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natural history3
ainu language2
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Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716)5
Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729)5
Everard, Edmund3
Scheuchzer, John Gaspar3
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689)3
Delboe, Simon2
Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745)2
Gibben, Hamond2
Klaproth, Julius Von (1783-1835)2
Naude, Fran̨Cois2

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Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.1)

Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729)

1758

Title vignette.

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Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.2)

Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729)

1758

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Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.3)

Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729)

1758

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A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious, of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne : Not printed among his first six voyages. : Divided into five parts... [etc]

Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689); Everard, Edmund

1680

First edition. Advertisements: first leaf and [2] p. at end. Head-pieces; initials; ornaments. Title within double line border. Parts 3-5 correspond to the second collation and pagination. C...

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Kamawanu Tenugui

2018-2019

A packaged Tenugui scarf or Tenugui. This was made using a stencil. The symbolic design in stripes has the following meaning: the sicle is "kama" and the circle "wa" and the last character is the hi...

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San kokf tsou ran to sets, ou Aperçu général des trois royaumes (text)

Rinsifée of Sendai; Klaproth, Julius von (1783-1835)

1832

Maps bound together in separate volume. Contains Korean and Aino vocabularies. Japanese title in Japanese characters at head of t.-p. Title vignette.

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San kokf tsou ran to sets, ou Aperçu général des trois royaumes (maps)

Rinsifée of Sendai; Klaproth, Julius von (1783-1835)

1832

Maps bound together in separate volume. Contains Korean and Aino vocabularies. Japanese title in Japanese characters at head of t.-p. Title vignette.

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collar (inner)

early 20th-mid 20th Century

An embroidered kimono inner collar (uraeri?) on cream crepe silk. One of a group of 12 collars, this piece has two embroidered symmetrical panels. There is a gold warp thread along the edge of the se...

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Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.1)

Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729); Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Delboe, Simon; Gibben, Hamond; Ramsden, William; Naudé, Fran̨cois; Néaulme, Jean (1694-1780); Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745)

1729

The "Appendice ou supplement de L'Histoire du Japon" (v. 2, p. [1]-73 (3rd group)) is a translation of 6 sections from the author's Amoenitates exoticae (Lemgo, 1712) relating to Japanese matters, inc...

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Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon (v.2)

Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Scheuchzer, John Gaspar (1702-1729); Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716); Delboe, Simon; Gibben, Hamond; Ramsden, William; Naudé, Fran̨cois; Néaulme, Jean (1694-1780); Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745)

1729

The "Appendice ou supplement de L'Histoire du Japon" (v. 2, p. [1]-73 (3rd group)) is a translation of 6 sections from the author's Amoenitates exoticae (Lemgo, 1712) relating to Japanese matters, inc...

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