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Books Pertaining to Commodore Perry's
Expedition to Japan and Okinawa and Books
Relating to 19th Century Japan and Okinawa

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The period from the late 1700s through the mid-1800 was the era of great Exploring Expeditions by the major world powers. These expeditions had several purposes. They were intended to document, survey, map and generally record the places they visited. Perhaps foremost was the political purpose. The major world powers were seeking to expand their influence and bring these new areas under their influence. There were several major US Exploring Expeditions undertaken in 1830-55 period. These included:

• Charles Wilkes, Expedition to the Pacific, 1838-42.


• William Lewis Herndon, Expedition to the Dead Sea, 1847.


• James Melville Gilliss, Astronomical Expedition to Chili, 1849-1852


• William Lewis Herndon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-2.


• Commodore Cadwallader Ringgold and later Captain John Rodgers, North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853-1856.

The Perry Expedition to Japan (1852-4) may well represent the pinnacle of these epic Naval Exploring Expeditions. Japan had long been closed to the outside world. American ships were plying the seas around Japan in increasing numbers and it was becoming imperative to open Japan to our sea commerce and trade. It was in this context that Commodore Perry embarked on his great exploring expedition.

The public was very interested in this expedition (and others also). It was closely followed in the press and printed media. In addition, the US Government recognized a responsibility to document the expedition. This was accomplished primarily through a published narrative of the expedition. The Perry Expedition included artists and a photographer. The work of these members was woven into the narrative report of the expedition to provide a comprehensive view of what was done and seen.

The Perry Expedition may well be one of the best documented of all these great Exploring Expeditions. This was passed down in the official Narrative published by order of Congress and numerous unofficial accounts published over the years. The numerous books and publications pertaining to the expedition are outlined below.  

 
Perry, Commodore M. C.,
Hawks, Francis L., compiler:
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy.

Printed by Order of the Government of the United States. Compiled by Francis L. Hawks. First Edition, two different printers (Nicholson & Tucker), Washington, 1856-8, 3 Volumes. One authorized by the US Senate (Senate Printer - Beverley Tucker) and the other by the US House or Representatives (House Printer - A. O. P. Nicholson). In addition, a full and unabbreviated version of the Narrative was printed privately by D. Appleton. This privately printed version is identical to the two government authorized versions and is not to be confused with abridged versions printed by Appleton.

The narrative is illustrated with numerous black and white, tinted and hand-colored lithographs, folded maps, 352 wood-engraved charts of the night skies, drawings in the text, and a fourteen page facsimile of the treaty with Japan in Japanese calligraphy. The book measures approximately 24cm x 29.25~.75cm (9.5 x 11.75+ inches) [4to - quarto].

The Narrative was actually written under Perry's supervision by Reverend Francis L. Hawks and Dr. Robert Tomes. Hawks was the rector of Calvary Church, New York City and Tomes was a physician who was just beginning a career as an author. Perry was an Episcopalian and this influence, combined with Hawks background, explains the Protestant-moralist ethical tone of the Narrative. Some scholars believe that Heine (the expedition artist) also contributed in writing the Narrative.

Printers:
Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856-1858, Washington
A. O. P. Nicholson, House Printer, 1856-1858, Washington
D. Appleton & Company, private printing, 1857, New York (only Vol 1 confirmed)

Volume 1, Original Narrative, 1856 (Tucker and Nicholson) & 1857 (Appleton). The first volume (Tucker, Nicholson & Appleton) (537 pages) is a chronological account or narrative of the expedition. It contains the following art and illustrations:

• 89 or 90* lithograph plates, all but one color (tinted lithographs and chromo-lithographs)(the image area is generally 15½-16 x 22½-23cm and sheet size is generally 22.25~23 cm x 28.5~29 cm).


• 3 "facsimiles" of Japanese woodblock prints - 2 folding (included in the total count of 89/90 lithographs above).


• 6 maps & charts - 2 folding.


• Numerous (78 listed) woodcut engravings in the text.

The unabbreviated Appleton printing of Volume 1 is not widely know. However, the book is listed in the Library of Congress catalogue (LC Control Number: 03022255). I have found no evidence that Appleton published unabbreviated versions of Volumes 2 and 3 and doubt that the company did.

The following art and illustrations are in this volume:

• 4 tinted lithographs of Chinese scenes;


• 2 uncolored engraved plates of animals (natural history);


• 6 hand-colored lithographs of birds;


• 10 hand-colored steel-engravings of fish;


• 5 engraved plates of shells - 2 hand-colored;


• 16 diagram plates of winds & currents;


• 14 page facsimile of Japanese language version of the US-Japan treaty;


• 17 folding maps/charts (2 merged with text and 15 (14 map sheets with 15 maps) at the end of the volume);


• 10 woodcuts in the text.

While I have not personally examined the item, I have been advised that the Government prepared and distributed the 15 maps (14 map sheets), found in the back of Volume 2, as a separate volume. The covers of the map folio being identical to the bindings used on the other three volumes. The set reported with the extra volume for the maps was a Nicholson printing in blue embossed binding. Information/confirmation of this "4 Volume" Government bound set would be appreciated. Privately binding the maps into a separate volume is not uncommon. A Government prepared binding of these maps using the original boards/spine is scarce or perhaps rare.

Covers. For a description (with pictures) of the book covers, as issued, visit the covers page. The original covers have embossed images. The cover size (original binding) for the Tucker and Nicholson books is 30 x 24 cm - 12 x 9 1/2 in. The books are frequently found rebound, particularly Volume 1. Rebound books often have smaller covers and the pages have been trimmed in an effort to present a cleaner and more uniform appearance. Normally the original covers/spine are a green cloth however, they are also found in a blue-gray cloth. The boards have embossed illustrations (blind, no gilt) front and back and the spine has gilt stamped letters. The green cloth cover seems to predominate. I have confirmed a Volume 2, Tucker printing, and a Volume 3, Nicholson printing, with the original covers (embossed cover and stamped letters on the spine) in the blue-gray cloth. The covers of the 1857 Appleton unabridged volume 1 are brown blind stamped gilt tooled full morocco. The spine has five ridges (gold gilt) and the title "Perry's Expedition to Japan" in gold gilt and all three exposed edges are gold gilt. The covers of the Appleton volume 1 measure the same as the Tucker and Nicholson editions (30 x 24 cm).

 
General Comments.

This work is the detailed and profusely illustrated account of Perry's expedition to open Japan to the West.

Retail (Three Volume Set): $1,600-$5,000. This set is scarce. Retail prices vary much depending on condition and printer. The books are normally found in Fair or Good condition with significant problems (see comments regarding condition below) and often have been rebound or repaired. I would estimate that of an aggregate set value (3 volumes) the percentages are:

78% for Volume 1,
16% for Volume 2 and
 6% for Volume 3.

It appears that the Senate printing by Beverley Tucker is the scarcer of the two Government printings. Except for the lithographic plates and maps, you seldom see the individual components of an individual volume offered.

Condition (Three Volume Set). It is my experience that most books offered from the three volume set are in "Good" condition. It is common to find them described as having "intermittent/scattered/occasional/some foxing" - "occasional water staining" - "light/medium/heavy staining" - "browning" - "few pages with ragged edges" - "some loosening of plates" - "some plates loose (completely free of binding)" - "maps with tears at the folds" - "occasional offsetting from images/text" - "staining along the fore-edges" - "covers worn/rubbed/chipped/bumped scraped" - "insect holes on covers" - "somewhat worn but generally ____" (fill in the blank, generally too high a grade for the book) - "almost/near good" - "bullet holes and bloodstains"(just kidding!) and on and on. I have found that a "Good" or "Good+" is the norm for this book. To see an example of a "well worn" book from this set, click here. A genuine Very Good set with little or no staining, foxing, browning etc is, in my opinion, a very scarce item. I find that Volume 3 is generally the cleanest of the three as it was probably opened the least.

Condition of Individual Lithographs and Book Grading. Because a major portion of the value of Volumes 1 & 2 lies in the lithographic plates, I have established my own system to grade these plates. My system is discussed here. I rank them on a scale from 5 (Best or Above Average) to 3 (Average) to 1 (Poor or Below Standard). Missing or duplicate plates are ranked as 0. When I offer these books I assign a value to each lithographic plate and outline that plate by plate. The numbers are then totaled and divided by the number of plates for an overall average. Using this system, the buyer has a better idea of the contents of a given book.

Dates of Publication. Volume 1 was published in 1856 (1857 for Appleton). It was followed by Volume 3 in 1857. Volume 2 was published in 1858.

Illustrations in Volume 1 and 2.

The three volume set (particularly Volumes 1 and 2) is a fascinating study in the state of art of book illustration in the United States during the mid-1850s. The books were commercially produced at government expense and that removed a common limitation/impediment, financial constraints. Deep pockets were available to finance the art work/illustrations to be incorporated into the Narrative and the finished product is a testimony to that fact.

At this time, book illustrations were hand-created and executed by the craftsmen. The mechanical processes (photogravure, collotype and trichromatic half-tone) would not be widely employed until the 1870-80s. The tedious/labor intensive lithographic process was the premiere method (since the 1830s) for creating book illustrations and it was heavily employed in the Narrative. Various other forms of engraving (woodcut and steel) were also employed to create illustrations. The fine color plates brought to life by craftsmen certainly distinguish the Narrative as an excellent example of the highly sought American color books of the 19th century. The massive quantities of color illustrations produced by Government sponsored projects like this Narrative and the 13 volume Pacific Railroad Survey series were important factors in the growth of the lithographic industry in the mid-1800s. It has been estimated that the Pacific Railroad Survey books required the production of a total of twenty-one million plates (color and black and white) during the period of 1855-1860. While the Perry Narrative was on a much smaller scale, it also added a significant amount of color plate production to the printing industry.

Not only does the Narrative report the account of this critical historical mission, it documents the people, places and things encountered during the expedition lavishly with illustrations. An accomplish artist, Wilhelm Heine, and a noted daguerreotypist (early photographic process), Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. were selected to accompany and document the expedition. Their paintings and daguerreotypes (and the work of others also) were then converted to lithographs and engravings for the printed work.

In Volume 1 there are 89/90 handcrafted lithographs, each a work of art to itself. Of these lithographs, three are chromolithographs (multi-color), one is a black and white lithograph and the balance are tinted lithographs. The lithographs are not assigned page numbers. There are 537 numbered text pages in Volume 1. This is a ratio of approximately one (1) full plate/page lithographic illustration for every six (6) pages of text. In addition, the text pages are extensively illustrated with woodcut engravings, some approaching 1/2 to 3/4 page in size. Volumes 1 and 2 are supplemented with 20 maps ranging from single sheet size to large multi-fold format.

To better understand the lithographs from the Narrative, there are several detailed pages on this site that will be of assistance. These page are:

• Price Lists. (Individual lithographs are pictured, described and priced).


• General Characteristics (Size, format, tinting, production process etc).


• Condition/Rating (General condition and my rating system).


• Detailed Information (Measurement and varieties - litho by litho listing).


• Lithographs vrs. Engravings (Distinguishing lithographs from engravings).

The printing of the work illustrates the methods of our Government publishing house. The work cost $360,000, and 18,000 copies were printed, an extra set of 200, with special illustrations, being sent to the governments of the world. 15,000 copies were ordered by Congress for members, each receiving 50 sets of the work, 3,000 copies were allowed to the officers of the squadron, of which Perry received 1,000. He presented 500 copies to Dr. Hawks, chiefly for putting his name to the work and writing the preface; so that all the extra pay, bounty, reward, or pension the commodore received from a grateful country for his triumph was 500 copies of his own book. (The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Historical Publication Co., New York, Volume XIII, No.5, January-June, 1885, William Elliot Griffis article at pages 433-4)

The reference to the 200 special presentation sets by Griffis is the first and only time I have seen that mentioned and I have not confirmed the existence of such sets. I have found no information regarding the Appleton private printing of the unabridged edition of volume 1. I believe the printing number is very low. They are rarely seen on the market.

The "Banned" Lithograph. A very limited number of editions were published with a "nude bathing" (Public Bath at Simoda) lithograph. This lithograph was quickly deleted from Government published volumes due to public indignation at the nude figures in the scene. The scene was the inside of a public bath house in Japan where males, females and children have bathed together in the nude for centuries without concern. The lithograph is sometimes found unbound/extracted. When found in a bound volume 1, the print is generally found facing page 408. Either bound or unbound, this lithograph is scarce. Want to take a peek?

1. The 1856 & 1857 Appleton Abridged Books.

Perry, Commodore M. C.,
Hawks, Francis L., compiler:
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years of 1852, 1852, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, compiled by Francis L. Hawks, published by D. Appleton, New York, 1856 and 1857, 624 pp. Red cloth gold embossed covers and spine. Cover size - 18.5 x 26 cm -- 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in, 8vo. This edition is often referred to as the "First Trade Edition." The book has 9 full page steel engraving plates, 68 full page plates (woodcut), 11 maps and 44 text illustrations. The steel engraved plates and woodcut plates (77 pages) are not numbered and not included in the 624 page count. For detailed information about this book, to include a listing of all chapters and illustrations and pictures of the cover and spine, click here. To compare the engravings in this book with lithographs in the original three volume narrative, click here.

Plates, maps and illustrations in the 1856 & 1857 Abridged Books:

• 11 fold out maps,
• 9 steel engravings
• 68 woodcuts

2. The 1857, 1859 & 1860, Appleton, Americans in Japan, Abridged Books

Perry, Commodore M. C.,
Hawks, Francis L., compiler,
Tomes, Robert, editor:
The Americans in Japan: An Abridgment of the Government Narrative of the U.S. Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry. This book has 415 pages versus the 624 pages of the 1856 edition. There are an additional 8 page of advertisement for various Appleton books. The cover size is 19 x 14 cm -- 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in, 12mo (large). The covers are found in green and blue. The front and back boards have a blind embossed ornamental framework that may have once surrounded stamped (not embossed or impressed) images. The spine has gold gilt lettering and an illustration at the foot. The book has a total of 69 wood engravings. One engraving is a full page frontispiece. The other 68 are merged in the text and range from full page (2) to 1/4 page in size. The plates and the front cover are detailed here.

