Cat.No: 264026 Catalogue 363, Foreigners in Early Japan Part II: Picture Scrolls, Prints, Books, Maps, Perry, Russians, Nagasaki, Travel, Geography, Netsuke, Yokohama, Meiji Cookery, Clocks, etc. [with] Catalog 386, Foreigners in Early Japan Part III: Perry in Japan, Nagasaki Prints, Christianity in Early Japan, Clocks, Whales and Whaling and A Major Collection of Yokohama Prints. [pair from a series, each complete in itself]. Dawson's, uncredited cataloguer.

Catalogue 363, Foreigners in Early Japan Part II: Picture Scrolls, Prints, Books, Maps, Perry, Russians, Nagasaki, Travel, Geography, Netsuke, Yokohama, Meiji Cookery, Clocks, etc. [with] Catalog 386, Foreigners in Early Japan Part III: Perry in Japan, Nagasaki Prints, Christianity in Early Japan, Clocks, Whales and Whaling and A Major Collection of Yokohama Prints. [pair from a series, each complete in itself]

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, Fall 1966 / late 60s. Part II @ 72p., Part III unpaginated (similar), entries #146 to #561, small saddle-stitched copyshop-type formats (matching, rather plain), illustrations are small and faint, annotation runs from two lines to half-page and was composed by an expert familiar with issues are eras. Spinefold of III is toned, else the pair is in very good condition. The 60s prices and relative price structure should be of interest.

In 1859 Yokohama, "a small rural village," was opened to trade and became a "thriving international port" with foreigners from five European nations busy busy, bringing their novel customs, inventions, women, sailors. "Japanese publishers.. satisfied the public's curiosity by producing woodblock prints depicting the new foreign residents: tens of thousands of the colorful images were dispersed within the first two years .."

Cat.No: 264026

Price: $25.00