Osborn, Sherard, Capt.:

$450 · Offered by William Reese Company

A CRUISE IN JAPANESE WATERS. Second edition, published same years as the first. Osborn was a captain in the Royal Navy. He describes travel from China to Japan, Japanese scenery at Nagasaki, the Dutch establishment in Japan, a visit by the governor of Nagasaki, an earthquake at Simoda, and a visit to Yedo, as well as Japanese customs and attitudes of the Japanese toward westerners. An interesting account by a British naval officer just after the opening of Japan.

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