Aimé Humbert was the chief ambassador (minister plenipotentiary) of the Swiss Republic to Japan, from 1863-1864.
An account of his experiences was published as Le Japon illustré in 1870, in Paris, and then in translation into English as Japan and the Japanese by a London-based publisher in 1874.
References
- Peter Kornicki, "New Books for Old," Monumenta Nipponica 62:1 (2007), 99n5, 105.