“Treatise on the Barbarians in Nagasaki”

by KiyŌ Banshi 崎陽蛮志

$25,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1853. Manuscript on paper. Eight fine brush & color-wash full-page illus. & nine smaller illus. in the text. 35 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with the orig. title-slip, orig. stitching. Japan : 1853. A manuscript copy of a rare work, never published, on the Russian expedition, led by Vice-Admiral Evfimi Vasilevich Putiatin 1803-83 , to Japan in 1853. We find no copy of a work with this title in WorldCat, and only two copies in

• Binding: Wrappers

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