Reglement voor de Opzieners bij het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch Indie …

Japan, ter Drukkerij te Desima [Nagasaki], 1858. Octavo, original plain pink wrappers stitched in the Japanese style (loss of paper along spine), pp 80; early Japanese owner’s seal stamps in red to title and lower wrapper; some worming to lower wrapper and margins of first and last few leaves, else very good; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box with gilt lettering and ornament to spine.

A rare Dejima (Nagasaki) printing, being an official Dutch colonial publication concerning the administration of coal mining in the Dutch East Indies. 

Dejima (or Deshima) was a small artificial island built in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634. The island came to serve as the principal port for direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Edo period (1603-1868). It was used by the Dutch as a trading post from 1641-1853. Dejima was also an important port for regulating the importation of European books. Until about 1857, the Japanese submitted order forms to the Dutch for European books, while the Dutch themselves had works imported as gifts for Japanese officials or in the anticipation of what might interest the Japanese. There are very few extant copies of Dutch-language books printed at Dejima between 1853 and 1860.

Extremely rare. We can locate no other copy.