First Lessons on Natural Philosophy, for children. [Rigaku Shoho].

SWIFT, Mary A.

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Yedo (Tokyo) 1867. 16x11cm publisher's pattern wrapper with printed title label. Illustrations throughout, one with handcolouring. Stitching broken; a used but most acceptable copy. Ownership has been claimed in pencil in English at the back - which would be the front for a Japanese book. This is part one of two and a new edition enlarged, but this is repeated from the title page of whichever edition was used as the copy book. The second part was published in two volumes, maybe a bit later. A quick look at Worldcat might convince us that the libraries of the world are swimming in copies of this but a run through the first dozen or so entries found one copy of part two of part two - in Japan. Several libraries denied that they had any copy, even an electronic copy. Before we feel too sorry for Japanese children: from what I can gather this first generation of western primers produced in 1866 and 67 were for the bakumatsu schools which were to train officers and future diplomats. Which is not to say that children escaped unscarred as public education spread to the masses.

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• Titolo: First Lessons on Natural Philosophy, for children. [Rigaku Shoho].
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