While this book is an abridged version of the original Narrative of the expedition, it is not merely a version that has had sections deleted. The editor, Tomes, clearly presents the information in a different light from the Narrative.

When viewing book listings it is often difficult to determine if they are referring to the original three volume printing of 1856 (Tucker or Nicholson) or the abridged Appleton printings of 1856, 1857, 1859 or 1860. The key is to look for "624" pages or "415 pages" and the size 8vo or terms such as "Trade" version, "first octavo edition" or "one volume" edition.

Available - 1857, Americans in Japan - Purchase Here

4. Later Editions (Not Appleton)

Printed in 1952 - abridged by Sidney Wallach, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1952, 276 pages + Forward, 10 black and white illustrations, 6 x 9 inch format [8vo - octavo], (pages 23 x 14.7 cm).

Printed in 1954 - abridged by Sidney Wallach, MacDonald London., 1954, 305 pages + Forward [8vo - octavo].

Printed in 1973 abridged by Robert Tomes, Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, Del., ISBN: 0842014063 (415 pages with illustrations - 23 cm) (A reprint of Americans in Japan).

Library of Congress Control Numbers:
01013866 - New York, London, D. Appleton & Co., 415 pages, 1857.
52011706 - New York, Coward-McCann, 305 pages, 1952.
72082113 - Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources, 415 pages, 1973

The reprint is of the Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer book of 1856. The page size is 21 x 27.8 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/10 in). The page size format size for the 1856 editions is larger, 23 x 29 cm. Page thickness is 5.5 mm. The prints have an obvious fine screen of small dots which clearly distinguish them from lithography. The differences are so great that the prints from this book are easily distinguished from those in the original editions.

Library of Congress Control Number: 67031019

Library of Congress Control Number: 68009578. ISBN: 0405189400

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U.S. Japan Expedition in 1854, Japanese title: Peri~Nippon Enseiki Zufu [Illustrations from Perry's Japan Expedition] Japan, Art Digest, Shimoda Museum, 255 pp, 18mo (4.25 x 5.75 in - 10.5 x 15 cm), soft cover with dust jacket. This book is almost all in Japanese except for captions to the print reproductions. It looks like it is a translation of parts of Volume 1 and 2 of the Narrative. The interesting and predominant feature of this book is that it reproduces, in color, all the lithographs and engravings from Volume 1 and Volume 2 except those that do not relate to Japan or Lew Chew (Okinawa). The treaty is also reproduced. Most of the horizontal format lithographs and engravings span 2 pages. The nature lithographs and engravings of animals, fish, birds, and shells are present. In total there are 91 items reproduced. Each plate has the English caption from the narrative.

For more information, click here.

ISBN: 4-7636-1586-6 C0171

Perry, Commodore M. C.
Hawks, Francis L., compiler:
In 2000, Volume 1 of the original narrative of Commodore Perry's expedition was re-published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York (537 pages with illustrations - 20 1/2 x 27.8cm). This soft cover book is titled Commodore M. C. Perry, Narrative of the Expedition to China Seas and Japan, 1852-4. This book is an inexpensive way to see the lithographs of the expedition and read the accounts that pertain to them. Available from BaxleyStamps - Order On-line.

Library of Congress No. 00022784
ISBN: 0-486-41133-8 (pbk)

Perry, Commodore M. C.
Hawks, Francis L., compiler:
This is a reprint/"Replica" of the abbreviated Narrative of the Perry Expedition that was published by Appleton in 1856. Part 1 contains from the title page through page 358. Part 2 continues from page 359 to page 624. The reprint is large 12mo (5 1/2 x 8 in) and is soft cover. This book should not to be confused with the 2000 Dover reprint (see above) of Volume 1 of the original Narrative.

 
 
  Books/Pamphlets/Prints Relating to the Perry Expedition -to Japan (in whole or in part).

1857, Aaron Haight Palmer, Documents and Facts Illustrating the Origin of the Mission to Japan, Authorized by the United States Government, May 10, 1851...., Washington, DC, Henry Polkinhorn, Printer, 1857, 8vo, 22 pp. This paper can be found online here.

For General Information on Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing- Room Companion, click here.

Earlier Similar Illustration

• 1852, May 15, Volume II, No. 20, page 305 (Illustration of Squadron). To see this illustration, click here.

Allen, Thomas:
Japan, and the Expedition Thereto, of the United States, a Discourse Delivered Before the Missouri Historical Society in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Jefferson City on December 22, 1852, St Louis, Printed at the Missouri Republican Office, 1853, small 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in - 14 x 21.5 cm), 34 pp. I have not confirmed the as issued state of this publication. However, it appears to have been as a pamphlet with no soft or hard cover. Thomas Allen was a publisher and printer in Washington, DC from 1837-42. At the time he gave this speech he was a state senator in Missouri. Allen was a entrepreneur and supporter of the transcontinental railroad. To see the title page, click here.

Later Edition:

• 1853, New York, Second Edition, 36 engraved plates, 1 color lithograph (US Naval Steamer Powhatan), 4to, 22 pages of publisher's ads, 216 pp.

Hino Kazuaki:
Some Casual Remarks About Japanese Defenses, 2 volume set, 1853-4, Japanese language, written by a subordinate to the Chief Japanese Commissioner, Hayashi. A contemporaneous account of the Perry Expedition from the Japanese perspective. On display at a Japan Expedition exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution in 1968.

In an auction in August of 2009 three Japan Expedition Press publications were sold. The mastheads read:

1. Japan Expedition Press, U.S.Steam Frigate Mississippi, at Sea, July 17, 1854, Compact Between [the United States and the] Kingdom of Lew Chew.
2. Japan Expedition Press, U.S.Steam Frigate Mississippi, at Sea, July 21, 1854, Additional Regulations.
3. Japan Expedition Press, U.S.Steam Frigate Mississippi, Hong Kong, Sept. 4, 1854, Sailing Directions for Yedo, By Lieut. Wm. L. Maury, U.S. Navy.

Williams, S. Wells:
Sketch of Lew Chew, published in The Missionary Herald, Volume L, No. 6, June 1854, Boston, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 8vo, paper wraps, string tied, 1854. A letter by Dr. Williams, who accompanied the Expedition as Commodore Perry's interpreter, regarding Okinawa. Such correspondence was officially banned by Commodore Perry. Dr. Williams describes Okinawa including comments on the geography, people, housing, dress, language religion, social customs, government and foreign policies.

A similar view is depicted in an 1855 lithograph by published by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. and drawn by Wilhelm Heine (First Landing of the Americans in Japan, click here). However, the view in this lithograph by Hatch & Severyn is less of a panoramic view and a more of a detailed depiction of the landing party as they approach the meeting hall.

More information.

• "Passing the Rubicon," click here.
• "First Landing of the Americans in Japan," click here.

This folio of lithographs should not be confused with the book and folio of ten (10) lithographs published by Wilhelm Heine in 1856. For more information on that material, click here.

Another Early Printing:

• 1855, Phillips (Sampson and Co), Boston, Derby, 576 pp, 8vo, earliest printed edition?

Later Printings:

• 1856, London, Sampson Low, 12mo, 377 pp
• 1859, Redfield, New York, 12mo, 377 pp.
• 1902, Phillips (Sampson and Company), Boston, (limited edition 500 printed, 612 pp
• 1902, Sanshosha, Tokyo, reprint of an 1861 printing (limited edition 500 printed)
• 1906, Chicago, C. McClurg, (xxxii), 401 pp

Subsequent Related Books:

• 1855, London, Sampson Low, American title-page retained before the English one, 539 pp.
• 1859, London, James Blackwood, edited by George Frederick Pardon (Visit to India, China and Japan), frontispiece is Canton engraving.
• 1860, G.P. Putnam & Sons, Japan, one volume in the "Bayard Taylor's Travels" series (see 1870s below also).
• 1864, G.P. Putnam & Sons, Visit to India, China and Japan, 539 pp.
• 1870, G.P. Putnam & Sons, Visit to India, China and Japan, 539 pp.
• 1872, New York, first volume of the series title "Library of Travel, Exploration & Adventures," Japan in Our Day "Compiled And Arranged By Bayard Taylor," Charles Scribner And Company, 12mo, 280 pp plus ads.
• 1872-1893 at least 16 editions printed, Japan in Our Day.
• 1880, London, James Blackwood, edited by George Frederick Pardon, Visit to India, China and Japan, 294 pp.
• 1870s-1889, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, "Bayard Taylor's Travels," India, China and Japan, one volume in "Bayard Taylor's Travels - Household" edition, a 10 volume compilation of Bayard Taylor's works. For more information on the 10 volume set, click here.
• 1885, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853, 12mo, 539 pp.
• 1892, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, "Bayard Taylor's Works," Visit to India, China and Japan, one volume in a 11 volume compilation of Bayard Taylor's works. For more information on the 11 volume set, click here.

Other Edition

• 1856, 2nd ed, Philadelphia, King & Baird, 12 illustrations, 212 pp.

You will find pages:

• 441-66 (Volume XII, Issue 70, March 1856) on-line (no illustrations) here.
  
• 733-56 (Volume XII, Issue 72, May 1856) on-line (no illustrations) here.

A facsimile of the book (24 pages) is currently available on a print on demand order basis.

These lithographs should not be confused with the very large lithographs published by E. Brown, in 1855. For more information on that material, click here.

Subsequent / Related Editions:

Dutch Language:

1856, Two Volumes. Reis Om De Wereld Naar Japan, Aan Boord van het Expeditieeskader Onder Commodore Perry, in de Jaren 1853, 1854, en 1855, Ondernomen op Last op Last van Regering der Vereenigde Staten, Rotterdam, Nijgh, red decorated cloth, Dutch text, lithograph title page, 10 black and white lithograph plates (at least 2 relate to Okinawa/Lew Chew), text illustrations, 486 pp.

German Language:

1860, One Volume (Related). Japan Und Seine Bewohner. Geschichtliche Ruckblicke und Ethnographische Schilderungen von Land und Lenten, Leipzig, 8vo, 383 pp. A history of Japan and the Dutch and at Nagasaki from the 17th century through the Perry Expedition.

Swedish Language:

1860, Carl Wingstedt, Japan och Dess Innebyggare, Stockholm, Huldbergs Bokhandel, 6 tinted lithographs, frontispiece and 17 black and white plates, 1 foldout lithographic map, 8vo, purple cloth with gilt lettering, 182 pp. The plates are 24 x 16 cm and image sizes generally 15.5 x 10 cm. The plates in this book were obviously drawn from images found in the original US Government narrative. This book is reported to be a translation from a German work titled Das Kaiserreich Japan, nach den besten vorhandenen Quellen geschildert von einem Vereine Gelehrter.

1871, Anton Baeckström, Ett besök i Japan och Kina jemte bilder från vägen dit öfver Goda-Hoppsudden, Bourbon, Nya Kaledonien, Manilla och Kokinkina. Anteckningar och minnen från en treårig tjenstgöring i franska flottan, Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, 8vo, brown blindstamped cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, 24 plates including (8 tinted lithographs & 16 full page woodcut plates), 39 text illustrations, 391 pp. Many of the illustrations are based on W. Heine's work.

French Language:

1859, One Volume Edition. Le Japon. Expédition du Commodore Perry Pendant les Annèes 1853, 1854 et 1855, Faite D'Après les Ordres du Gouvernement des États-Unis, Traduit de L'Allemand. Par A. Rolland, Bruxelles, H. Dumont, Libraire-Editeur, 1859, 8vo, two volumes bound into one, 10 tinted engraved plates + tinted engraved (on China paper) frontispiece, 304 and 315 pp.

1859-60, Two Volume Edition. Le Japon. Voyage Autour Du Monde. Expédition du Commodore Perry, pendant les années 1853, 1854 et 1855. Faite d'après les ordres du gouvernement des États-Unis, Bruxelles, H. Dumont, 1859-60, 8vo, two volumes, 10 tinted engraved plates on China pager + tinted engraved (on China paper) frontispiece, 304 and 316 pp.

1863, One Volume Edition. Le Japon. Expédition du Commodore Perry Pendant les Annèes 1853, 1854 et 1855, Faite D'Après les Ordres du Gouvernement des États-Unis, Traduit de L'Allemand. Par A. Rolland, Bruxelles - Lacroix, Verboeckoven et Cie, 1863, 8vo, two volumes bound into one, 10 tinted engraved plates + tinted engraved (on China paper) frontispiece, 304 and 315 pp.  

1863, Two Volume Edition (2nd edition). Le Japon. Voyage Autour Du Monde. Expédition du Commodore Perry, pendant les années 1853, 1854 et 1855. Faite d'après les ordres du gouvernement des États-Unis, Brussels, two volumes, 304 and 315 pp, 10 full page tinted engravings on china paper + similar frontispiece. This is a translation from German into French by A. Rolland. Volume 1 covers the expedition from the departure to the first visit to Japan to deliver the President's letter to the Emperor. Volume 2 covers the return to Japan for the answer and then the return to the United States via the Hawaii. The set contains 11 full page tinted engravings (from Heine's paintings) on China paper with the following general subjects: Frontispiece, 1 Canton, 4 Liou-Kou (Okinawa), 3 Japan, 1 Hawaii and 1 Straits of Magellen).

1863, One Volume Edition (2nd Edition combined into one volume). Le Japon. Voyage Autour Du Monde. Expédition du Commodore Perry, pendant les années 1853, 1854 et 1855. Faite d'après les ordres du gouvernement des États-Unis, Bruxelles, large 8vo ( 3/4 x 10 in), frontispiece (tinted engraving on China paper) + 304 pp + 5 full page tinted engravings on China paper and 315 pp + 5 full page tinted engravings on China paper. For more information and pictures of the engravings, click here.

