Folkestone. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1995. Black and white illustrations, 204pp, index, dustjacket spine little faded, very good copy. Kaempfer's "The History of Japan" was the result of two years' research in Japan in the early 1690s and was published in London in 1727; it appeared in a total of... More about The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan Engelbert Kaempfer's...

Baltimore. John Hopkins. n.d. (c.1970). Black and white illustrations, 245pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, decorative endpapers, prior owner's name front free endpaper, minor wear and fading dustjacket otherwise a very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 66359). More about Western Medical Pioneers in Feudal Japan

Cambridge, Mass. East Asian Research Center Harvard Uni. 1970. 79pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, few pages little creased at lower corners, covers little patchily faded. Signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free endpapers. A good copy. The demand for commerce was perhaps the chief factor which led to... More about The Bakumatsu Currency Crisis

Princeton. Princeton Uni Press. 1968. x + 396pp, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free endpaper, dustjacket torn with minor loss along edges now protected, otherwise a very good copy. "Western students of premodern Japan have at their disposal writings which, at the very minimum, provide an... More about Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan

Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1985. 360pp, notes, index, very good copy in dustjacket. The thirteen papers in this volume represent a concerted effort to place the historical demography of East Asia on a firm quantitive basis. They explore a wide range of Chinese and Japanese documentary sources and raise new... More about Family and Population in East Asian History

Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1970. viii + 253pp, index, biographical notes, list of works cited, hardback, foxed dustjacket with closed tear, now protected, endpapers and edges lightly foxed, attractive bookplate laid down front free endpaper, internally clean and sound. This book discusses the thought and life of Nishi Amane (1829-1897)... More about Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought

Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1970. viii + 253pp, index, biographical notes, list of works cited, hardback, dustjacket little marked and smudged, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, a very good hardback copy. This book discusses the thought and life of Nishi Amane (1829-1897) who was... More about Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought

Stuttgart. Brockhaus. 1982. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding map, lxviii + 310pp. Volume II: 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 1 folding plate, black and white full page plates, [8] + 478pp. Cloth, leather title labels spine, quarto. Small mark cloth upper cover, lettering on upper cover a little worn... More about Geschichte Und Beschreibung von Japan. Aus den Originalhandschriften des Verfassers herausgegeben...

University of Hawai'i Press. 1977. Black and white frontispiece, viii + 200pp, notes, glossary, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, foxing upper page edges, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Volume 2 of the Historical Literature of Mori Ogai. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143530). More about Saiki Koi and Other Stories

Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1968. Endpaper maps, full page colour and black and white plates, 241pp, appendices, bibliography, index. . 28 x 22cm. Dustjacket with marks where library labels have been removed otherwise a very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157643). More about The Japan Expedition. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry

Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1977. 183pp, signature of prior owner front paste down, notes, bibliography, index, good in slightly damaged dustjacket. A striking aspect of Japanese history was the static population figures during the 18th and early 19th century. Methods employed such as the use of infanticide are discussed in... More about Nakahara. Family Farming and Population in a Japanese Village, 1717 - 1830

Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 1980. 588pp, appendix, bibliography, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free endpaper, minor tear on upper right edge dustjacket, now protected, a very good copy. By reconstructing political events the author chronicles the collapse of a regime and explains why the governing... More about The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868

Richmond. Vic. Hutchinson. 1979. Endpaper maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 148pp, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 26 x 20cm. The Warner's have traced and re-traced the journey along the Tokaido, Japan's vital highway recapturing the events that have shaped Japanese history. (When referring to this item... More about The Great Road. Japan's Highway to the Twentieth Century