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Seibutsu shigen: ichimei shugenron (Origin of living things: or, in another name, an origin of species)
The first full Japanese translation of Darwin's 'On the origin of species', Meiji 29 (1896).
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Shārokku Hōmuzu no omoide, Shārokku Hōmuzu: saigo no aisatsu, (and) Shārokku Hōmuzu no eichi
Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Shōwa 36 (1961).
US$125.00
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Pītā Pan (Peter Pan)
An early translation of Peter Pan, Shōwa 4 (1929).
US$75.00
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Saō meisaku-sen: zenyaku (Selection of famous works of Shakespeare: fully translated)
Selections from Shakespeare, illustrated, Taishō 5 (1916).
US$75.00
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Shekusupīa monogatari (Tales from Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare, Taishō 12 (1923).
US$75.00
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Zokugo Mako-den: shinyaku seisho (St. Mark in Japanese Colloquial)
A Taishō era translation of The Gospel of St. Mark, Taishō 3 (1914).
US$175.00
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Yaso ichidai benmōki [A refutation of the life of Jesus]
An illustrated record of Christian history, complete in six volumes, Meiji 7-8 [1874-1875].
US$4,925.00
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Kaigai hiyō shūbunshū [Foreign secrets collected and reported]
A record of early correspondences between Japan and Russia, the Netherlands, and the US, [ca. Kaei 7 (1854)].
US$3,285.00
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Morikosu shotō wage daiichi [translated explanation of the Moluccas, first part]
A manuscript on the Moluccas, for the first time identified as a translation of François Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724) and attributed to Nagasaki's Senior Interpreter Yoshio Kōsaku, friend of Titsingh, Thunberg, and Shiba Kōkan, [ca. mid to late Edo period (1780-1830s)?].
US$5,865.00
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Seiyō Tsurezuregusa (A Western Tsurezuregusa)
A Western Tsurezuregusa, with selections from Chamfort, Hobbes, Reed, and Disraeli, Taishō 4 [1915].
US$495.00
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Kokkei jitsuwa (Amusing true tales)
An American's Cultural and Linguistic Gaffes in Japan, Meiji 36 [1903].
US$495.00
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Rondon tsūshin: shin inyō hakase (London news: new yin-and-yang professor)
An early translation of a Sherlock Holmes mystery: Conan Doyle's 'A study in scarlet', Meiji 33 [1900].
US$895.00
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Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Pō Shishū ["A Collection of Poems by Poe"], Taishō 12 [1923].
US$115.00
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Kutsu no hiai (This misery of boots)
A socialist pamphlet by H.G. Wells, Taishō 14 [1925].
US$275.00
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Dickens's A Christmas Carol
Kurisumasu Karoru [A Christmas Carol], Taishō 4 [1915].
US$375.00
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On Socrates
Sokuratesu ["Socrates"], Taishō 4 [1915].
US$115.00
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Hōmā Monogatari (Tales from Homer)
A Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey, Shōwa 4 [1929].
US$85.00
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Ninety New Movable Puzzles
A Western-Style Puzzle Book, 1877
US$2,345.00
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On the Dutch Language, for Scholars of Medicine
A Path to Dutch Learning, 1810
US$865.00
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On Christopher Columbus
A Biography of Columbus, 1870
US$2,545.00
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Bringing Up Father: Jiggs and Maggie, First Collection
A Japanese Translation of Bringing Up Father, 1924
US$405.00
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Thoughts on Tennyson's In Memoriam
A Reflection on Tennyson's Poetry, 1918
US$265.00
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