Other Books by Wilhelm Heine:  

Heine Memoir
Available - Purchase Here
Heine, William
Frederic Trautmann (Translator, Introduction and Annotations):
1990, Translated from German to English. Portions of the original memoir were republished in With Perry to Japan, A Memoir by William Heine, Translated, with an Introduction and Annotations by Frederic Trautmann, University of Hawaii Press, 3/1/1990, 235 pp, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 format (8vo large), 16 pp of black and white illustrations - primarily of Heine's works. Trautmann provides a 5 page preface, 22 page introduction, 8 page chronology, 30 pages of notes, a 10 page bibliography and an 11 page index that supplement the Heine memoir. In total, Trautmann provides 86 pages of invaluable supplemental information which helps the reader understand the Heine memoir and place the expedition to Japan in historical perspective. The Heine memoir is not the choppy journal entry type style you often find in such literature. Instead, it is a rich and flowing narrative style chronicle of events by a key member of the expedition. ISBN 0-824-1258-1.

Ringgold/Rogers North Pacific Expedition (3 Volume Heine Set)
Available - Volumes 1 & 2 - Purchase Here
Heine, Wilhelm:

1858-9, Die Expedition in die Seen von Japan, China und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Calw. Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856, unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen, Leipzig, Otto Burfurtt, 1858-59, German language. Three volumes. Vol 1 - 330 pp, Vol 2 - 391 pp & Vol 3 - 424 pp, plus twenty-five lithographic and engraved plates (sixteen tinted), and six maps (five folding). Heine also published this book on the North Pacific Expedition under Commander Cadwalader Ringgold. This expedition, which was primarily a surveying and exploring voyage, set sail in June of 1853 for the Orient via the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia. The full page illustrations in this book depict Japanese and Chinese people and scenes and are all variants of illustrations (generally based on Heine's drawings) found in Volume 1 of the Narrative of the Perry Expedition to Japan. The set includes a large folding map (in two parts) of the coast of China and Japan and maps of the north Pacific (showing Alaska) and other Pacific charts. For more information on this three volume set, click here.

1860-2, German Expedition to Japan under Graf F. zu Eulenburg. Heine also accompanied the German Expedition which was the equivalent of the Perry Expedition. He apparently was not the primary artist for this expedition. The expedition is narrated in Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen which is discussed below.

1864, Eine Weltreise um die nordliche Hemisphere...Ostasiatischen Expedition in 1860-1861, 2 Volumes, Lepzig, Brockhaus.

1873 & 1880, Japan, Beitrage zur Kenntnis des Landes und Seiner Bewohner, Dresden, Selbstverlag des Verfassers, a large folio book published in three parts. Each part with 5 photographs and 5 sheets of text. In 1880 the book was published in 8vo format in 5 parts each containing 10 plates and 10 sheets of text. Forty of the plates illustrate the history, religion and natural history of Japan and the other 10 are views.

ca 1876, Yeddo. Nach Original-Skizzen, Dresden, George Glibers, small 12mo, not dated but ca 1876, two expeditions (US and Prussian) discussed in a 40 text page book with a panorama of Tokyo from a painting by Heine. The five plate are tipped in albumen photographs. This is believed to be the last book that Heine wrote. For more information on the book, click here.

The following set has illustrations by Heine.

1861, Die westliche Welt: Reise, by Alexander Mackay, 2 volumes, Leipzig, Kollmann.

• 1933, Felix Riesenberg, Currier and Ives Prints, Early Steamships, No. 4, New York & London, The Studio Publications, 8 color halftone facsimiles, tipped to plate, of Currier & Ives lithographs of steamships. Number 4 in a series reproducing noted Currier & Ives prints of ships. The first plate in this volume is the Mississippi in a Typhoon.

Subsequent editions:

• 1859, 2nd edition, London, The Religious Tract Society, frontispiece + 11 other engraved plates, 1 fold-out map, 18mo, 309 pp.
• 1861, London, The Religious Tract Society, 322 pp.

Subsequent editions:

• Available as "Print on Demand."
• Available on-line.

Subsequent edition:

• 1904, Scribners, NY, pictorial front cover and spine, green cloth, 306 pp.

Others Accounts and a Reprint:

Available - 1995 Reprint - Purchase Here

• 1890, John S. Sewall, New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 53, "The Invincible Armada in Japan," a two part article, pages 201-211 (September 1890 - No CCXLVI) and pages 331-339 (October 1890 - No CCXLVII). Sewall's account of the Perry Expedition to Japan.
• 1905, John S. Sewall,, Century Magazine, "With Perry In Japan, Personal Recollections of the Expedition of 1853-4," 3 illustrations, 12 pp.
• 1995, John S. Sewall, Dudden, Arthur Power (Editor), Chicago, R.R. Donnelley, December, 1995, hard cover, issued with no dust jacket, brown cloth, 16mo (11.3 x 17.5 cm, 4 1/2 x 7 in), 291 pp, 38 b/w and color illustrations, 12 maps. A majority of the illustrations are reproductions of lithographs in the original Narrative of the Perry Expedition to Japan. This is one in a series of the Lakeside Classics. Contains a Publisher's Preface, List of Illustrations and Historical Introduction (i-cv - 42 pp). The book is well executed and illustrations give you a good flavor of the illustrations found in the original Narrative.
• 1995, Gift Edition, 283 pp, given by publisher (Donnelley) as Christmas Gift to customers.

The Well's journal is said to have also been published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1910, 8vo, color frontispiece, illustrations, 263 pp. I have not confirmed this however.

Stand-alone Version and Reprint/Facsimile Edition

• 1859, Shanghai, "Lecture on Japan" in Journal North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society, First Series, No. 11, 8vo, pages 180 and following. May contain information from the Williams journal.
• 1973, Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, facsimile edition, 8vo, 259 pp. ISBN-10: 0842014101 - ISBN-13: 978-0842014106

Reprint:

Available - Purchase Here 1968, Sophia University in Cooperation with Charles E. Tuttle Company, edited by Shio Sakanishi, foreword by George Alexaneder Lensen, Sophia University in Cooperation with Charles E. Tuttle Company, 128 pp, 1 foldout plate in color and 19 black and white plates, 17.7 x 26.4 cm (6 3/4 10 1/2 in (8vo), blue decorative design boards (hardboard-cardboard type) and off-white cloth spine with title printed in gold, issued with dust jacket. For more information on the book, click here.

Porter, David
Cole, Allen B. (editor):
Captain David Porter's Proposed Expedition to the Pacific and Japan, 1815, published in The Pacific Historical Review, Volume IX, No. 1, March 1940 at pages 61-65. Perhaps the earliest public discussion proposing an American expedition to Japan.

Reprint.

• 1966, Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, portrait of Perry and ten other illustrations, two maps, 277 pp.

Subsequent Edition.

• 1995, Japan Library, 227 pp, paper wrappers.

This is the second book by Mr. Yamada, for more information on his first book (Okinawa, Her Beauties and Traditions, No. 1), click here.

Angle, Paul M. (editor):
Perry Opens Japan to the World, Chicago, published in the Chicago History, Volume III, Winter 1953-4, Number 10, published by the Chicago Historical Society, large 18mo (4 x 7 1/2 in), illustrated paper wraps, 5 black and white halftone illustrations, pages 289-303 of an issue that runs from pages 289-320. The Perry article commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Japan expedition. Most of the article is an excerpt from the original narrative. The article has an image of an oil painting in the Museum's collection by John Evans which is titled "Perry's squadron on it's way to Japan." This painting shows what appears to be the US Steam Frigate Susquehanna and a sails ship in rough seas. The front cover features the photograph of Commodore Perry published by E. Anthony, using a photograph negative from "Brady's National Portrait Gallery." To see the cover, click here.

• 1967, 3rd edition

Reprint:

• 1982, Greenwood Press, Westport, 208 pp.

Catton, Bruce (editor):
American Heritage, April 1958, Vol. 9, Number 3, New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 4to, pictorial hardcover. Article on the Perry Expedition to Japan.

An account of the Perry Expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the lively beginnings of people to people relations between Japan and America, based on contemporary records, with translations by Richard Lane, Ph.D. This book consists of a 30 page introductory essay regarding the Perry Expedition to Japan and 40 internal pages of the actual scrolls that were painted documenting his visit to Shimoda in 1854. Color scroll paintings are also on the inside of the front and back cover extending across to the adjoining page. Each painting has been translated and comments based on contemporary records provided. In the comments it is noted that these paintings fall in the category of folk art and typical of this art, the foreigners were depicted as they were "supposed" to look rather than the way they really were.

For more information on the book, to include distinguishing the limited edition from the public printings, click here.

Other Editions:

• 1963 ?? - Tuttle, Rutland, 1963, 1st ed (limited edition), color plates
• 1964 ?? - Tuttle, Rutland, 1964, 2nd ed, 40 color plates
• 1964 Weathermark, (John Weatherhill, Tokyo), 2nd Edition, 1964 - for sale June 1964, public edition, 40 color plates, 85 pp + end paper maps.
• 1965 Weathermark, (John Weatherhill, Tokyo), 2nd Edition, second printing, 1965 - for sale January, 1965 public edition.
• 1969 Random House, New York, 1969, actually a different book same title, same author, 626 pp.

In an auction in August of 2009 three Japan Expedition Press publications were sold. The mastheads read:

1. Japan Expedition Press, U.S.Steam Frigate Mississippi, at Sea, July 17, 1854, Compact Between [the United States and the] Kingdom of Lew Chew.
2. Japan Expedition Press, U.S.Steam Frigate Mississippi, at Sea, July 21, 1854, Additional Regulations.
3. Japan Expedition Press, U.S.Steam Frigate Mississippi, Hong Kong, Sept. 4, 1854, Sailing Directions for Yedo, By Lieut. Wm. L. Maury, U.S. Navy.

This book is part of a three part series.

• Volume 1, 1969, Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources, Basic Documents, 1854-1889, Volume One, Tokyo, Toyo Bunko, 221 pp.
• Volume 2, 1970, Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources, 1844-1882, Volume Two, Tokyo Toyo Bunko, 235 pp.
• Volume 3, 1972, Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources, Basic Documents, 1869-1894, Volume Three, Tokyo, Toyo Bunko, 273 pp.

The twenty-two repints are:

Books relating to the Perry Expedition to Japan (Reprints).
1. The Americans In Japan: An Abridgement of the Government Narrative of the U.S. Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry by Robert Tomes, 415 pp. First published in 1857

2. Documents and Facts Illustrating the Origin of The Mission To Japan, Authorized by Government of the United States, May 10th, 1851 and which finally resulted in the Treaty Concluded by Commodore M.C. Perry, U.S. Navy by Aaron Haight Palmer, 22 pp. First published in 1857.

3. A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan (1853-1854); Transactions of The Asiatic Society of Japan. Vol XXXVII, Part II by S Wells Williams edited by his son, F.W. Williams, 259 pp. First published in 1910.

 
All other books (Reprints).

4. Japan: As it Was and Is, Hildreth, 1855.
5. Japan and Her People, Steinmetz, 1859.
6. Nine Years In Nipon: Sketches of Japanese Life and Manners, Faulds, 1885.
7. The Intercourse Between The United States and Japan; An Historical Sketch, Inazo Nitobe, 1891.
8. Glimpses of the Orient; The Manners, Customs, Life and History of the People of China, Japan and Corea, White, 1897.
9. Under the Dragon Flag, Allan, 1898.
10. Kinse Shiriaku. A History of Japan, From the First Visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the Capture of Hakodate by the Mikado's Forces in 1869, Translated by Satow, 1906.
11. The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Bisland, 1910.
12. The Story of Old Japan, Longford, 1910.
13. The Japanese Nation; Its Land, Its People and Its Life, Nitobe, 1912.
14. The Far East Unveiled; An Inner History of Events in Japan and China in the Year 1916, Coleman, 1916.
15. Japan at First Hand; Her Islands, Their People, The Picturesque, The Real, Clarke, 1918.
16. The Making of Modern Japan, An Account of the Progress of Japan From Pre-Feudal Days to Constitutional Government & the Position of a Great Power, Gubbins, 1922.
17. Japan and the California Problem by T. Iyenaga and Kenoske Sato, 249 pp. First published in 1921.
18. Japan in Crisis; An Englishman's Impressions by H. Vere Redman, 223 pp. First published in 1935.
19. The First Japanese Mission to America (1860); Being a Diary Kept By a Member of the Embassy, translated into English by Fukuyama & Jackson, 1937.
20. Aliens in the East; A New History of Japan's Foreign Intercourse, Wildes, 1937.
21. Japan and the United States 1790 - 1853, Sakamki, 1939.
22. London To Tokyo, Sir Tilley, 1942.

Gregory, Hugh McCulloch (journal writer)
Burgess, Robert H. (editor):
The Sea Serpent Journal, Hugh McCulloch Gregory's Voyage Around the World in a Clipper Ship, 1854-55, New Port News, VA, University Press of Virginia, Mariners Museum, 1975, 8vo, blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket, chart endpapers, 24 black and white illustrations, 1 fold-out plate showing the 32 different sails on the clipper ship Sea Serpent, 142 pp. This is the log of a sailor aboard the "extreme clipper" Sea Serpent. It covers the ship's voyage around the world starting February 24, 1854 and ending on February 16, 1855. The voyage started with the New York to San Francisco route. It then proceeded across the Pacific, via Hawaii, to Hong Kong and Shanghai. The return route took her around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans back to New York. An excellent day by day account of life aboard a great clipper ship as she plied the New York, San Francisco and China trade. The journal is even more interesting because the voyage intersects in the China Seas and Hong Kong with the Perry Expedition squadron which had just successfully completed the Japan Expedition. The Sea Serpent arrived at Hong Kong on August 21, 1854. Gregory noted that nine American naval ships were in the Hong Kong Harbor at that time (Mississippi, Susquehanna, Powhatan, Macedonian, Vincennes, Supply, John Hancock, Porpoise and J. Fenimore Cooper). To see the dust jacket, click here. ISBN 0-8139-0589-3.

Rubenstein, I.H.:
Okinawa Naval Mission, Chicago, Waldain Press, 1976, large 12mo (5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in), light blue cloth covers, dust jacket - white with blue lettering), 73 pp. This book is actually a play. It is based upon the thesis (stated on the dust jacket) that Commodore Perry favored the annexation of Okinawa. It tracks this theory through the key roles of Commodore Perry, the Bettelheims (husband and wife), various Naval Officers of the Squadron, the Regent of Okinawa, and the Mayor of Naha. While the play does not have the obligatory "bath house" scene often found in books about this period, a couple of "Okinawan geishas" are added to the mix. Rubenstein, who served as the Director of the Legal Department in the US Military Government in Okinawa in 1947, sheds much light on the Bettelheim presence in Okinawa and the strong (hinted at but mostly undeveloped in the Official Narrative) possibility that the United States might use Okinawa as a base of military operations against mainland Japan or actually annex the island. The play follows through and touches on Bettelheim's return to the US through 1865. This book is a very interesting supplement to the rather dry and formal official and unofficial narratives of the expedition.

