 Bush, Lewis & Brunton, R.H. The Life and Times of the Illustrious Captain Brown. A chronicle of the sea and of Japan's emergence as a world power TOGETHER WITH The Japan Lights, Tokyo and Rutland: The Voyagers' Press Limited and the Charles E. Tuttle Company Limited, 1969.First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Hardback, 220mm x 280mm tall (8.5" x 11" approx.). Pp xviii, 168, with vignettes to the half-title and title and 2 text figs., plus 6 colour plates and 24 further plates with a total of 29 b/w photo illustrations, plus a multi-folding sea chart and a multi-folding double-leaf spread with 8 drawings of four Japanese lighthouses, showing their construction and location. The book contains, as an Appendix, a full reprint of R.H. Brunton's most uncommon 1876 work on lighthouses "The Japan Lights". Fine, in the original flecked orange buckram-covered boards/gilt on black spine label, and with the very good and unclipped, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper. (Book ref. 003052) £ 55.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Christopher Baron, are shown in the right-hand column. |
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