Books and Manuscripts from the Japan Society Library
Books and Manuscripts from the Japan Society Library
Property from the Japan Society Library, London
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Property from the Japan Society Library, London
A group of books on Korea, Formosa, the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria
comprising:
A. Henry Savage Landor, Korea: Cho-Sen the Land of the Morning Calm (London: William Heinemann, 1895)
Basil Hall Chamberlain, Luchu Islands & their inhabitants (n. p., 1895)
Frederick Palmer, With Kuroki in Manchuria (London: Methuen & Co., 1904)
George Psalmanaazaar, Historical & Geographical description of Formosa (London, 1704)
Henry Noel Shore, The flight of the Lapwing: a naval officers’s jottings in China, Formosa and Japan (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1881)
James W. Davidson, The island of Formosa past and present: history, people, resources and commercial prospects; tea, camphor, sugar, gold, sulphur, economical plants and other productions (London and New York: Macmillan & Co., 1903)
John Ross, History of Corea: Ancient and Modern
With Description of Manners and Customs, Language and Geography (Paisley: J. and R. Parlane, 1879)
Louise Jordan Miln, Quaint Korea (London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1905)
Mary Beatrice Greaves, Vignettes of Japan, China and America (Morland, Amersham, 1914), rebound
Owen Rutter, Through Formosa (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923)
Sebald de Weert, Journael wan’t geene vijf Schepen van Rotterdam [in Dutch] (Amsterdam: Gillis Joosten Saeghman, 1600)
Walter Weston, The Playground of the Far East (London: John Murray, 1918)
William Alexander Pickering, Pioneering in Formosa (London: Hurst and Blackett Limited, 1898)
Yosaburo Takekoshi (transl. George Braithwaite), Japanese Rule in Formosa (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907)