Sondheim, Stephen
Weidman, John
Wheller, Hugh:
Pacific Overtures, New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977, red cloth, black titles, 23 black and white production photographs, frontispiece drawing by Al Hirshfield, color photo-illustrated dust wrapper, 8vo, 128 pp. The play was first presented by Harold Prince and Ruth Mitchell at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York City on January 11, 1976. This was a Kabuki-styled musical concerning the Perry Expedition to Japan and the subsequent impact that it had on Japan. Perry is depicted as a lion like figure (complete with a flowing white mane) in the play. John Manjiro has a prominent role in the play. Act I is Perry's first visit to Japan and delivery of the President's letter. Act II is the second visit by Perry and conclusion of the treaty and the British, Russian, Dutch and French demands for similar treaties. This act also traces the impact of the Western influences on Japan zooming forward 120 years in a few short scenes (1973). To see the front cover of the dust jacket, click here. ISBN 0-396-07414-6.

Subsequent Editions (book club type).

• 1977, New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, hardcover.
• 1986, New York, New York Theatre Communications Group, hardcover.
• 1991, New York, New York Theatre Communications Group, paperback.

Shimoda, Histo Zushu:
U.S. Japan Expedition, Vol. 86, Kyoto, Kyoto Shoin, 1999, 256 pp. ISBN: 4763615866.  

Earlier Printings:

• 1987-1999, three earlier printings, same book but larger format (10 x 10 1/2 in - 25 x 26.3 cm). 1st printing (Aug 1, 1987) - 3,000 copies, 2nd printing (Nov 1, 1987) - 3,000 copies, 3rd printing (April 1, 1988) - 2,000 copies.

• Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy 1853-1868 (The Perry Convention. Documents 1-9)
• Griffis, William E., Matthew Calbraith Perry, chapters XXIII to XXXVI [Boston, Cupples and Hurd, 1887]
• Palmer, Aaron H., Documents and facts illustrating the origin of the mission to Japan, authorized by the United States Government, May 10, 1851. [Washington, DC: Henry Polkinhorn, Printer, 1857]
• Tomes, Robert, Americans in Japan - An abridgement of the government narrative of the United States expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry [New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857]
• Spalding, J. W., The Japanese Expedition: Japan and Around the World - an account of three visits to the Japanese Empire [New York: Redfield, 1857]
• Graff, Henry E. (Ed) Bluejackets with Perry in Japan. A day-by-day account.
• Sproston, John Glendy, The Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston [Tokyo: Sophia University, 1940]
• Williams, S. Wells, A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853-54 [Tokyo: Transactions, Asiatic Society of Japan, Series I, Vol. XXXVII, Part 2 (1910)]
• Pineau, Roger, The Japan Expedition, 1852-54. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry [Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968]
• Yamaguchi, Ken, Kinse Shiriaku; a history of Japan from the first visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the capture of Hakodate by the Mikado forces in 1869 (Rev ed. Tokyo: Naigwai Shuppan Kyokwai, 1906]
• Satow, Ernest (Tr), Japan 1853-1864. Genji Yume Monogatari [Tokyo: 1905]
• Kojima Matajiro, Commodore Perry's Expedition to Hakodate [Hakodate: Hakodate Kyodo Bunkakai, 1953]

  The pre-publication notice for this set is here. It appears to be accurate, except for the Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition listing. I am not certain that was actually incorporated into this set.

Sperling, Harvey B.:
The Opening of Japan and the Perry Expedition, published in Arts of Asia, Volume 33, Number 4, July-August 2003, Hong Kong, 2003, 4to, softcover with illustrated wraps, 29 text illustrations in color where the original was in color, pages 46-55, 11 pp. An excellent over view of the Perry Expedition accompanied and illustrated by many rarely seen maps, woodblocks and prints relating to the expedition. Illustrations include images from Japanese, European and American sources which span the period before the expedition through a few years after completion. Depicted is a very seldom seen image of a lithograph titled "The Steam-Frigate Mississippi in a Typhoon on October 7th, 1854 on her passage from Shimoda, Japan to the Sandwich Islands." The original work was executed by Wilhelm Heine and E. Brown, Jr. and subsequently printed by Britton & Ray in 1854. A rendition of the lithograph is found as a text illustration in the official narrative but the entire original work is unique and this is the only instance where I have seen it referenced or reproduced.

Johnson, Hiroko:
Commodore Perry and the Westernization of Japan, the 150th Anniversary of the Relationship between the Unites States and Japan, San Diego, Central Library, San Diego Public Library, 4to, illustrated paper wraps, 36 black and white illustrations, 5 page introduction, 33 pages of catalogue. This is the exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of the same title that was held July 10 through August 28, 2004 at the San Diego Central library. The exhibit contains illustrations from various media to include lithographs, drawings and paintings, albumen photographs and printed newspapers relevant to the opening and Westernization of Japan during the period from 1853 through approximately 1875. E. Brown's large lithograph depicting the first landing at Kurihama is the cover picture. Most of the exhibition items were provided by the Yokohama Archives of History. Exhibits depicted in the catalogue include a portrait of Perry (from W. Heine's Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition), articles from the London Illustrated News and Charles Wirgman's Japan Punch, E. Brown's large lithograph of the second landing of Perry in 1854. The focus of the exhibits are on Yokohama and the events and the industries that stand-out in the historical record of mid to late 19th century as Japan came under increasing Western influences.

Henry Walke's Classic Naval Lithograph Portfolio is perhaps the rarest American Naval print series. It is a series of eight plates depicting Naval actions in the Mexican War in the Spring and Summer of 1847. At this time Commodore M.C. Perry was in command of the Gulf Squadron conducting operations in the Mexican War. The first lithograph in the series shows the The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi which Perry would later employ as the centerpiece in his Japan Expedition squadron. Walke served in the war as the second in command of the U.S.S. Vesuvius, a bomb brig of the Gulf Squadron. During the war the Vesuvis participated in the blockade Laguna and supported landings at Tuxpan and Tabasco. Walke returned to the United States in October 1847 and immediately began work on his Naval lithograph portfolio. The lithographic prints were produced by the firm of Sarony and Major, New York, and distributed through Nathaniel Currier in 1848. All of the lithographs were after original art by Walke and he personally rendered five of them onto the lithograph stones. For more information on this portfolio, click here.

Amati, Scipione:
Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone, dell’antichita, nobilta, e valore del suo re Idate Masamune...E dell’ambasciate c’ha inviata alla S.ta di N.S. Papa Paolo V,e delli suoi successi, con altre varie cose di edificatione, e gusto spirituale dei lettori..., Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. The second Japanese embassy to Europe was based upon urging by the Franciscans (Franciscan missionary Luis Sotelo) in Japan. The first embassy, encouraged by the Jesuits in Japan, was sent in 1585. This account of this embassy to Rome is discussed in an article titled "A Sketch of the Life of Date Masamune and an Account of his Embassy to Rome" published in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1st Series, XXI (1893-94), pages 1-105.

• 1617, German translation.

Rodrigues Girão, João:
Histoire de ce qui s’est passé au Royaume du Japon l’annee 1624. Traducit d’Italien en François, par un Pere de la Cogmpagnie de Iesus, Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 8vo, 1628, French edition, 390 pp. Written outside Japan, this is Rodrigues Girão's account of the situation in Japan in 1624 and the plight of Christians there as government hostility to the religion grew and the policy of national seclusion began to form. A first edition was published in Rome in 1628.

Related Book:

• 2001, João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan, London, Hakluyt Society, Michael Cooper, editor, Hakluyt Series No. III, Volume 7, ISBN 0-904180-73-5, 8vo, blue cloth with dust jacket, 428 pp.

Pinto, Fernand Mendez
Cogan, Henry
Gent, H.C. (translation into English)
Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal: during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indiaes. With a relation and description of most of the places thereof; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war. Where he five times suffered shipwreck, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave. Written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue, and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain. Done into English by H.C. Gent, London, first English edition, printed for J. Macock, Henry Cripps and Lodowich Lloyd, 1653, large 8vo (28 x 19 cm), 326 pp. Pinto asserts that he entered Japan in 1542, introduced the firearms into the country in 1543 and founded the first Christian church in Japan. Pinto's claims have been soundly rejected over the years.

Other or Related Editions.

• 1670, London, Arnoldus Montanus & John Ogilby [translator], Thomas Johnson, Atlas Japannensis,Being Remarkable Addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. Containing a Description of Their Several Territories, Cities, Temples, and Fortresses; Their Religions, Laws, and Customs; Their Prodigious Wealth, and Gorgeous Habits; The Nature of their Soil, Plants, Beasts, Hills, Rivers, and Fountains. With The Character of the Ancient and Modern Japanners. Collected out of their several Writings and Journals .. English'd and Adorn'd with above a hundred several Sculptures ..., London, first English Edition, engraved frontispiece title, letter press title in red and black, folding engraved map, 24 double page or folding engrave plates, 70 engraved text illustrations.
• 1670, Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, German Edition. Denkwurdige Gesandtschafften Der Ost-Indischen Gesellschaft in den Vereinigten Niederlandernan Unterschiedliche Keyser von Japan Darinnen zu Finden Nicht Allein die Wunderlichen Begabnusse auf der Reyse der Niederlandischen Gesanten Sondern auch eine Beschreibung der Dorffer Festungen Stadte Landtschafften Gotzengebeue Gotzendienste Kleider-Trachten Heuser Thiere Gewachse Berge Brunnen als Auch der Alten und Itzigen Kriegstaten der Japaner, small folio, engraved pictorial title, 24 engraved double-page or folding plates, 70 engraved illustrations in text.
• 1680, Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, French Edition. Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers les Empereurs du Japon. Contenant plusieurs choses remarquables arrivées pendant le voyage des Ambassadeurs; et deplus, la description des villes, bourgs, châteaux, forteresses, temples & autres bâtimens: des animaux, des plantes, montagnes, riviéres, fonteines; des m urs, coutumes, religions & habillemens des Japonois: comme aussi leurs exploits de guerre, & les révolutions tant anciennes que modernes que ces peuples on essuyées. Le tout enriche de figures dessinées sur les lieux, & tiré des mémoires des Ambassadeurs de la compagnie, folio, 1 engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved double page folding map, 25 engraved plates (4 folding double page and 21 double page) and 71 engraved text illustrations.

Thevenot, Melchisedec:
Relations de divers Voyages Curieux... Nouvelle Edition, Augmentée de plusieurs Relations curieuses, Paris, Thomas Moette, 1696. Various travel narratives. Includes François Caron’s account of the missions in Japan and the "discovery" of Esdo (Hokkaido), with a map.

Other Editions and Charlevoix Books Regarding Japan:

• 1736, Paris, Chez Pierre-François Giffart, Histoire et description generale du Japon; ou l'on trouvera tout ce qu'on a pu apprendre de la nature & des productions du pays ... des habitans, du gouvernement & du commerce, des re volutions arrive es dans l'empire & dans la religion; & l'examen de tous les auteurs, qui ont e crit sur le me me sujet. Avec les fastes chronologiques de la decouverte du Nouveau Monde, 2 volume set, 4to, 667 pp and 746 pp, 8 engraved maps and plans (folding), 5 engraved plates (13 folding) and 3 large engraved head-pieces. A rewritten edition.
• 1737, Paris, 9 volume set.
• 1739, Paris, A. de Mame, 9 volume set (Juvenile Adaptation).
• 1754, Paris, Chez Giffart, 6 volumes, 10 x 17 cm, 417 pp and 14 folding plates (Tome 1), 429 pp (Tome 2), 558 pp and 1 folding plate (Tome 3), 534 pp (Tome 4), 479 pp (Tome 5) and 386 pp with 41 folding plates (Tome 6). A total of 56 engraved illustrations/maps. Sometimes referred as the Second Edition and the finest and most complete version of this work.
• 1828, Paris, De Rusand, Nouvelle Edition, 2 volumes, 469 pp & 467 pp.
• 1828-29, Belgium, Louvain, Vanlinthout et Vandenzande, Histoire de l'établissement, des progrès et de la décadence du christianisme dans l'empire du Japon, où l'on voit les différentes révolutions qui ont agité cette monarchie pendant plus d'un siècle., 2 volumes, 8vo, 410 pp & 540 pp. A part of published in the series, "Bibliothèque Catholique de la Belgique."
• 1839, Paris, A. de Mame et Cie, De Histoire et Description du Japon d'après P. de Charlevoix, 2 volumes, 308 pp and 288 pp.
• 1853, Lille, Lefort, Le Christianisme au Japon 1542-1660 d'apres le R.P. de Charlevoix.
• ca 1830, Paris, Bureau de la Bibliothèque Catholique, 2 volumes, 12mo, 362 pp & 476 pp.
• 1855, Liege, H. Dessain Imprimeur Libraire, 2 volumes, 8vo, 336 pp & 334 pp.
• 1858, Barcelona, Libreria Religiosa, text in Spanish, Historia Del Cristianismo en el Japon, 392 pp.
• Several other editions not listed above.

Related Books:

• 1689, first edition.
• 1738, Außführliche Geschichte der in dem äussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen japonischen Kirch, worinn die glückliche Vertilgung der Abgötterey, Einführung, Fortpflanzung, Verfolgung, und letztens gäntzliche Verbannung des Heiligen Römisch Catholischen Glaubens, in disem grossen Reich anjetzo aber auf viler Verlangen in die teutsche Sprach übersetzt worden, Augsburg, Frantz Anton Ilger, 1738, red and black title pages, folio, 2 volumes, German text, double column pages, 9 engraved plates, 534 pp and 559 pp. Often found bound into one book.

Other Editions.

• Several later editions, starting in 1756, as parts of world history sets.

