Author: B®CKSTRÖM, ANTON:
Title: Ett besök i Japan och Kina jemte bilder från vägen dit öfver Goda-Hoppsudden, Bourbon, Nya Kaledonien, Manilla och Kokinkina. Stockholm 1871.
Description: . Pp. viii, 391. With frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographs, 15 full page woodcut plates and many more illustrations in the text. Original pictorial red cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped. Publisher's stamp. First edition. Baeckström spent three years in the service of the French Navy and participated in this expedition to the Far East from April 1867 to February 1870. The voyage went via the Cape, Bourbon, New Caledonia, to Manilla, Cochinchina, Japan, China, and stopped in Singapore before it returned to Europe. References Japan on pages 177-340 (Nagasaki, Yokohama, Edo, Kamakura, Kobe, Osaka). Cordier BS 2132 & BJ 628. Löwendahl 1398.

Keywords: East Asia, japan, china, cochinchina, the philippines, japon, japanese, chine, cohinchine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, far east, east, eastern,


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