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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1884. Cover: soft rubbing/ touch scuffing & light soiling to new brown cloth on original boards recased with red titles over cream label and front cover with blindstamped titles and design. Tiny bumping and a touch rubbing to boards fore-corners. Edges: top-edge once dark coloured (?) now rubbed; moderate soiling and foxing. Sprinkling of foxing to most semi-glossy pages albeit mostly to the margins. B/w illustrations, maps present.. Binding is almost As New. 543p Moderately heavy book: 260 x 180 mm. First Edition. Hb. VG/None.

New York 1884, Armstrong. Brown pictorial cloth, 3 maps, 2 color folding, 18 b.w. plates, index, 543p., 7.5 x 26.5 cm., spine rebacked, cover edges chipped, else clean & solid copy 5 tipped in phototype photos. FIRST EDITION *** *** *** . . . AN EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE . . . FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION . . . WITH 5 TIPPED IN PHOTOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS . . * A superb and excellent primary work, performed in the early 1880's. A comprehensive scholarly study on physical geography, topography, flora, fauna & ethnography of Japan. . * A most copious reliable resource, addressing in much detail the situation, size and divisions of Japan, coast line, parts of the sea, currents, geological conditions, volcanoes hot springs, earthquakes. Orography: mountains, islands of Yezo, Kyushu, Shikoku et al. Hydrography of the country, rivers and lakes, climate. Flora: duration of vegetation, forests. Fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes et al. . * The Japanese people: their history, civilization, social conditions,… Read More

London 1888, Hodder. New black cloth, very good, 2 fold out color maps, 2 b.w. maps, 18 b. w. plates, index, 543p., very clean and solid copy, new endpapers, 5 phototypes tipped in. 7.5 x 26.5 cm. FIRST EDITION *** *** *** . . . AN EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE . . . FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION . . . WITH 5 TIPPED IN PHOTOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS . . * A superb and excellent primary work, performed in the early 1880's. A comprehensive scholarly study on physical geography, topography, flora, fauna & ethnography of Japan. . * A most copious reliable resource, addressing in much detail the situation, size and divisions of Japan, coast line, parts of the sea, currents, geological conditions, volcanoes hot springs, earthquakes. Orography: mountains, islands of Yezo, Kyushu, Shikoku et al. Hydrography of the country, rivers and lakes, climate. Flora: duration of vegetation, forests. Fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes et al. . * The Japanese people: their history, civilization, social conditions, Ainos, dress,… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton.. Second edition.. 1888.. Translated. Many full page black and white wood engravings and 6 original black and white photographs laid down, ix + 543pp, index, 2 large folding coloured maps, preliminarly leaves little foxed, some occasional spotting in text, in particular on the tissue guards, but in the main the text is very clean. Signature of presumably this copy's first owner dated June 1889, Yokohama, recto frontispiece. Professionally rebacked with new endpapers, original backstrip laid down on new spine, folding maps browned in places, closed tears on maps have been repaired with tape, pictorial cloth binding little rubbed and lightly marked, with some very minor loss on upper joint in one place still a very presentable copy. This detailed account of Japan in the 1870s is based on a residence of nearly two years in the country and many travels through the islands of Hondo, Shikoku, Kiushiu and Amakusa (sic) in the years 1874 and 1875. The author had been charged by the… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1888 In English, translated from the original German. A thorough description of all aspects of Japan, based on a nearly two year residence in that country. Includes numerous illustrations, including full page hors texte photos and steel plates. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the half title. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 543 numbered pp +4 pp reviews and ads; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled, black eps, large engraved frontis w/ tissue guard; a.e. tanned, a few early pp wrinkled at edge w/ sm tears. Cover: black, red/white ornamentation + gilt titles front/spine; moderate shelfwear, extrems well worn, head/tail have numerous nicks, v lt rubbing, spine mildly sunned.

New York: Armstrong, 1884. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With half-title, 18 illustrations (including 5 photographic plates and 2 folding maps), index and list of illustrations. Original illustrated cloth covers, rebacked; frontispiece loose, plate for "Nagasaki" placed at the end of the text and plate for "Japanese Types" is not attached and laid into book, other plates torn, brittle and chipped, but text very clean. First edition in English. "The first modern scientific study of Japan" by a European is categorized by geography, flora and fauna, climate, history, and ethnography. "The present work is based upon a residence of nearly two years in Japan, and extensive journeys through the islands of Hondo, Shikoku, Kiushiu, and Amakusa, in the years 1874 and 1875" (preface). Sponsored by the Prussian Government (Ministry of Commerce), Rein intended to study Japanese trade and industry during the Meiji Restoration, but discovered that an all-encompassing picture of the country was necessary for economic… Read More