Meiji Era Missionary Travelogue for Japanese Audiences

[Illustrated Journey Around the World] Eiri sekai shuyu-ki

Gulick, O. H. [Orramel Hinckley]

Notes: A Christian missionary provides an illustrated travelog of the Holy Land, Europe, and the United States for Japanese audiences.

Gulick, born in Hawaii (1830–1923), was stationed in Japan from 1870 to 1892. In the early 1880s, he made an extended tour of the West, speaking widely on the efforts to convert Japanese to Christianity. This book, apparently only published in Japanese, introduces the West to Japanese converts and potential converts.

The book is illustrated with ten engraved or woodblock plates (three folding), plus several in-text illustrations. The most affecting image is block print of an Arab woman, which makes good use of negative space.

[2], 8, 131, [1] pages.

Not in OCLC.

Edition + Condition: First edition. A good copy, bound in paste paper over boards, with a cloth spine. Text block nearly detached from binding, thus a fair to good copy of a very scarce book.

Publication: Kobe, Japan: Beikoku Haken Denkyoshi Jimukyoku [American Board of Missionaries]? 1883 [Meiji 15].

Item No: #362661

Price: $400