Binding ENCADERNAÇÃO.- VARENIUS, Bernhardus.- DESCRIPTIO | REGNI IAPONIÆ | Cum quibusdam | affinis materiæ, | Ex variis auctoribus collecta | et in ordinem redacta per | BERNHARDVM VARENIVM | Med. D.- Amstelodami: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649.- [48], 267 (aliás 287) p.: 1 frontispício gravado; 11 cm.- E. The author (1622-ca.1651), a German physician born in Hitzacker (Hannover), never got to visit Japan, having collected several travellers' texts, in particular, François Caron, Marco Polo, Torsellini, Linschoten, etc. A second part was even published with an independent cover and paging and a different title. Damaged binding of the time with gold engraved supra-libros of the House of Cadaval (crowned monogram) at the centre of both plans (upper plan with severe damage affecting the supra-libros). Willems, 1095. Cordier (Japonica), 367/368.