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Image for Vol. I: We Japanese, being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese, besides numerous other subjects; 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II: We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners, besides numerous other subjects; 200pages, 389 illustrations

Vol. I: We Japanese, being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese, besides numerous other subjects; 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II: We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners, besides numerous other subjects; 200pages, 389 illustrations

By: De Garis, Frederic

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Miyanoshita, Hakone, Fujiya Hotel, Ltd.: 1937

Seller ID: 320

PUBLISHED ON THE EVE OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY MANAGING DIRECTOR OF FAMOUS HOTEL. Two volumes, each 8 1/2 inches tall, in original silk-covered folding case with bone clasps; book bound in silk-covered paper wrappers, vertical paper title labels to cover of case and book, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Each volume inscribed on front free endpaper to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hackett, by H.S.K. Yamaguchi, [Managing Director of the Fuji...
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Our Hundred Days in Europe

By: Holmes OW;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Co.: 1887

Seller ID: 175

1887 FIRST EDITION OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES' TRIP TO ENGLAND AND FRANCE WITH DAUGHTER. 8 inches tall original green cloth binding with beveled edges, gilt emblem to cover, top edge gilt, iv, 329 pages, black endpapers, Dedicated to only daughter Amelia, who accompanied Holmes on the trip, and died shortly thereafter. Light stain to bottom of cover, otherwise very good. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. (August 29, 1809 û October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. ...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

By: Livingstone, David

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Bros., Publishers: 1858

Seller ID: 641

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'S FAMOUS FIRST EXPLORATION OF AFRICA, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND WITH FOLDING MAPS, COPY OF VIRGINIA PHYSICIAN AND LAWYER. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, signature of Jos. A. Waddell to front endpaper, steel engraved portrait of author, tissue guard, wood engraving of tsetse fly to title page, double-page frontis wood engraving of Victoria Falls, xxiv, 732 pp, 43 wood engravings, 22 of which are full-page, fold-out section across south-central Africa, 2 fold-out maps bound at back, ea...
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Image for An Enquiry into the Reputed Poisonous Nature of the Arrows of the South Sea Islanders, in Relation to the Occurrence of Three Fatal Cases of Tetanus after Wounds by Them on Board Her Majesty's Ship Pearl, in 1875 [Admiralty Report]

An Enquiry into the Reputed Poisonous Nature of the Arrows of the South Sea Islanders, in Relation to the Occurrence of Three Fatal Cases of Tetanus after Wounds by Them on Board Her Majesty's Ship Pearl, in 1875 [Admiralty Report]

By: Messer, A.B.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: [London], [1876-1877]

Seller ID: 547

RARE 1876 FIRST EDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND STUDY BY PHYSICIAN TO QUEEN AND KINGS: DEATH OF ROYAL NAVY CREW FROM POISON ARROW ATTACK IN SOUTH PACIFIC. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 brown calf binding in marbled covers, gilt tooled spine with red leather label, gilt title, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to front paste-down, 50 pp including 2 double-page folding tables, very good. Offprint from Journal of the Royal Anthopological Society, pp 149-163, 164-198, contains two reports by Dr. Adam Brunton Messer, Royal Navy, the first includes field observations by Dr. Messer During the visits...
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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: with Anecdotes relating to some Eminent Characters

By: Moore, John

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell: 1783

Seller ID: 272

1788 MATCHING VOLUMES IN FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER: TRAVELS IN LATE 18TH CENTURY EUROPE RECORDED BY SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, gilt decorated spines with red leather gilt title labels to spines, dated ink signature of Rachel Susan Anderson, Feb 1832 verso of front flyleaf each volume. Cover edges rubbed, spine ends frayed, hinges weak, scattered light foxing, no other marks, overall good+ in archival mylar covers. Dr John Moore FRSE (1729 – 1802) was a Scottish physician and travel author. After taking a medical degree at Glasgow, he servedas a Sur...
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Our Hundred Days in Europe

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

An Enquiry into the Reputed Poisonous Nature of the Arrows of the South Sea Islanders, in Relation to the Occurrence of Three Fatal Cases of Tetanus after Wounds by Them on Board Her Majesty's Ship Pearl, in 1875 [Admiralty Report]

A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: with Anecdotes relating to some Eminent Characters