Facsimile Sets of the German Edition:

• 1980, Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan, New York, Springer-Verlag, 4 volume set, leatherette folding case, limited edition.
• 1982, Geschichte Und Beschreibung von Japan. Aus den Original handschriften des Verfassers herausgegeben von Christian Wilhelm Dohm, Stuttgart, Brockhaus, 2 volumes. Volume 1 folding map, 310 pp. Volume 2: 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 1 folding plate, 8 black and white full page plates, 478 pp.

Earlier English & French Editions & Related Books:

• 1712, Amoenitatum Exoticarum Politico-Physico-Medicarum Fasciculi V, Quibus Continentur Variae Relationes, ..., Lemgoviae, a botanical account relating to Japan, frontispiece, folding map, 15 folding engravings, 60 full-page engravings, 9 text illustrations. Published almost 20 years after Kaempfer's return from Japan, this books deals with his extensive travels, including Japan. Rare.
• 1727, History of Japan, Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State and Government of that Empire; of Its Temples, Palaces, Castles and other Buildings; of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; of the Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; of the Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of Their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in High-Dutch by Engelbertus Kiempfer ... and Translated from His Original Manuscript Never Before Printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... with the Life of the Author, and an Introduction...., London (for Hans Sloane), two volumes, folio, with an engraved additional title page in Latin in Volume 1 (dated 1727) and 45 engraved plates and maps/plans (many double page or folding), Volume 1 - pages 1~392, Volume 2 - pages 393-612, 75 pp appendix, translated from the German language for Hans Sloane by J.G. Scheuchzer. Printed on uncut rag paper for Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis.
• 1728, Being Part of an Authentick Journal of a Voyage to Japan, made by the English in the year 1673?, appendix to the 1727 translation by J.G. Scheuchzer.
• 1729, Histoire Naturelle, Civile, et Ecclésiastique de l'Empire du Japon, The Hague, La Haye P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1829, 2 volumes, first French Edition, folio, engraved title vignettes, engraved headpiece on first page of dedication, sometimes extra engraved title to volume 1 and 45 engraved plates and maps, mostly folding. For more information on this set, click, here.
  
• 1732, 1st French edition, Histoire Naturelle, Civile, et Ecclesiastique de l’Empire du Japon, Amsterdam, Herman Uytwerf, 3 volumes (312 pp, 416 pp, 379 pp), frontispiece engraving, 13 folding copper-engraved maps and plans, 12mo (10.5 x 16.5 cm).
• 1733, 2nd Dutch edition, De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat ryk, van deszelfs tempels, paleysen, kasteelen en andere gebouwen;van deszelfs metalen, mineralen, boomen, planten, dieren, vogelen en visschen...benevens eene beschryving van het Koningryk Siam, Amsterdam, Jan Roman de Jonge, 1 volumes, folio, 48 engraved plates, 500 pp.
• 1747-9, Engelbrecht Kämpfer's Beschreibung des Japonischen Reiches, (Engelbrecht Kämpfer's Description of the Japanese Empire) Rostock, Germany, by Johann Christian Koppe, part of Volume 4 of a four volume set, 552 pages in Volume 4. Kämpfer's map of Japan and plan of Nagasaki are in the work. The balance of the set Ausführliche Beschreibung des Chinesischen Reichs und der grossen Tartarey (1747-9) relates to China. For more information on the complete set, click here. This is a translation back to German of the 1727 English language book. Scarce.
• 1758, 2nd French edition, Histoire Naturelle, Civile et Ecclésiastique de L'Empire du Japon: Compofée en Allemand par Engelbert Kaempfer, Docteur en Medecine a Lemgow, & traduite en François fur la Version Angloise de Jean-Gaspar Scheuchzer, Membre de la Société Roiale, & du Collège des Médecins, à Londres, La Haye, Gosse & Neaulme and Amsterdam, Uytwerf, 3 volumes (312 pp, 416 pp, 379 pp), 12mo (105 x 170 mm), 13 folding copper engravings and maps (3, 2, & 8, pocket size, abbreviated second French edition.
• 1853, An Account of Japan by Engelbert Koempfer, M.D., Physician to the Dutch Embassy at the Emperor's Court, London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co., "abridged and arranged from the translation by J.G. Scheuchzer," Port of Nagasaki and ships plate as frontispiece, illustrated title page ("Japanese Family"), double column text, 105 pp. A part of "The Universal Library" and bound with "Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchison" (139 pages).
• 1906, The History of Japan. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-1692 by Engelbert Kaempfer, M. D. Physician ot the Dutch Embassy to the Emperor's Court and translated by J. G. Scheuchzer, F. R. S., Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, 3 volumes, 8vo (23 x 15 cm), limited edition (1000 ccy), 337 pp, 397 pp and 386 pp, with numerous illustrations and maps (162 - some folding). For more information on this book set, click here.
• 1929, The History of Japan, Kyoto, Koseikaku, 2 volumes bound in one, a part of the Historia Imperii Japonica series, a reprint of the 1727 London edition. This reprint was limited to 150 numbered copies.
• 1971, History of Japan, New York, AMS Press, a facsimile set, of the 1906 set published by James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, no dust jacket, 8vo, gray cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Sold as a set of three volumes. Set (ISBN 0-404-03630-9), Volume 1 only (ISBN 0-404-03631-7) or Volume 2 only (ISBN: 0-404-03632-5) and Volume 3 only (0-404-03633-3).
• 2000, De Beschrijving van Japan, a reprint, Franeker, Dutch language, 500 pp. A facsimile of the Dutch language version.

Reprint:

• 1933

Buchoz, (Pierre-Joseph):
Herbier Colorié du Japon faisant suite `a l´Herbier colorié des Plantes de la Chine, gravé d´apr`es des Dessins colori`es au Japon et dirigé par les soins de J.P. Buchoz, auteur de l´Histoire générale et oeconomique des 3 Regnes, Paris, Chez Auter, 1792, folion 39 hand colored engravings, no text. Japanese flora. A rare book.

Similar Books:

• 1788-93, Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, forrattad Aren 1770-1779 [Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia between the years 1770 and 1779, Sweden, Uppsala, Joh. Edman, 1788, first edition of this set, text in Swedish language, 12mo (18 x 12 cm), 4 volumes (irregular pagination), 11 plates.
• 1793-95, London, Richardson, 1st English edition, 8vo, 11 plates (one folding). A 4 volume set, volume 3 (285 pp) and volume 4 (293). The Japan portion of the book is found on pages 137-180 of volume 3. 1st English Edition.
• 1794, Voyage en Afrique et en Asie, Principalement au Japon Pendant les Années 1770-1779. Servant de Suite au Voyage de D. Sparrman. Traduit du Suedois, avec des Notes du Traducteur, Paris, Chez Fuchs, 1794, 8vo, 532 pp. Extensive description of Nagasaki.
• 1796, Paris, Benoit Dandre, Garnery, Obre, French edition Voyages de C(arl) P(eter) Thunberg, au Japon, Par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance, Les Iles de la Sonde, &c. Traduits, Rediges et Augmentes de Notes Considerables sur la Religion, le Gouvernment, le Commerce, l'Industrie et des Langues de ces Differentes Contrees, Particulierement sur le Javan et le Malai; par L. Langles, Conservateur des Manuscrits Orientaux de la Bibliothèque Nationale, et Professeur de Persan, de Tatar-Mantchou, &c. a la meme Bibliotheque; et Revus, Quant a la Partie d'Histoire Naturelle, par J. B. Lamarck, Professeur d'Entomologie et d'Helmentologie au Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Avec des Planches, 8vo, 4 volumes, engraved frontis portrait and twenty eight plates five of which are folding, 417, 430, 445 & 462 pp + index. Volumes 1 & 2 are a travelogue to the Netherlands and from the Netherlands via the Cape of Good Hope to Japan. Volumes 3 & 4 deal with commerce between China and Japan and Nagasaki and Deshima.
• 1796, as above set but with slightly different title, Voyages au JAPON, par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les Iles de la Sonde, &c Traduits, rédigés et augmentés de notes considérables sur la Religion, le Gouvernement, le Commerce, l'Industrie et les Langues de ces différentes contrées, particulièrement sur le Javan et le Malai, par M. Langlès et revus, quant à la partie d'Histoire naturelle, par J. B. Lamarck.
• 1796, London, Rivington, 1796, 8vo, 2nd English edition (see above).
• 1796, London, Rivington, 1796, large 12mo, 3nd English edition, (volume 3, 285 pp + 13 pp Index, + 31 pp Vocabulary) as 2nd English edition.
• 1801, Travels in Japan and Other Countries, Philadelphia, Joseph & James, 15 cm , 107 pp.

Broughton, William Robert:
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean in which the Coast of Asia, from the Lat. of 35' North to the Lat. of 52' North, the Island Insu, the North, the South and East Coasts of Japan, the Lieuchieux and the Adjacent Isles, as well as the Coast of Corea, have been Examined and Surveyed. Performed in his Majesty's Sloop Providence and Her Tender in the Years 1795, 1796, 1797 and 1798, London, John Murray & Co., 1804, 8vo (8 x 10 1/4 in), 9 maps & plates, 393 pp. This is the narrative of the voyage performed in his Majesty's Sloop Providence. Broughton sailed from England to Rio de Janeiro, from there to Australia, Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands. Then he sailed up the North-West coast of America, to Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. He then sailed back down the California coast and across the Pacific to Japan and spent almost four years charting the northeast coasts of Asia and of the Japanese islands. The book contains panoramic sketches of Okinawa which may well be the first published Western illustrations of Okinawa. Plates and charts relating to Okinawa are 1) Chart from the South Point of Formoso to Great Lieuchieux, including the Islands of Madjicosemah, 2) Sketch of Napachan Roads, Island of Lieuchieux, 3) Panoramic Sketch of the Bay, Town and Entrance of the Harbour of Napachan on the Island of Likeo or Loochoo. The visit to the Okinawa is covered in 26 pages and spans the period from June 27, 1797 to July 15, 1797. [Note: I have seen this book described as printed by T. Cadell and W. Davies and 4to format].

Subsequent Edition/Reprint:

• 1807, Voyage de Découvertes dans la Partie Septentrionale de l'Océan Pacifique, fait par le Capitaine, Commandant la corvette de S.M.B. la Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798; Dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie, depuis le 35 degré nord, jusqu'au 52; l'île d'Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes Nord, Est et Sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée. Traduit par ordre de S.E. le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, par J.B.B. E(yriès), Paris, Dentu, French language, 2 volumes, 243 pp and 341 pages, with 7 maps and plates (6 of which are fold-out). Contains a large folding engraved map of the North-East coast of Asia and Japan and the Japanese islands, folding engraved map of the islands Likeujo (Okinawa) and Madjicosemah (Miyako), plans of the harbors of Chosan in Corea, of Napachan on Likeujo (Okinawa) and Endermo on Jesso on large folding engraved plate, views of coastlines and harbors of Okinawa on 3 folding plates, and full-page engraved plate showing the costume of Volcano Bay. For more information on this set, click here. Scarce.
  
• 1967, N. Israel / Da Capo Press , Amsterdam and New York, 394 pages. A facsimile edition, part 13 of the Bibliotheca Australiana series.

Gouan, Prof. Antoine:
Description du Gingko Biloba, dit Noyer du Japon, A. Montpelier, Delmas, 1812, 8vo, phamplet, one folding plate, 12 pp.

Subsequent Editions:

• 1968, Amsterdam & New York, N. Israel & DaCapo Press, facsimile edition of the 1813 Murray edition, 3 volumes, 314 pp, 404 pp and atlas portfolio with maps/plates (104 plates and maps), 4to.
• 1974, Amsterdam & New York, N. Israel & DaCapo Press, as above.

Other voyages in the book are the Ninth voyage of the East India Company in 1612 by Commander Thomas Best; the Eleventh Voyage of the English East India Company in 1612 in the "Salomon;" the Twelfth voyage of the East India Company in 1613 by Captain Newport; numerous voyages to India between 1613-1616 and "Observations during a Residence in the Island of Chusan (off China), in 1701 by Dr James Cunningham; with some early Notices respecting China" (pages 549-562).

• 1817, German version, Leipzig, Bey Paul Gotthelf Kummer, Erzahlung des Russischen Flott-Capitains Rikord von Seiner Fahrt nach den Japanischen Kusten in den Jahren 1812 und 1813 und von Seinen Unterhandlungen mit den Japanern: Gedruckt auf Allerhochten Befehl St. Petersburg 1816.

Subsequent Editions:

• 1818, London, John Murray, two volumes, 8vo. Volume I, portrait and 1 folding map, 442 pp. Volume II, 1 folding map, 359 pp. For more information on Volume II, click here.
• 1818, Philadelphia, A. Small, large folding map (Donnai River), 5 plates, 8vo, 382 pp, first US edition.
• 1851, London, William Tegg and Co., title reads Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-Ho to the Return to Canton, A New Edition, frontispiece map, 128 pp. Contains a note dated July 1840 noting "...now given to the public in a cheap form...." Issued as paperback and often found bound with other books. Often found bound with other books. For information on this book in a consolidated publication, click here.
• Elibron Classics reprint, paperback.

McLeod traveled aboard the Alceste. Another account of the voyage was published the next year by Basil Hall who sailed aboard the Lyra.

Other Editions:

• 1818 (Second), title shortened to: Narrative of a Voyage, in His Majesty's Late Ship Alceste Along the Coast of Corea to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck, John Murray, London, engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 hand colored engraved plates, 4 plates as found in 1st edition plus "Fort Maxwell," 323 pp., small 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in). For more information on this book, click here.
• 1818 (First American Edition), Philadelphia, M. Carey & Son, 8vo, 4 plates, 224 pp. Plates include "Lewchewan Chief and Attendants" and "The Garden at Lewchew."
• 1819 (Third), John Murray, London, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 hand colored plates and 1 map, 339 pp. This is the first edition of this book with a map.
• 1820 (Fourth), John Murray, London, 8vo (21.4 x 12.8 cm), 1 engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 hand colored engraved plates and 1 folding map, 339 pp.

