Le Japon illustré. Ouvrage contenant 476 vues, scènes, types, monuments et paysages dessinées [sic] par E. Bayard, H. Catenacci, Eugène Cicéri, L. Crépon, Hubert Clerget, A. de Neuville, M. Rapine, E. Thérond, etc., une carte et cinq plans[The Illustrated Japan]
First edition in book form, illustrated with 5 color plans of Kyoto, Osaka, Yedo, Asaksa, Imato, and Yokohama, a map of Japan, two plates depicting examples of Japanese syllabaries (Katakana and Hiragana), and 476 wood-engraved illustrations within the text (see Cordier, Japonica, 670; Wenckstern I, 5; Nipponalia I, 2036).
Contemporary red half shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with blind-ruled fillets and gilt compartments; joints slightly split then discreetly restored at head and tail; boards covered in grained cloth with blind-stamped borders; endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré silk with minor, marginal spotting; all edges gilt.
A handsome copy of one of the first major travel accounts of Japan published in French.