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JAN COMPAGNIE IN JAPAN, 1600-1850: An Essay On The Cultural Artistic & Scientifi
by BOXER, C.R
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Hague 1936, Nijhoff. Buff cloth, excellent, 198p, index, 4 color, 12 b.w. photos, bibliography, 16 x 24.5 cm.,appendix, contents pristine, small nick to upper spine hinge, with the author's pennd letter signed & tipped in. RARE FIRST EDITION . *** **** **** . . RARE FIRST EDITION OF BOXER'S MOST AUTHORATIVE BOOK . . . ON EARLY DUTCH IN JAPAN . . . TOGETHER WITH BOXER'S HOLOGRAPHIC LETTER TO FELLOW . . . AUTHOR & SCHOLAR, MELVIN P. MCGOVERN . . * This covers the Dutch impact on Japan, cartography,geography military arts, medicine, botany, astronomy, Nagasaki interpreters & the study of Dutch in Japan, pictorial arts or Namban works. . Famous Dutch residents of Deshima:, Titsingh, Kaempfer, Caron, Cocks, Pompe Van Meerdervoort, Rangakusha: Shiba Kokan, Sugita Genpaku, Yoshimune and a host of others. * A major reliable contribution to this subject. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** This FIRST EDITION contains an aerogramme letter in the author's penned hand. It is dated 1957, and is addressed to the famous author & scholar, Melvin P. McGovern at the U.S. Army Command, Japan. At that time, Boxer was at University of London's King's College. . The author discusses a reference to Hoea 8th year and confesses that he [Boxer] "gave up my Japanese studies some years ago...." Boxer also discusses the" M.Kunita's NIHON KOHAN CHIZU SHUSEI, Tokyo 1932" cartographic reference book. Boxer also states: "...Although I notice that the latest and best work on the subject which is known to me, GeorgeBeans, A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA EAR [Tall Tree Librar...1951...does not list any maps of Nagasaki prints in the Hoei period..." Nicely signed, "C.R. Boxer." . This letter is held in place with 4 of the old photo album black 'corners' which allows the letter to be removed and read. . Nicely preserved example. . This copy came from the McGovern library, though there are no markings or indications to that fact. The letter was of course found in this copy. . *** Please visit our website where more books by Boxer & McGovern are posted. . * .
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- JAN COMPAGNIE IN JAPAN, 1600-1850: An Essay On The Cultural Artistic & Scientifi
- Author
- BOXER, C.R
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Japanese Social Science, History, Law, Economics & Eclectic Item; Nagasaki City: Related To History, Guides, Foreigners In & All Others; Foreigners In Japan: All Periods; Maps Of Japan: Japanese/european Printed Maps & Cartography;
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