![Item No: #362513 [Lt. Shirase's Explorations] Shirase chui tankenki. Yoshimasa...](/pictures/thumb/362513.jpg?v=1674767092)
First Edition. Technically the second edition of Shirase Nobu's biography (1861–1946), including an account of the Chishima Islands expedition in the Arctic, as well as of the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which Shirase led from 1910 to 1912. The first edition of this book was reproduced from typescript in 1940.....
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First Edition. Scottish-South African explorer Archibald Colquhoun "traversed through the unknown lands of western China and scampered along the jungle-covered middle stretches of the Mekong River. When he returned to London he lectured widely and wrote... Burma and the Burmans... He had one message: All that stood in the way.....
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![Item No: #362551 [Traveler's Guide Book to Europe and America] Obei shisatsu...](/pictures/thumb/362551.jpg?v=1674324312)
First Edition. A business-oriented travel guide to the United States with additional sections devoted to Europe, South America, and Cuba. The book offers advice on obtaining permission to travel (a somewhat difficult endeavor given anti-Japanese sentiment in the US), information on traveling by rail across America, recommended hotels for entrepreneurs.....
Price: $1,250
![Item No: #362535 [Guide to America] Tobei annai. Sen Katayama](/pictures/thumb/362535.jpg?v=1674324307)
This is one of many guides to studying and immigrating to the United States by Katayama Sen published under a variety of similar titles with somewhat different content. Katayama spent a dozen years in the United States, returning to Japan in 1896. He discovered socialism while in America and became.....
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![Item No: #362534 [A Guide to Going to America] Beikoko toko annai. Eitaro Iijima](/pictures/thumb/362534.jpg?v=1674324305)
"A guide to America which provides general information as well as specific facts on the American educational system, matriculation requirements, and curricula, especially of colleges and universities. The appendix consists of a list of selected American colleges and universities."—A Buried Past, 113. The author may be Rippo Eitaro Iijima, a......
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![Item No: #362533 [New Southern Travel Initiative] Nanpo shin tokoho. Shigeshi...](/pictures/thumb/362533.jpg?v=1674324303)
First Edition. A book encouraging Japanese civilians "of all classes" to emigrate to the regions newly under Japanese control, following the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific, including Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines. There is even a short chapter describing Hawaii (pp. 94ff). The book adopts the.....
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First Edition. A novelization of the life of the Chinese emperor Guangxu (Kwang Hsu) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Der Ling was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter American. Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her maternal grandfather was a a Boston merchant. She learned English and French.....
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First Edition. A rare guide to coming to America published during the brief window during the first years of the 20th century when it was legal for Japanese citizens to emigrate to the United States, before the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement made the process much more difficult. Still, this book reflects.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #361097 [Recent Guide to America] Saikin tobei annai. Goichi Yamane](/pictures/thumb/361097.jpg?v=1674324235)
First Edition. "A collection of miscellaneous essays on America intended as a guide. All the essays first appeared in the Tobei Zasshi. A 12-page section on English conversation is appended."—A Buried Past, 131. Tobei Zasshi (America-Bound Magazine), was "the official organ of the Tobei Kyokai (Association for the America-Bound), an.....
Price: $2,500
![Item No: #362531 [New Methods of Going to America] Shin tobeiho (also...](/pictures/thumb/362531.jpg?v=1674767095)
Later printing. One of the most widely read of all the guides for Japanese immigrants to America. This book was written by Shimanuki, the founder of Nihon Rikkokai—the Japan Self-Help Society—a Christian group that helped poor Japanese from rural areas to study and work abroad. This is the first guide.....
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First Edition. One of the most influential books on the Challenger space shuttle disaster and a notable work on the sociology of decision-making. According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited 5000 times in the academic literature. Vaughn is a professor of sociology at Columbia University. 575 pages. First.....
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First Edition. A classic Texas book, illustrated with a folding lithographic map. This early Texas history was written by a British attorney who tried practicing law in 1839 and 1840 in the new Republic of Texas. He returned to England and immediately began denouncing Texas at every opportunity. In particular.....
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First Edition. Volume three only of this series. The contents are "Diary of Sarah White Smith (Mrs. Asa B. Smith); Letters of Asa B. Smith; and Other Documents Relating to the 1838 Reenforcement of the Oregon Mission." Published in the series First White Women Over the Rockies: Diaries, Letters, and.....
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Second Edition. One of the few 19th century African dictionaries compiled by an African native speaker. This book, a Yoruba to English dictionary, is based on an earlier version, first published in 1843. Crowther's dictionary was reissued (with revisions) many times, most recently in 1950 by Oxford University Press, a......
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First Edition. An uncommon account of travel to Australasia. The Scottish author was prominent in the early Christadelphian movement and edited The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898. This travelogue, which includes much theological commentary, has been published several times in the 20th century; this original edition is uncommon. [4].....
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51 pages. 6-1/2 by 9 inches. Colophon with a printed limitation of 150 copies. A critical transcription of Christopher Columbus's journal entries regarding his time in Cuba with words and phrases crossed out by hand to indicate the corrections made by Bartolome de las Casas. This selection from Columbus's "Derrotero o......
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First Edition. A comic account of of life on a cruise ship, written by the captain with the help of the mystery writer John D. MacDonald. "The least common of [MacDonald's] late-career hardcovers"—Firsts Magazine, Nov. 2002. 305 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good.....
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First Edition. An inspirational book by a marathoner and mountain climber. 225 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed, "To Brian! Mitch Lewis."
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First Edition. A classic tale of white pioneer settlement in Washington, by one of the founders of Lynden, Washington. The book was self published a few months before the author died, based on the journals she kept, starting during her overland crossing in 1853. The book remains in print today.....
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First Edition. An anti-emigration guide to the US with a chapter exploring the theory that Native Americans were descendents of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. In 1819, Howitt, a farmer from Nottinghamshire, explored the eastern seaboard of the United States between Washington, DC, to Boston, complaining about.....
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Two circa 1870s carte de visite photographs from a Brooklyn photographer, probably copy prints from a returned missionary or traveller to India. The first image is a portrait of a seated woman with two young children. On the back (verso) someone has written in a contemporary hand, "A Zenana Lady.....
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![Item No: #306986 [Correspondence Relative to the Naval Expedition to Japan]....](/pictures/thumb/306986.jpg?v=1615675803)
First Edition. Commodore Perry's correspondance written during his historic two-year expedition to Japan, which led to the opening of the island nation to the West. This is the first publication of Perry's dispatches detailing his observations on Japan at a time when it was very little known in the United.....
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A nice profile photograph of Jules Verne reproduced by Woodburytype tipped in as the frontispiece of a bound volume of G. A. Henty's Union Jack magazine. This is identified as Volume III on the title page, but includes vol. II, no. 49 (December 2, 1880) to vol. II, no. 53 (Dec.....
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A rare Maori hymnal for the Ratana church. Ratana, a Maori religious, political, and social movement, was founded in 1918 in New Zealand by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana. He saw a vision and began preaching that the Maori and the Japanese were the lost tribe of Israel. The Ratana church advocated.....
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Second edition, revised and expanded, of this collections of hymns, first published in 1873 as "Temperance songs, etc., in the Maori language." The text of this book is devoted to Maori language songs written to the tunes of the hymnal "Sacred Songs and Solos" as well as popular melodies, including "God.....
Price: $500
