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DescriptionProperty from the Japan Society Library, LondonA group of books on various subjects including travel and memoirs of Japan, some from the library of Ernest Mason Satow  
comprising:
Algernon Mitford (Lord) Redesdale, A Tragedy in Stone and other papers (London and New York: John Lane, 1912)Anna D’Aguilar, A lady’s visit to Manilla and Japan (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859)Arthur Adams, Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870)Arthur H. Crow, Highways and byways in Japan (London: Sampson Low, Marsten, Searle and Rivington, 1883)Basil Hall Chamberlain (ed. W.B. Mason), A Handbook for Travellers in Japan Including the Whole Empire from Saghalien to Formosa (London: John Murray 1907), donated by Basil Hall ChamberlainC. Pemberton Hodgson, A residence at Nagasaki and Hakodate in 1859-1860 with an account of Japan generally (London: Richard Bently, 1861), donated by Ernest Mason SatowCharles Lanman, Japanese in America (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1872), donated by Ernest Mason SatowDavid Brauns, Japanische Märchen und Sagen [in German] (Leipzig: Wilhelm Friedrich, 1885), donated by Ernest Mason SatowE. G. Holtham, Eight years in Japan 1873-1881: work, travel and recreation (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1883) donated by Ernest Mason SatowEdouard M. Fraissinet, Le Japon: histoire et description [in French], vols. 1-2 (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1854), donated by Ernest Mason SatowEdward Barrington de Fonblanque, Nippon and Pe-che-li; or, Two Years in Japan and Northern China (London: Saunders, Otley & Co., 1863) donated by Ernest Mason SatowSir Edwin Arnold, Japonica (London: James R. Osgood, 1891)Sir Edwin Arnold, Seas and Lands (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904)Eufemia von Kudriaffsky, Japan. Vier Vorträge [in German] (Wein: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1874), donated by Ernest Mason SatowFerdinand Junker von Langegg, Midzuho Gusa [in German] (Leipzig: Drud und Berlag von Breittopf und Härtel, 1880), donated by Ernest Mason SatowG. Lauts, Japan in zijne en het verkeer met Europesche natiën [in Dutch] (Amsterdam: G. J. A. Beijerinck, 1847)Georges Bousquet, Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l’extrême orient: tome premier [in French] (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1877)Georges Bousquet, Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l’extrême orient: tome second [in French] (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1877)Guillaume Depping, Le Japon [in French] (Paris: Librairie Furne, 1895)Hendrik Doeff, Herinneringen uit Japan [in Dutch] (Haarlem: François Bohn, 1833) donated by Ernest Mason SatowHenry Faulds, Nine years in Nipon (London: Alexander Gardner 1885)Henry T. Finck, Lotus-time in Japan (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895)Ichitaro Hitomi, Le Japon: essai sur les moeurs et les institutions [in French] (Paris: Contant-Laguerre, 1900), donated by Ichitaro Hitomi on 27 Juny 2000Isabella Bird (ed. I.L. Bishop), Unbeaten tracks in Japan (London: George Newnes, Limited, 1900) donated by Isabella BirdIsabella Bird, Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels in the interior including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikkô and Isé, vols. 1-2 (London: John Murray 1880)Joseph Heco (ed. MurdochJames), The narrative of a Japanese, vol 1-2 (Yokohama: Yokohama Printing and Publishing Co., 1876), donated by Joseph Heco on 13 July 1895Leopold Katscher, Japan: interessantes aus dem Mikado reich [in German] (Berlin: Derlag Continent Theo Gutmann, 1887)Ludovicus C. D. van Dijk, Zes jaren uit het leven wemmer van berchem [in Dutch] (Amsterdam: J. H. Scheltema, 1858), donated by Ernest Mason SatowM. Chaplin Ayrton, Child-life in Japan and Japanese Child-stories (London: Friffith, Farran & Co., 1888)Mary Crawford Fraser, A diplomat’s wife in Japan: letters from home to home, vol 1, 3 (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899-1900)Maurice Dubard, La vie en Chine et au Japon [in French] (Paris: E. Dentu, 1882)Maurice Dubard, Le Japon pittoresque [in French] (Paris: E. Plon, 1879)Richard Cocks (ed. Edward Maunde Thompson), Diary of Richard Cocks (1615-1622), vols. 1-2 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1883)Rodolphe Lindau, Japan [in Dutch] (Leyden: de Breuk & Smits, 1865)Wilhelm Heine, Japan und seine Bewohner [in German] (Leipzig: Otto Burfürft, 1860), donated by Ernest Mason SatowWilhelm Heine, Japan, Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Landes [in German] (Dresden, 1873), donated by Ernest Mason SatowWilliam Blakeney, On the coasts of Cathay and Cipango forty years ago (n. p., 1902), donated by William Blakeney in 1903[Anon.], L’écho du Japon, Voyages dans le nord du Japon [in French] (Yokoham: C. Lévy, 1880)[Anon.], The Life and Works of Miss M. H. Cornwall Legh (n. p. n. d.)Condition reportThe books are overall in good condition, some spines are worn on the top and bottom edges.
Anna D’Aguilar, A lady’s visit to Manilla and Japan (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859); the spine is detached.M. Chaplin Ayrton, Child-life in Japan and Japanese Child-stories (London: Friffith, Farran & Co., 1888); the spine is worn.
All the books, journals and pamphlets have library stamps, some collection labels and library numbers stuck to the spines. 
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