Curzon george nathaniel edited (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. A pristine hardcover copy. The jacket shows some shelfwear, but is now protected by a mylar brodart cover. This is an abridged version of the two-volume original, with the sections meant to appeal most to the reader rather than to the student retained and the more academic chapters deleted. The original photos are included. This looks like 192 pages of wonderfully interesting reading, handsomely laid out.…

Boards. Condizione: Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. First edition. 4to, 192 pp., illustrated throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. xv + [i] + 126 + [1] pp. Text in Japanese and English. Some text, including notes in Japanese. In limp blue pictorial card wrapper with white titles. A little wear to extremities, including sunning of spine, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 7 pages of black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece. Decorated by title page photographic vignette. George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of Kedleston (1859-1925), under whose viceroyalty (1899-1905), the British Raj in India is often considered to have reached its apogee, travelled extensively in Asia early in his career. This title transcribes in English, the relevant diary extracts covering his two visits to Japan in 1887 and 1892. Edited by Anthony Farrington, writer on the East India Company and early English trade with Asian countries. A publication of The Richard Cocks Society, based at Chukyo University, Nagoya. It is named after Richard Cocks (1565-1624, who established the first East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan in 1613. DIARIES JAPAN ASIA 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED DIARIES. …