  Translations Into Other Languages:

• 1818, Dutch Version, Zeereis van het Engelsche Oorlogsfregat de "Alceste" Langs de Stranden van Corea, Naar het Eiland Loochoo: Benevens een Verhaal Betreffende de Dchipbreuk van Genoemde Gregat, iets over Java, Aanloop op de Kaap de Goede Hoop en St. Helena ..., Rotterdam, Arbon & Krap, Dutch edition, translated from English into Dutch, 215 pp.
• 1818, French Version, Voyage du Capitaine Maxwell, commandant l'Alceste, vaisseau de S.M.B., sur la Mer Jaune, le long des côtes de la Corée, et dans les îles de Liou-Tchiou, avec la relation de son naufrage dans le détroit de Gaspar, ayant à bord lambasted anglaise, à son retour de Chine. Par John Mac-Leod, chirurgien de l'équipage., Paris, Gide fils Paris, frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, 359 pp.
• 1820, Swedish Version, Captaine Maxwells resa på Gula Hafvet, längs kusterne af Corea och öarne Liu-tchiu; jemte berättelse om dess skeppsbrott uti Gasparsund, då Engelska Ambassaden på återresan ifrån Sina var om bord på skeppet Alcest, Upsala, Palmbald & Co., anonymous translation, apparently from a French version of the book, 168 pp

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• 1818, Edinburgh Review, Volume XXX, No 60, September 1818, Article V, pages 388-406 (19 pp), "Shipwrecks of the Alceste and the Medusa." The shipwreck of the Alceste on the return voyage to England is covered in McLeod's book. This article compares that shipwreck and the actions of the crew to a similar shipwreck of the French frigate Meduse.

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McCune, Shannon (Introduction):
The Voyage of the Alcesta to the Ryukyus and Southeast Asia, 1816-1817. This is a facsimile edition of the above book which was printed in 1963 by C.E. Tuttle Co, Rutland, Vt. It has 288 pages and contains a fold out map and 5 plates including Lewchew Chief and Garden of the Temple (at Lew Chew). Printed in photo-offset. Measures 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in (14 x 22 cm). Issued with dust jacket.

Library of Congress Control Number: 63-22228.

Subsequent Edition:

• 1819, London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, second edition, 4to, as above.

Hall traveled aboard the Lyra. Another account of the voyage was published the year before by John McLeod (Mac Leod) who sailed aboard the Alceste.

Numerous Other Editions:

• 1818, Philadelphia, Abraham Small, Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-choo Island: With an Appendix Containing Charts, and Various Hydrographical and Scientific Notices, 8vo (14 x 22 cm), light blue paper covered boards, gray paper covered spine, titles on paper spine labels, two full page frontis maps/charts, 2 ads, no plates as in the 1818 London edition, appendix abbreviated, first American edition, 201 pp.
• 1818, Dutch Version, Verhaal Eener Ontdekkingsreis Langs de Westkust van Corea en het Groot Loo Choo Eiland in de Japansche Zee / Basil Hall; uit het Engelsch, Rotterdam, Arbon & Krap, Dutch edition, 286 pp.
• 1820, London, Murray, 339 pp, one colored engraved frontispiece, two maps and 9 engraved plates (5 hand colored), 8vo (214 x 128 mm), stated as third edition.
• 1820, Voyage to Corea and the Island of loo-Choo, London, Murray, 259 pp, one colored engraved frontispiece, one folding map and 3 engraved plates. "The present edition is confined to the narrative alone, to the exclusion of all technical and other details not calculated to interest the general reader."
• 1820, Milan, Giambattista Sonzogno, Italian version, translated by F. Contarini, Relazione d'un Viaggio di Scoperte Alla Costa Occidentale Della Corea Eo Alla Grand'Isola Lu-Tsciu, volume XXVI in the Raccolta de Viaggi set, 12mo (4 x 7 in), 284 pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Captain Hall, foldout map of the southwest coast of Okinawa, 5 hand colored plates.
• 1826, Edinburgh, Volume I, 322 pp, 32mo (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in - 9.5 x15.5 cm), only illustration is an engraved vignette on the consolidated title page. The Loo-Choo account is in Volume I of this three volume set. Volume II and III pertain to Chili, Peru and Mexico. Often referred to as the 5th edition. For more information on this three volume set, click here.
• 1831, London, Murray, 7 colour plates + 2 b/w engraved plates + 5 chart (2 folding), paper covered boards, 222 pp.
• 1840, London, Moxon, Narrative of a Voyage to Java, China, and the Great Loo-Choo Island: With Accounts of Sir Murray Maxwel's Attack on the Chinese Batteries & of An Interview With Napoleon Buonaparte, at St. Helena, ribbed brown cloth, gilt title on front board, 81 pages printed in double columns, 2 maps. While the title page carries the date of 1840, some are found with a roman numeral date of 1841 (2nd edition?)
• 1865, London, William Tegg & Co., title same as 1840 edition above, 2 maps, 81 pp. Considered to be a paperback. Contains none of the plates found in the earlier editions. Does not contain the appendix. Generally found bound with other travel narratives to form a consolidated book. These books are 8vo and printed in double column format. They provide a convenient, easy to read and inexpensive edition of relatively expensive books. For information on a typical book in a consolidated publication, click here.
• 1969, Milano, A. Martello Editore, 12mo, 313 pp. Reprint of the 1820 Italian verison.

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• 1818, Edinburgh Review, Volume XXIX, No 58, February 1818, pages 475-498 (22 pp), review of the book. For more information, click here.
• 1818, Quarterly Review, London, John Murray, Volume 18, Number 36 (January, 1818), Article II, pages 308-24.

Other Editions/Related Books & Articles:

• 1817, Begebenheiten des Capitains von der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine Golownin, in der Gefangenschaft bei den Japanern in den Jahren 1811, 1812 und 1813, nebst seinen Bermerkungen über das das japanische Reich und Volk und einem Anhange des Capitains Rikord, Leipzig, G. Fleischer, 2 volumes, 1st edition, German language, 8vo, volume 1 - 480 pp, volume 2 - 268 pp.
• 1818, Voyage de capitaine de vaisseau de la marine impériale de Russie, contenant le récit de sa captivité chez les Japonois, pendant les années 1811, 1812 et 1813, et ses observations sur l''empire du Japon; suivi de la relation du voyage de M. Ricord, capitaine de vaisseau de la marine impériale de Russie, aux côtes du Japon en 1812 et 1813, etc.; traduit sur la version Allemande; par J.-B.-B. Eyriès, Paris, Gide Fils, 2 volumes, French language, engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved map of the Kurile Archipelago by G. Lemaitre, 396 pp and 452 pp.
• 1819, London, Henry Colburn, Recollections of Japan,see below. Often bound with the 1818 volumes 1 and 2.
• 1824, London, Henry Colburn, Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan During the Years 1811, 1812 and 1813: with Observations on the Country and the People, Second Edition, three volumes, 23.5 x 14.6 cm, Vol 1 - 315 pp, Vol 2 - 356 pp and Vol 3 - 302 pp.
• 1852, London, 2 volumes, Japan and the Japanese, Comprising the Narrative of a Captivity in Japan and an Account of British Commercial Intercourse with that Country, New and Revised Edition, added Editor's Preface by "S.R.", 12mo (5 x 7 3/4 in), Volume 1 - 334 pp.
• 1853, London, Henry Colburn, 2 volumes, 8vo, 334 pp & 286 pp.
• 1973, London/Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, three volumes, Vol 1 - 316 pp, Vol 2 - 358 pp and Vol 3 - 302 pp. A facsimile of the 1824 London reprint.

• 1819, Edinburgh Review, Volume XXII, No. XILLL pages 107-129, 22 pp, review of the Narrative. For more information, click here.

Breton, M. (Breton de la Martiniere):
Le Japon, ou, Moeurs, Usages et Costumes des Habitans de cet Empire: D'après Les Relations Récentes de Krusenstern, Langsdorf, Titzing, etc.,et ce que les Voyageurs Precedens Offrent de Plus Avere; Suivi de la Relation du Voyage et de la Captivite du Caitaine Russe Golownin, Paris, A. Nepveu, 1818, 24mo (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in - 13.1 x 8.75 cm), Volume I: 187 pp, Volume II: 231 pp, Volume III: 226 pp, Volume IV: 272 pp. Title page states 51 illustrations.

Subsequent Edition:

• 1819, often found bound with Narrative of My Captivity in Japan, 1818, volumes I & II.
• 1824

Other Editions/Related Editions:

• 1819, Cérémonies Usitées en Japon Pour les Mariages et les Funérailles, Paris, French publication of Titsingh's notes and manuscripts regarding Japan.
• 1820, Mémoires et Anecdotes de la Dynastie Regnante des Djogouns, Paris, A. Nepveu, folding plate as frontis, two folding plans and one folding chart. Another French publication of Titsingh's notes and manuscripts regarding Japan.
• 1822, Cérémonies Usitées au Japon Pour les Mariages, les Funérailles et les Principales Fêtes de l'année; Suivies d'anecdotes sur la Dynastie Régnante des Souverains de cet Empire, Ouvrage traduit du Japonais par M. feu Titsingh, Ambassadeur de Hollande en Chine. Orne de 24 Gravures, Faites d'apres des Peintures Japonaises, Paris, Nepveu, 12mo, 3 volumes.
• 1824-5, Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijkse plegtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen. De Gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat Rijk. Uit het Engels, s-Gravenhage, J. Allart, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 handcolored engraved title pages and 4 colored aquatint illustrations (including a plan of the Dutch factory at Decima, 250 pp & 264 pp. This is a Dutch translation of the English book.

• 1822, Paris, Nepveu, 12mo, 2 volumes, 10 plates [4 (3 handcolored) in volume 1 and 6 (4 handcolored) in volume 2], decorated paper wraps, 272 pp, 214 pp.

Subsequent Editions:

• 1832, Carey and Lea, Philadelphia, 493 pages, 8vo?, 1 volume, 493 pp.
• Book Club of California edition, 1941, Grabhorn Press (Account of Visit to California portion only), 84 pp, 350 copies printed, 12.25 x 9.25 in.
• Reprint: 1968, N. Israel, Amsterdam - Da Capo Press, New York, two volumes (6 x 8.5 in - 8vo - small.
• Reprint: 1973, Hakluyt Society at the University Press, Subtitle: The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. Blossom, 1825-1828, 259 pp, Editor : Barry M. Gough.

• 1833, Amsterdam, J. Müller, 1833, 4to, decorated paper covered boards, 15 uncolored plates, 320 pp.
• 1977, facsimile edition.

Volume I, May 1832 - April 1833
Volume II, May 1833 - April 1834
Volume III, May 1834 - April 1835
Volume IV, May 1835 - April 1836
Volume V, May 1836 - April 1837
Volume VI, May 1837 - April 1838
Volume VII, May 1838 - April 1939
Volume VIII, May 1839 - April 1840
Volume IX, May 1840 - December 1940
Volume X-XX, January - December of the Years 1841-1851

Facsimile Editions:

• 1943, Tokyo, facsimile, Maruzen.
• 2002~4, Boston, facsimile, Adamant Media, Elibron Classics
• Print on demand versions currently available

Subsequent Printings (illustrations):

• 1897, Nippon, Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, Wurzburg and Leipzig, 2 volumes generally found bound into one book. Apparently the illustrations (perhaps the entire book) were reprinted. Illustrations measure 54 x 36 cm with an image area of approximately 33 x 18 cm.

1934, facsimile edition, Tokyo, Tanaka, Folio (38 x 28 cm), 120 color plates, 141 pp.

• 1834, London, Fellowes, 2nd edition, 296 pp.

• 1836, Souvenirs du Japon, published in Nouvelles Annales de Voyages des Sciences and Geographques..., Septembre 1836, "XVIII Annee de la Collection," Librairie De Gide Fils, Paris, 1836, thin paper wraps, large 12mo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in), untrimmed, pages 257-300. A French translation of Doeff's work. This volume also contains "Journal d'un Voyage sur Le Massarouni en 1831" by William Hilhouse (pages 301-332), "Un Tour en Sicile" (pages 333-342) and "Voyage en Norvege fait dans lete de 1832" by M.F.W. Otte (pages 343-351). This book contains pages 257-399 in this series of publications. To see the covers, click here.

Other Editions/On-Line Edition

• 1833, The Journal of Two Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831-1832; the First in a Chinese Junk, the Second in the British Ship Lord Amherst; with Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands, New York, John P. Haven, 12mo, blue/purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 332 pp.
• 1834, A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern Comprising a Retrospect of the Foreign Intercourse and Trade with China. Illustrated by a New and Corrected Map of the Empire, London, Smith, Elder & Co, 2 volumes, large folding map, 11 appendices (10 are folding statistical tables), 435 pp and 463 pp.
• 1834, London, Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, 1834, 2nd edition, 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 347 pp.
• 1835, Dutch Edition, Reizen Langs de Kusien van China, en bezoek op Corea, en de Loo-choo-eilanden, in de Jaren 1832 en 1833, door K. Gutzlaff, Benevens een Overzigl van China en Siam en van de Verrigtingen der Protestantsche Zendelingen, in Deze en Aangrenzende Laden, door W. Ellis, en twee Andere Historische Bijlagen, Rotterdam, M. Wijt & Zonen, 1835, Dutch edition of the book first published in 1834, 8vo, 354 pp.
• 1835, German edition, Missionars der Evangelischen Kirche, Dreijähriger Aufenthalt im Königreich Siam : Nebst einer Kurzen Beschreibung Seiner drei Reisen in den Seeprovinzen Chinas in den Jahren 1831-1833, Basel.
• 1836, Swedish edition (translated from the 1835 German edition), Nyaste Underrattelser om Ostra Indien Och China, Eller Missionaren C. Gutzlaffs Treariga Vistelse I Konungariket Siam, Jamte Hans Trenne Resor I China, Aren 1831, 1832 Och 1833, Stockholm, B.M. Bredberg, 1836, 8vo, one folding map, abridged version, translated by J. Ekelund, 96 pp.
• 1840, London, Thomas Ward and Co., 1840, 3rd edition, 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 312 pp.
• 1847, another German edition.
• 1968, Ch'Eng-Wen Publishing Co, Taipei, reprint, 451 pp.
• Elibron Classics reprint, paperback, 558 pp.
• This book is on-line at the National University of Singapore Library. You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the book and that can be downloaded free. The section on Loo Choo is at Chapter VII (pages 289-296) and spans a visit of approximately 5 days (August 22-27, 1832).

