japan's sakoku policy.
With a purple ownership stamp ("F. H. Plomp") on the title page. The spine has been repaired with pale blue buckram, the boards are somewhat stained, with a horizontal fold mark on the back board. Occassionally stained, the edges of the leaves and folding map are somewhat frayed. Otherwise in good condition. Cat. NHSM, p. 478; Cordier, Japonica, col. 552; Hesselink, "333 years of Dutch publications on Japan", in: Nihon Yogakushino Kenkyu IX (1989), no. 27; Tiele 518; cf. for the author: NNBW V, col. 254; map not in Walter, Japan a cartographic vision.