[Japan] Very uncommon phrase book in English, Dutch and Japanese designed for the use of foreign traders and travellers in Japan. According to one source, the book was based on A New Familiar Phrases of the English and Japanese Languages (in) General Use for the Merchant for Both Countries (Nagasaki, 1859), by Motoki Shozo. Bound in crimson velvet, extravagant endpapers, and a gilt-stamped title in Japanese. For more information, see the detailed paper about the book by John Bray published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Fifth Series, volume 5, 2013, pp. 230-239.
London: Trübner & Co. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1861.
pp. [2], vii, 44. 14.2 x 19cm.
In very good condition with only minor age wear. b37011777
