London, John Murray, Kelly & Walsh, 1905 , fifth revised edition. 1 volume in-8, cloth boards, VI-552 pp., with a very large folding colour map of Japan in fine, endpapers and totle page slightly browned, fresh and clean inside, overall a good copy.
A classical work on Japan and japense culture by Chamberlain, emeritus Professor of japanese and philology in the Imperail University of Tokyo.
[John Murray, Kelly & Walsh, Limited] - CHAMBERLAIN, Basil Hall
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(1902)
Fourth Edition Revised & Enlarged, 8vo vol., editor's hardcover, John Murray, Albermarle Street, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, London, Yokohama Shanghai, Hong-Kong, Singapore 1902, VI pp., 1 f., 545 pp. et une carte dépliante
Scarce copy signed by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935). British academic and Japanologist, Chamberlain his famous forthis informal and popular one-volume encyclopaedia "Things Japanese". Professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University since 1886, he was a friend of Lafcadio Hearn. Good condition (title page a bit rubbed, no jacket, otherwise a good copy).