Batchelor the ven dr john (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. WITH THE RARE DUST JACKET. Blue cloth, decorated in white and gilt. Jacket with photo of an Ainu man. Octavo volume with 448 pages, frontis portrait of the author and numerous plates and illustrations. Near fine condition, bright clean and sharp. Buff colored jacket with two small chips, but VG+. Batchelor was a British missionary who spent most of his life in northern Japan. He lived amongst the Ainu for 60 years, during which time he devoted himself to the study of their culture and language into which he translated the bible and the book of common prayer. He became the most well-known western scholar working with the Ainu. …