Manuscript on paper, entitled “Kōbei nichiroku” 航米日錄 “Daily Record of the Voyage to America”

by Sadayū 玉虫左太夫 Tamamushi

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Several small illus. & one double-page chart. Seven vols. 8vo 235 x 165 mm. , orig. wrappers, old stitching. Japan : before 1868. A manuscript copy of this famous travelogue of the first Japanese embassy to the United States in 1860. This important text remained unpublished until 1913. The Japanese mission was “tasked to present to President Buchanan a letter from the shogun and to exchange instruments of ratification for the US-Japan

• Binding: Wrappers

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