Subsequent Editions:

• 1835, Revised (British) Edition, London, James Nisbet, 12mo, title: Journal of a Residence in China and the Neighbouring Countries from 1830 to 1833. Revised and Reprinted from the American Edition, With an Introductory Essay, color folding frotispiece map by R. Palmer, 366 pp.
• 1836, Second Edition, New York, J. Abeel Williamson, 12mo, 378 pp.

Other Editions:

• 1834, Paris, 4to, text in French, 460 pp.

Subsequent Edition:

• 1839, Paris. 2 volumes,
• 1842, Paris, Furne et Cie, 2 volumes, Vol. 1 has 288 engravings, Vol. 2 has 280 engravings, each volume has a frontispiece of 4 portraits and there are 6 folding maps, 4to.

Reprint:

• 1948, Tokyo reprint, 75 pp.
• 1972, hardcover. ISBN 0-84201-4004

• 1839, George Tradescant Lay, E. French (Scatcherd and Adams Printers), New York, 5 x 7 3/4 in, same main title as Volume 1 (above), second title: Notes Made During the Voyage of the Himmaleh in the Malayan Archipelago (Volume 2), see below.

Companion Book.

• 1839, The Claims of Japan and Malaysia upon Christendom, Exhibited in Notes of Voyages made in 1837, from Canton, in the ships Morrison and Brig Himmaleh, Under Direction of the Owners, Volume 1, see above.

Medhurst, Walter Henry:
An English and Japanese and Japanese and English Vocabulary Compilated from Native Works by W. H. Medhurst, Batavia (Jakarta), 8vo, lithograph printing, 344 pp.

Busk, William:
Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century, London, John Murray, 12mo, 432 pp.

Other Editions:

• 1841, London, John Murray, First Edition, 8vo, paperback and hardback (perhaps bound later), 5 x 7 in, 423 pp.
• 1841, New York, Harper and Brothers, "Harper's Family Library, CXXXII," paper wraps, 298 pp.
• 1842, New York, Harper and Brothers, "School District Library - No. 149" and "Japan Manners and Customs" on spine, 1/4 leather, gilt stamped spine and cloth boards, 298 pp.
• 1845, New York, Harper and Brothers, 25 chapters, 298 pp.
• 1852, London, John Murray, Japan and the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century: From Recent Dutch Travels, Especially the Narrative of Von Siebold. Manners & Customs of the Japanese, 423 pp.
• 1855, New York, Harper and Brothers, Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century: From Recent Dutch Travels, Especially the Narrative of Von Siebold, 298 pp.
• 1855, New York, Harper and Brothers, "Family Library," 298 pp.
• 1867, New York, Harper and Brothers, "Family Library," 298 pp

Forcade, Theodore A., et. al.:
Annales de le Propagation de le Foi, Recueil Periodique, Des Lettres Des Eveques et des Missionnaires, des Missions des Deux Mondes, et de Tous Les Documents Relatifs Aux Missions et a L'Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi, Collection Faisant Suite Aux Lettres Edifiantes, Tome Dix-Huitieme (Volume 18), A. Lyon, Chez L'Editeur des Annales, 1846, small 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in - 13.8 x 20.6 cm), blue paper boards, title and volume number on paper labels on spine, text in French, 576 pp. This is a yearly report on the various Catholic missions throughout the world. It is primarily a compilation of letters and reports submitted by the missions in the field. Most of these are dated during the period of 1844-1845. The report covers the entire world with reports from missions in China, Korea (Coree), Lieou-Kiou (Lew Chew - Loo Choo - Okinawa), Tong-King Occidental, Thailand (Siam), Inde, Syrie, Constantinople, Madagascar, United States, Canada, Australia, Iles Marquises, Wallis, Tonga, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Melanesie. There is a statistical section covering the year of 1845 which outlines the amounts spent on the various foreign missions. The report from the mission on Okinawa (Lieou-Kiou) is of particular interest. The letter of October 12, 1845 by Father Forcade (pages 363-383) included in this volume probably represents the earliest published account of Okinawa written by a Westerner actually residing there and not just briefly stopping in the course of a voyage. At the time the letter was written, Father Frocade had been on Okinawa for over 16 months. For more information on this book, click here.

For other George Smith books, see below.

Other editions:

• 1847, London, Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, as above but first edition, 13.2 x 21.4 cm, 12 plates (lithographs/engravings?), 1 map, 532 pp.
• 1847, New York, Harper, red blind stamped cloth, large 12mo, 12 full page plates and a folding map of China - illustrations are all black and white engravings, 467 pp.

Earlier Books by Sir Belcher:

Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, During the Years 1836-1842. Including Details of the Naval Operations in China from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841, London, Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 volumes, 8vo. Volume 1 -387 pp, three folding maps and 8 hand colored plates, 8 pp adverts. Volume 2 - 474 pp, 11 hand colored plates. The 19 hand colored plates include views of Port of Honolulu, Panama, Mount St. Elias, New Archangel, Port Anna Maria at Marquesas, Fort George at Astoria, maritime scenes and Chinese military.

The Botany... [and] The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur..., London, Smith, Elder, 1843 & 1846. Two volumes containing a total of 124 lithographic plates by Hullmandel. there are 60 lithographs in the Botanical atlas and the Zoological atlas contains 64 lithographs of mammals, birds and ichthyology.

Reprint: 1970, New York, Burt Franklin, 187 pp.

Subsequent Editions:

• 1852, London, George Routledge & Co., 435 pp, small 4to (1st edition, London).
• 1854, George P. Putnam & Co., 365 pp.
• 1856, Hartford, Silar Andrus & Son, 365, 8vo.

Related Book/Articles by Bishop George Smith:

• 1847, Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, London, Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, 1847, 8vo, frontispiece, plates, folding map, 532 pp. frontispiece, plates, folding map. Appears to be the same book as the three listed below.
• 1847, Smith, George. A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, London, Seeley, 1847 (1st ed), 12 tinted plates (7 lithograph and 5 engraved), 1 folding map, 8vo, brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignettes on front and back cover, 532 pp. See above.
  
• 1847, Smith, George. A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, London, Seeley, 1847 (2nd ed), 7 tinted lithographic plates (includes 2 of Hong Kong - "View of Victoria, Hong Kong, from the Opposite Mainland" and "View of Hong Kong Harbour from East Point" - and 1 of Macao) and 5 tinted engraved plates, 1 folding map, 8vo, 532 pp.
  
• 1847, Smith, George. Title as above, New York, Harper, 1847, 12 black and white woodcut engravings, 1 folding map, 467 pp.
  
• 1851, Smith, George (Introduction). The Jews at K'ae-Fung-Foo: Being a Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jewish Synagogue at K'ae-Fung-Foo, on Behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews with an Introduction by the Right Revd. George Smith, Shanghae, Missionary Society's Press, 1851, 8vo, folding map, 82 pp. An online facsimile is of 10 pages of this paper from the Princeton Review (April, 1852) is here.
• 1854, Smith, George. China, Her Future and Her Past; Being a Charge Delivered to the Anglican Clergy in Trinity Church, Shanghae on October 20, 1853, London, Thomas Hatchard, 1854, 12mo, 50 pp. (See separate listing below, under 1854).
• 1861, Smith, George. Ten Weeks in Japan (See separate listing, below, under 1861).

Gleason, F.:
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1854, Volumes VI & VII, Boston, F. Gleason, folio, a weekly illustrated journal/newspaper, numerous woodcut illustration, 52 consecutive issues, complete for the year 1854, 416 pp & 414 pp. The publications for 1854 run from Whole No. 131 (Jan 7, 1854, Vol VI - No. 1) through Whole No. 182 (Dec 30, 1854 - Vol VII, No 26). The issues are packed with illustrated news and current events, national and international, of the day. The Perry Expedition to Japan was in progress during this period and the issues contain the following Japan related material: a 1/8 woodcut portrait of Commodore M. C. Perry; "Mount of Pleasures and Japanese Harbor" (front page illustration with article); "Jeddo, Capital of Japan" (article with 6 illustrations; four well illustrated articles on "Japanese Scenes" and a 10 part series of articles (not illustrated) by Rev. Luther Farnham on "Japan and the Japanese." The year of 1854 was the last year that weekly was published under this name. Starting in 1855, it took on the name of it's new owner and was called "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion." For more information on this publication click here.

• 1855, Philadelphia, E. C. and J. Biddle, soft cover.
• 1858, Washington, William A. Harris, 8th edition, "Approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography and Published by Authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy," improved and enlarged (2 volumes).

Facsimile Edition. Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, and Sanshusha & Kandan, Tokyo, 1902, 8vo (6 1/4 x 9 in - 15.5 x 22.7 cm; Tokyo edition), 611 pp, green cloth with a gilt title on spine and ship on front, fold-out map of Japan as frontispiece. Edited with supplementary notes by K. Murakawa. It appears the Tokyo edition may be scarcer and was issued in a quantity of only 500. For more information on the Tokyo printing of this facsimile edition, click here.

Subsequent Edition:

Hildreth, Richard
Japan and the Japanese, Bradley & Dayton, Boston, 1860 & 1861, 588 pp (no illustrations). This edition has been revised to the date of printing.

Hildreth, Richard
Clement, Ernest W. (Supplementary Notes),
Elliot, William (Introduction):
The Empire of the East. A Simple Account of Japan as It Was, Is, and Will Be, 2 volumes, 12mo (19 x 13 cm), A. C. McClurg & Company, Chicago, 1906, frontispieces, 73 plates and 2 folding maps, Vol 1 - 401 pp, Vol 2 - 387pp.

Hildreth, Richard:
The Empire of the East. A Simple Account of Japan as it was, is, and will be, Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1909, hardcover, 8vo, 19 illustrations, including one in color, 307 pp.

Subsequent Editions:

• 1858, J. B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia, 507 pp. The title page shows a date of 1858 while the copyright is 1857.
• 1871, 1873 & 1878, J. B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia, 507 pp. (Slight variation in title: My Last Cruise. Where we Went and What we Saw: Being an Account of Visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the Coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the Mouth of the Amoor River).
• For more information on the 1878 edition, click here.
• The 1878 edition has at least two different cover types.

Subsequent editions.

• 1859, Philadelphia, G. G. Evans, blue cloth frontispiece, 406 pp, 12mo.
• 1860, Philadelphia, G. G. Evans, blue cloth frontispiece, 406 pp, 12mo.

Subsequent Editions/Reprints:

• 1860, Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, two volumes, stated second edition, with 20 colored or tinted lithographic plates, 5 folding maps, numerous in text illustrations, 8vo (6 x 9 in), red or blue pictorial cloth with gold gilt, 492 pp + 16 pp ads - 496 pp.
• 1860, Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, two volumes - same as first but without the colored or tinted plates, 4 folding maps, numerous in text illustrations, 6 x 9 in, red pictorial cloth with gold gilt.
• 1860, New York, Harper & Brothers, (first US edition), 1 volume, 645 pages, color frontispiece (hand colored chromolithograph?), 60 black and white woodcut illustrations, green pictorial gilt cloth. To see the cover and sample illustrations, click here.
• 1860, Paris, Michel Levy Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, La Chine et Le Japon, Mission du Comete D'Elgin Pendant Les Annees 1857, 1858 et 1859, translated into French by M. Guizot, 2 volumes, 493 & 459 pp.
• 1875, Paris, Michel Levy Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, Le Japon Raconté par Laurence Oliphant Traduction Publiée par M. Guizot, Nouvelle édition, translated into French by M. Guizot, 16 plates, 379 pp.
• 1969, New York, Augustus Kelley, red cloth, two volumes.
• 1970, New York, Praeger Scholarly Reprints, one volume, 645 pp. Maps not reproduced.
• 1970, London & New York, Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, introduction by J.J. Gerson, Oxford University Press, "Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints," facsimile edition, maroon boards, two volumes.

Reprint:

• Elibron Classics reprint, 2 volumes, 666 pp.

Other Editions:

• 1859, Edinburgh, 2nd edition - same year as the 1st, green cloth, 210 pp, plus 16 pages of publisher's ads at rear.
• 1860, Edinburgh, 210 pp.
• 1865, Edinburgh, small 8vo, 535 pp.
• Originally published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol LXXXIV, Jul-Dec, 1858 (Part 1), Vol LXXXV, Jan-June, 1859 (Parts 2-4).

• Elibron Classics reprint.

Subsequent Edition.

• 1860, London, Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 8vo, blue blind stamped boards with gilt decoration on front and gilt decoration and title on spine, 6 tissue guarded plates and 29 text illustrations, 447 pp.

Other Edition/Online Edition:

• 1861, Philadelphia, Charles Desilver, dark blue blindstamped and pebbled cloth with gilt decoration on the front board and and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, 448 pp.
• The book can be found on-line here.

Facsimile Edition/On-Line Edition:

• 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
• The book can be found on-line here.

Other Edition & Facsimiles:

• 1860, Souvenirs d'une Ambassade en Chine et au Japon, en 1857 et 1858, Paris, Hachette, 12mo, 350 pp. Published with paper wraps and hardbound. For more information on this book, click here.
• 1861, Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan in 1857-1858 by Marquis De Moges, Attache to the Mission [Authorized Translation], 2nd edition, London, Griffin, Bohn & Co., 4 tinted lithographs, maroon blind stamped cloth with gilt emblem (same as first London edition), 12mo, 368 pp.
• 1972, Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan in 1857-1858 by Marquis De Moges, (facsimile) Ireland, Irish University Press - Harper & Row, 8vo, 368 pp.
• 1972, Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan in 1857-1858 by Marquis De Moges, (facsimile) Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources, 8vo, 368 pp.

Alcock, Rutherford:
Elements of Japanese Grammar: For the Use of Beginners, Shanghai, 8vo, 2 folding plates, 67 pp.

For earlier books by George Smith, D.D., click here.

• 1864, Paris, as above .

