Author: BATCHELOR, JOHN:
Title: Ainu Life and Lore. Echoes of a Departing Race. Tokyo, Kyobunkwan, 1927.
Description: . Pp. (xii), 448, (1). With front portrait, many plates, of which ten coloured, and numerous textual illustrations. Original blue cloth, blind-stamped with gilt vignette on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, very lightly rubbed. First edition. Inscribed by the author. The Reverend John Batchelor came to Hokkaido in 1877 where he lived and served as a methodist missonary amongst the Ainu, the aboriginal people of Japan, for more than 60 years. A few leaves with folds at outer margin, otherwise a lovely copy. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2274.
Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, ainu, aino, asia, asie, asien, hokkaido, asiatic, travel, exploration, ethnography, ethnographical,
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Title: Ainu Life and Lore. Echoes of a Departing Race. Tokyo, Kyobunkwan, 1927.
Description: . Pp. (xii), 448, (1). With front portrait, many plates, of which ten coloured, and numerous textual illustrations. Original blue cloth, blind-stamped with gilt vignette on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, very lightly rubbed. First edition. Inscribed by the author. The Reverend John Batchelor came to Hokkaido in 1877 where he lived and served as a methodist missonary amongst the Ainu, the aboriginal people of Japan, for more than 60 years. A few leaves with folds at outer margin, otherwise a lovely copy. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2274.
Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, ainu, aino, asia, asie, asien, hokkaido, asiatic, travel, exploration, ethnography, ethnographical,
Price: EUR 600.00 = appr. US$ 652.11 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 100029
- Book number: 100029
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