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Collection de Pelliot, Manuscrits de Touen-houang
Collection de Pelliot, Manuscrits de Touen-houang
[Transcriber/s and annotator/s unidentified].
[S.l.: s.n., ca. early 20th century].
Possibly a typescript draft of the catalogue of the Pelliot Collection of Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Uighur fragments and manuscripts discovered in China's Dunhuang caves (or 'Mogao Grottoes') by the French ...
Shukenron: Eikoku gakushi Hobbusu-cho (Theory of Sovereignty: by the English Scholar Hobbes)
Shukenron: Eikoku gakushi Hobbusu-cho ["Theory of Sovereignty: by the English Scholar Hobbes"]
Hobbes, Thomas [original text by]; Monbushō [edited by].
[Tōkyō]: Monbushō Henshū-kyoku, Meiji 16 [1883].
The first published translation of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (1651) in Japa ...
The Great War of 1870 between France and Germany
The Great War of 1870 between France and Germany = Sen-happyaku-shichi-jū-nen Haifutsu Senki
Brockett, L.P. [original text by]; Sugawara, Toshio [translated by]; Hosokawa, Junjirō [corrections by].
Tōkyō: Suharaya Mohē, Meiji 4 [1871].
A Japanese translation of a work of the same English title on the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) by Linus Pierpont Br ...
Treatise on Silk and Tea Culture and Other Asiatic Industries Adapted to the Soil and Climate of California
Treatise on Silk and Tea Culture and Other Asiatic Industries Adapted to the Soil and Climate of California
Kendo, T. A.
San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1870.
A detailed description of the processes of tea cultivation and sericulture by the Japanese immigrant T.A. Kendo. By mid-1869, "[s]everal hundred Japanese were reported settling with the intention ...
Zhu shi jiao zheng Hua Ying si shu (The Four Books in Chinese and English, annotated and corrected)
Zhu shi jiao zheng Hua Ying si shu ["The Four Books in Chinese and English, annotated and corrected"]
Legge, [James] [translated by].
[Shanghai?]: Shang wu yin shu guan, [ca. early 20th century?].
An English translation by the Scottish missionary James Legge (1815-1897) of the 'Four Books' (Confucian analects, The great learning, The doctrine ...
A finely bound record of a trip to Japan
A walk through Japan, 1877
Goff, Lieutenant-Colonel [Robert Charles] [text by].
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1878.
A privately published record of an 1877 trip through Japan by Lieutenant-Colonel Go ...
A story of the Otokodate of Yedo = Banzuiin Chōbē
A story of the Otokodate of Yedo = Banzuiin Chōbē
[Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (original text by)]; White, J.L. [corrected by].
Tokyo: Shoeido, Meiji 35 [1902]. Sixth edition.
A translation of the work Banzuiin Chōbē by the British diplomat and Japanologist Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837 - 1916). The text recounts the s ...
An English Magazine: Reflections
The Hansei Zasshi: A Monthly Magazine, Vol. XIII., No. 1.
[Tsukioka], Kōgyo [illustrated by]; Inouye, Tetsusiro, Takakusu, J., Wadagaki, K., Fukuchi, M. [with contributions by].
Tokyo: The Hansei Zasshi Office, Meiji 30 [1898].
An issue of the Hansei Zasshi, "a monthly magazine in English, edited by Japanese". The editors pledge in their foreword to "repre ...
Die ersten lectionen des Deutschen sprachunterrichts: im gebrauch der Deutschen anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
Die Ersten Lectionen des Deutschen Sprachunterrichts: im Gebrauch der Deutschen Anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
Daigaku Nankō [edited by].
Jedo [Tōkyō]: Daigaku Nankō, 1870.
The first German primer to be published in Japan, and the second German study book overall to be published in Japan (after 官版独逸単語篇 (Ka ...
Emigration at first sight: a play in one act
Emigration at first sight: a play in one act
Douglas, Ian [text by].
London and Glasgow: Gowans & Gray; Boston: The Baker International Play Bureau, 1930.
A charming play about a young Scottish man and woman who meet in an emigration office, the man looking to emigrate to Toronto, the woman to Auckland. Due to a lack of communication with the off ...
Four sets of illustrated physics and optics textbooks
Gohō Shinron ["New Thesis on the Defense of the Dharma"]
Shōkoku, Dōjin [text by].
[Japan]: Seimeikan [blocks owned by], Keiō 3 [1867].
An illustrated three-volume work that "critiques the astronomical theories of the contemporary west and presents the cosmological teachings of Buddhist India".¹ In this work, the author, Shokoku Dojin (Kamuro An ...
I am a Cat (Chapter I, Chapter II)
Natsume, K. [Kinnosuke; Natsume, Soseki]; Ando, K. [Andō, Kanichi] [translation by]; [Hashiguchi, Goyō (illustrations by)].
Tokyo : Y. Okura, 1906 [actually 1908]. First edition, later printing.
The first English translation of Natsume Soseki's classic of modern Japanese fiction. The translator, Andō, a fan of Conan Doyle, went to the great writer's house ...
The Golden Lotus and Other Legends of Japan
Greey, Edward [written and with covers designed and drawn by].
Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1883. First edition.
A first edition copy of Greey's 'The Golden Lotus', inscribed by him to Mrs. (Lizzie) Fenollosa (dated 1882, before the official publication of the book). Ernest Fenollosa taught political economy and philosophy at the Imperial University ...
Wayō Jikon Burui (Classes of Mixed Japanese and Western Characters)
Wayō Jikon Burui ["Classes of Mixed Japanese and Western Characters"]
Miki, Kōsai [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Hōzandō, Meiji Mizunoesaru [1872].
An illustrated encyclopedia in kanji and romanised Japanese, with definitions in mixed kana and kanji. The volume was compiled and presumably illustrated by Miki Kōsai (1830-1884), also known as Utagawa Yoshimori I. Books, fu ...| 1 - 14 of 14 : |
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