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Item #316793 Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to...

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the...

London: George Newnes, 1900. First edition thus. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird, later Mrs. J.F. Bishop (1831-1904), left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returned to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society..... Read More about Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the...

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Item #19735 Note-Book of a Journey to Japan, Korea and China 1919. William K. Bixby

Daughter's copy–“a small edition.” Not In Bibliography

Note-Book of a Journey to Japan, Korea and China 1919.

[Boston]: Privately Printed for the Family and Friends of W. K. Bixby [Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press], [December], 1921. Limited to 60 copies. Daughter's copy–“a small edition.” Not In Bibliography. Inscribed by Bixby to his daughter and her husband “Emma & Albert. For family use only, a...... Read More about Note-Book of a Journey to Japan, Korea and China 1919

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Item #318102 A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire. Major R....

A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire.

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1933. First. Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (1892-1970), a British army officer, lived in Japan in the early 1930s, and was considered by Westerners at that time to be a preeminent source of knowledge on the area, proving to be erroneous on whether the Japanese were..... Read More about A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire

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Item #320019 Dogs of China & Japan. In Nature and Art. V. W. F. Collier

Inscribed to Roy Chapman Andrews

Dogs of China & Japan. In Nature and Art.

London: William Henemann, 1921. Inscribed to Roy Chapman Andrews. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication in Peking to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, an explorer, naturalist, was President of the Explorer's Club, director of the American Museum of Natural History, and the model for Indiana..... Read More about Dogs of China & Japan. In Nature and Art

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Item #32433 Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters. Harriet E. Francis

Inscribed, Privately Printed

Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters.

[New York: [Privately printed by the De Vinne Press], 1887. Inscribed, Privately Printed. Privately printed account of a world tour by a wealthy family in 1875-76, liberally illustrated with beautiful photographs. The author travelled through China, Japan, Siam, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain. The..... Read More about Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters

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Item #300422 Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script to Lou Gehrig, from "the Children...

Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan

Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script to Lou Gehrig, from "the Children of Japan"

[Japan: 1934]. Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan. Gehrig barnstormed around Japan in 1934, joined by Babe Ruth, his manager Connie Mack and a dozen other players. Gehrig brought his wife Eleanor, intending the trip to be the first leg of their delayed honeymoon. Gehrig and Ruth..... Read More about Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script to Lou Gehrig, from "the Children of...

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Item #305186 Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduithe Taal, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot...

Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduithe Taal, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot nut van 't Algemeen. Oranda bunten kohen./ Gra Japanese...

Leiden: Deventer and Groningen, bij D. Du Mortier en Zoon, 1810. [But Edo; Kaei 1 (1848)]. The scarce first syntax of the Dutch language printed in Japan, here with the woodcut text in italic freehand. Genpo was a well known Dutch scholar who introduced Dutch learning to Japan, this printed..... Read More about Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduithe Taal, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot nut van 't...

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