Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical, From the Earliest Period at Which the Islands Composing This Empire Were Known to Europeans, Down to the Present Time, and the Expedition Fitted Out in the United States, Etc.

MacFarlane, Charles

Verlag: Putnams, New York, 1852

Beschreibung

The author's account of Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration, in the last years of the Tokugawa Shogunate & just before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854. The Tokugawa shoguns ruled Japan during this period of western intrusion in the 1850's; Book V of the volume is devoted to Government, Legislation and Police, and describes political conditions of the time: "everything and everybody are under a system of ancient, unchanging laws". Sml 8vo, xii, 365pp, b&w ills. Original dark green stamped gilt cloth with ornate gilt decorative border to front cover, gilt title at spine. Covers rubbed, spine slt sunned & spine ends rubbed. Internally, previous owner book plate inside front cover, and inscription at ffep. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15825

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Japan: An Account, Geographical and ...

Verlag: Putnams, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good +

Auflage: First American edition.