Manuscript On Paper Entitled On First Leaf Of Vol I Hakuho Shinpen New Writings On Naval Artillery

by J N Calten Author Saburo Fujii Trans

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Ten pages of manuscript illus. in the first vol. plus a number of graphs & tables in the text. 724 folding leaves. Eleven parts in 12 vols. 8vo 265 x 185 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. Japan : 1847. The most complete copy known of one of the two Japanese translations of J. N. Calten’s Leiddraad bij het Onderrigt de Zee-Artillerie Dutch eds.: 1832, 1842, and 1847 . In the second quarter of the 19th century, Japan had an

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