The Chinese and Japanese Repository of Facts and Events in Science, History, and Art Relating to Eastern Asia

Published by Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co, London

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8vo. 1846-5. Scarce. Three volumes bound in one, with 8 issues total. Various pagination. Includes Volume I: No. 12 (June 1864); Volume II: No. 13 (August 1864), No. 14 (September 1864), No. 15 (October 1864), No. 16 (November 1846), and No. 17 (December 1864); Volume III: No. 18 (January 1865), and No. 21 (April 1865). Full modern teal cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some light rubbing to spine and corners. Ex-library from the Benjamin Smith Lyman Collection, given as a memorial to the Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. Bookplate to front pastedown. Embossed library stamp and pointilist ex libris of Forbes Library to title page of Vol. I. Perforation to title page of Vol. I, repaired with tape to verso. A few stains and pencil annotations to interior. Some creasing to pages. A fascinating publication documenting life in China and Japan in the mid-1860s from the perspective of a Westerner.

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Chinese and Japanese Repository of Facts and Events in Science, History, and Art Relating to Eastern Asia
Author
Summers, Reverend J. And Dr. Reinhold Rost
Publisher
Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co, London
Condition
Near Fine
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No Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Seller catalogs
Art, History, Oriental Studies

Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB

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