AMENOMORI, Nobushige.

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The Grand Hotel Limited Guide Book for Yokohama and Immediate Vicinity. A late 19th-century instalment of the Grand Hotel's tourist brochure. Besides the usual recommendations for sightseeing and leisure, it offers a 23-page phrase book and many charming period advertisements, including a full-page pitch for business from Hori Chiyo, the tattooist patronized by Lady Churchill, the future King George V, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.The hotel issued updated guidebooks regularly and these are usually undated. This copy names as manager Louis Eppinger, whose tenure lasted from 1891 to 1905.Provenance: Reverend John Davis (1851-1924), the first professor of ecclesiastical history at St Paul's Theological Seminary, Tokyo, with his purple ink address stamp (318 North Seventh Street, Hannibal, Missouri) on the front pastedown and first page. Proficient in eight languages, Davis was also a keen botanist who collected for the Arnold Arboretum.

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