The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.

A$1,250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

[s.l.] : Privately printed, 1888. Quarto, original printed card wrappers (lightly marked, spine sunned); pp. [8], 54, errata slip tipped in after p. [8]; illustrated with 13 plates of facsimiles; front free-endpaper with previous owner s red seal stamp, a few pages with scholarly annotations in fountain pen; a fine copy, housed in a quarter morocco clamshell box, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A valuable reference work by Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929), British diplomat, bibliophile and Japanologist.

• Binding: Hardcover

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