Dalton, William:
Will Adams, the First Englishman in Japan, London/New York, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1861, 12mo (5 x 7 in), 20 woodcut illustrations in the text, 298 pp. This book, which was first published in 1861, is a fictional account of Will Adams life with the focus on his life in Japan. The book is written in the first person using the construct of a fellow shipwrecked sailor named Melichor von Santvoort (an actual member of the Dutch fleet) who was also a member of the ill-fated Dutch fleet that brought Adams to Japan in early 1600. This is an early Western account of Japanese polictics, Japanese royalty, the Christian faith in Japan, Western contact with Japan, and life in general Japan in the 17th century (1600-1650).

• 1861, London, first edition (per Wenckstern).
• 1866, London, George Routledge & Sons, 2 plates, 19 cm, 434 pp.
• 1868, 2nd edition (per Wenckstern).
• 1870, London, Blackwood, 26 woodcut illustrations, 289 pp (reported).
• 1871, London, A.W. Bennett:Routledge, 343 pp (per Rogola).
• 1875, London, Blackwood (per Rogala).
• ca 1875, London, Blackwood, 19 woodcut illustrations, 298 pp. For more information on this edition, click here.
• 1875, New Edition (per Wenckstern).

Gower, J.G.:
Views of Japan, London, Negretti and Zambra, 1861. This publication is reported in A Timely Encounter, Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan, published by the Peabody Museum Press for the Wellesley College Museum (see 1988, below). It is characterized as "...the first commercially produced photographs of Japan...." in the museum exhibition catalogue.

Negretti & Zambra
Rossier, Pierre:
Japan Series, London, 1861, stereoviews, photographs possibly by the Swiss photographer Pierre Rossier or the British photographer, W.B. Woodbury, or the British amateur photographer, Abel J. Gower. A very early stereoview series on Japan. Old Japan Company has catalogued 19 views ranging from number 55 through number 79 and believes the series may have 25 views. George Smith, in Ten Weeks in Japan, sources the images in five of the eight color woodcut plates in his book to Negretti & Zambra.

G.A.B.
Very little is known about this French publisher who issued stereoviews of Japan in the 1860s. The two G.A.B. Japan stereoviews I have seen both had printed paste on labels on the back reading "Japan" with an English language description of the image and "Registered No. xxxx" and the initials "G.A.B.". The same number as the registered number is etched into one image on the front. Otherwise, there are not titles or lettering, in the image or on the mount, on the front.

Drew, C. & G.H.:
Stereoviews of Japan in yellow mounts with handwritten captions. Exact date has not been established but believed to be from the mid-1860s. View recorded is "757" with the handwritten title "View of Temple Osaka, Japan" The stereoview bore the handstamp "Photo by C. & G.H. Drew, 22 Tremont Street Under Boston Museum."

Subsequent Edition:

• 1863, Saunders Otley and Co., 8vo, blind stamped blue or red cloth, gilt lettering, 6 color plates, 1 tinted plate, 2 black & white foldout plates, a tinted foldout map, and 6 text illustrations, 286 pp.

• 1865-1866, 13 Issues
• 1869
• 1871
• 1873
• 1874
• 1876, April
• 1876, August
• 1876, October
• 1886, June

Related Reference Books:

• 1990, "Charles Wirgman (1832-1891), recent discoveries and re-evaluations" a paper by John Clark. Published in British Library Occasional Papers II, Japanese Studies. A well reseached paper on Wirgmans life both in Japan and before Japan. Spans pages 260-76 in the book. For more information on the book, click here.
• 2004, The Genius of Mr. Punch: Life in Yokohama's Foreign Settlement, Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch, 1862-1887, compiled and annotated by Jozef Rogala, translations by Yamashita Hitomi, compiled and annotated by Jozef Rogala, translations by Yamashita Hitomi, Yokohama, Yurindo, illustrated stiff wraps, 290 illustrations, 230 pp. ISBN 4-89660-187-4. More information on this book is here.

Fonblanque, Edward Barrington de:
Niphon and Pe-Che-Li; or, Two Years in Japan and Northern China, London, Saunders Otley and Co,, 1862, 8vo, 286 pp. De Fonblanque served as a British consular official in Japan from January 1860 through October 1860. This an account of that residence in Japan. The book also includes an account of his stay in China from November 1860 through December 1861.

Subsequent Edition:

• 1863, Saunders, Otley and Co., 2nd Edition, 8vo, blindstamped blue or red cloth, gilt decoration on front cover and gilt decoration and lettering on spine, 8 color plates, 1 tinted plate (fold out map), 3 black & white (2 fold out) plates and 6 text illustrations, 287 pp. There appear to be different versions of the 2nd Edition which vary in the number and types of plates. For more information on this book, click here.

Alcock, Sir Rutherford:
The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863 (1st ed), 2 volumes, 8vo, green blindstamped cloth with gilt illustrations and lettering on front covers and spine, 16 tissue guard protected chromo-lithographs (2 frontispieces and 14 in the text), 128 black and white woodcut engravings, 2 folding colored maps, 469 pp / 539 pp. An account Japanese life, culture and geography by the British Special Envoy to Japan. The book is an excellent first hand description of major upheaval during this period as the foreign powers maneuvered to establish most favored relations with Japan and intense internal civil strife erupted between forces in favor of modernization and those championing Japanese isolation. Alcock was a keen observer and the book is his account across the entire spectrum of life in Japan during this period to include, politics and government, social and political turmoil, customs and social practices, pastimes, language, geography, international and domestic commerce and the economy (including monetary system), the legal system and flora and fauna. The book is a window into Japanese life of the 1859-61 period. In addition, Alcock provides historical background to place events in perspective. Drawings by Charles Wirgman form the basis of lithographs (three in volume 1 & nine in volume 2) in this set. For more information on this book, including pictures of the lithographs, click here.

Subsequent editions.

• 1863, New York, Harper & Brothers (1st US edition) 2 volumes: 407 pp / 436 pp, 2 folding maps, 2 frontispieces and approximately 100 other black and white illustrations (wood engravings - text & plates), small 8vo.
• 1868, New York, Bradley, 2 volumes: 407 pp / 436 pp, 2 folding maps and 100+ black and white woodcut illustrations, small 8vo.
• 1877, New York, Harper & Brothers?

Other Books by Robert Fortune:

• 1852, A Journey to The Tea Countries Of China including Sung-Lo And The Bohea Hills With A Short Notice Of The East India Company's Tea Plantations In The Himalayan Mountains, London, John Murray, 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, frontispiece (tinted lithograph), one lithographed map, 2 plates (one tinted lithograph and one wood-engraving), numerous engravings in the text, 398 pp. Fortune was a botanist traveling in China to collect plants for the Horticultural Society in London. He traveled throughout China in search of plants wearing Chinese clothes and presenting himself as Chinese.
• 1863, while not the author, Fortune contributed specimens that were used in The Pines and Firs of Japan by Andrew Murray, see below.

Murray, Andrew Dickson:
The Pines and Firs of Japan. Illustrated by Upwards of Two Hundred Woodcuts. Reprinted (With Additions and Corrections) from the Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1863, printed by Bradbury & Evans, 8vo (6 1/4 x 9 in - 15.5 x 23 cm), green cloth with title in gilt on front board, 224 numbered black and white woodcut text illustrations, index, 124 pp. At the time this work was prepared Andrew Murray was an Assistant Secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society. The work was based upon specimens provided by two British botanists who had recently returned from Japan, Robert Fortune and John G. Veitch. The author also drew information from works published by Kaempfer, Thunberg, Seibold and Zuccarini. For more information on this book click here.

Later Edition:

• 1863, Second Edition, London, Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, small 8vo, 24 pp.

Summers, Rev. James (editor)
Rost, Dr. Reinhold (editor):
The Chinese and Japanese Repository of Facts and Events in Science, History and Art, Relating to Eastern Asia, London, W.H. Allen and Company, 8vo, July 1863-December 1865, Nos. 1-29, published monthly in paper wraps, later bound into three volumes. For more info on bound Volume I, click here. For information on the May and June 1864 issues (Vol I, Nos. 11 & 12), click here.

Volume I, ca 1864, Nos. 1-12, July 1863 - June 1864, 524 pp.
Volume II, ca 1865, Nos. 13-17, August 1864 - December 1864, 230 pp.
Volume III, ca 1866, Nos. 18-29, January 1865 - December 1865, 592 pp.
• 1967, facsimile edition printed in Tokyo for Kraus of Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 3 vol.
• 2001, facsimile edition, Elbron Classics, paperback.
• 200?, facsimile edition, Tokyo, three volumes, Yushodo Press, ISBN: 978-4-8419-3004-7.

British Consuls in Japan:
Commercial Reports by Her Majesty's Consuls in Japan, London, printed by Harrison and Sons, 1865-1885 (covering the years 1863-1884), 8vo, blue paper wraps. Annual reports regarding commerce and trade in Japan filed by various British Consuls and submitted to Parliament in a consolidated report form. The British Consuls reporting included those at Hakodate, Hiogo and Osaka, Kanagawa (Yokohama), Nagasaki and, for a time, Niigata. In addition, the British Consul General would often provide an annual summary of trade for the year. The reports provide a wealth of information, in narrative and table format, on many aspects of Japanese trade with Great Britain. Among the many matters the reports detail are shipping and tonnage, imports and exports by commodity, duties collected, exchange rates and currency, railways and other internal transportation systems, foreign residents and firms, public works, demographics and population. Often reports would deal with current events relevant to commerce. The earliest British Consul Trade Report I have seen reported was for the year 1863-4. It was printed and presented to Parliament in 1865. It is quite possible earlier reports exist. These publications were consolidated reports combining one or more consul reports into a single publication for submission to Parliament. I believe that starting for the year 1885, individual reports were issued by the various consuls but not combined into printed consolidated reports. For detailed information on the reports (17 publications total) for the 11 years between 1874 and 1884, click here.

Casembrot, François De:
De Medusa in de Wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864, s'Gravenhage (The Hague), de Gebroeders van Cleef, 1865, 8vo, half red calf, 5 large lithographed folding maps, 150 pp. One map is a large folding map of the "Simonoseki straat." The account of the shelling of the Medusa by Japanese shore batteries as it passed through the Straits of Shimonoseki on July 11, 1863. Four crew members were killed and five wounded in the shelling giving rise to an international incident. Also the measures taken in retaliation by naval forces of Great Britain, France, Netherlands and the United States.

Other Edition:

• 1865, 2nd edition, The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, small 8vo, lithographed wraps, frontispiece (the Medusa in the Straits of Simonoseki on 11 July 1863) and 2 lithograph sketch maps of battle postions, all lithographed by S. Lankhout, 136 pp.

A one page manuscript letter and an eight page printed report transmitted by the letter.

• One Page Manuscript Letter. A one page manuscript letter dated December 6, 1867 from A.O. Gay (Yokohama Chamber of Commerce) to the President of the Chamber of Commerce, New York. The letter transmits a report by the Special Committee of the Yokohama General Chamber of Commerce regarding the opening to areas in Hiogo and Osaka to foreign interests. The letter measures 8 1/4 x 10 1/2+ in (21 x 26.5 cm).
• Eight Page Printed Report Dated December 1867. In this report the Chamber of Commerce is expressing frustration that its' representatives have not been given access to the soon to be opened foreign concessions at the Port of Hiogo (later called Kobe) and the City of Osaka and that it has been provided very little information on the matter. This report is dated December of 1867 and the two concessions were scheduled to be opened in January of 1868. Without this information the members of the Chamber of Commerce in Yokohama were unable to make plans for engaging in business in the newly opened areas. This report is a strong expression of the Chamber's frustration at the lack of information it was receiving from official government sources regarding the soon to be opened areas. The report contains 4 appendices. Appendix A is "Osaka Convention" which provided for establishing foreign areas/concessions in at Hiogo and Osaka. Appendix B is a February 7, 1867 letter from the Chamber of Commerce to representatives of Great Britain, France, Holland and the United States requesting that representatives of the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce be allowed to go to Hiogo and Osaka and be given information on the soon to be opened areas. Appendix C contains the British and Dutch replies dated February 1867 and April 1867 which summarily rejected the request to allow a delegation of the Chamber of Commerce to visit the areas. Appendix C. is a letter dated October 27 from a Japanese representative which gives little information and leads to the conclusion that even as of that late date plans for the two areas are not completed. The appendices are followed by an undated "Minute" which is from the same Japanese representative and does provides some detail as to the Japanese plans for the soon to be opened areas. This letter reproduced in the minute was pronounced inaccurate by the Kanagawa governor. The report is on high quality blue paper ("E. Towgood, 1866" watermark) and measures 8+ x 11 1/2+ in (20.6 x 29.6 cm). The report is composed of a front cover with title and inside blank, 5 pages of text and a blank back cover (8 pages total). At the foot of the last page of text is "Yokohama--Printed at the 'Japan Times' Office."

To see the letter and cover page for the report, click here.

This same letter and report is recorded in the Annual Report of the U.S. Chamber of commerce in these terms:

From The Chamber of Commerce of Yokohama, Japan. A communication was read from Mr. A. O. Gay, Chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce of Yokohama, Japan, dated December 6, 1867, and enclosing a copy of a report made by a Special Committee upon the opening of the ports of Hiogo and Osaca, which was ordered on file. (New York, John W. Amerman Printer, 1868, Tenth Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, For the Year 1867-'68, Part I, at page 34, to see click here).

Beato, Felice
Sutton, Frederik William:
A grouping of 7 black and white albumen photographs documenting atrocities committed against foreigners in Japan during the period for October 1863 through march of 1868. Each photograph is mounted on parchment type paper (ca 11 x 17 in). Attribution of the photographs and the accompanying manuscript text is uncertain.

The following images are present.

1. Corpse of Lieutenant Camus (French) killed on the outskirts of Yokohama in October 18, 1863 (believed to a Beato photograph). On the back of the plate there are manuscript accounts detailing the assassination.
2. Collaborator Ichikawa Shaburo before execution (believed to by Sutton). Manuscript notation reads: "Ichi-kawa sha bro, La ung usa shi ngu no, a priest taken prisoner at the attack of Sir Henry Parkes, 23 March 1868."
3. The severed head of the head of Parke's assassin, Hidashida (unknown photographer). Manuscript notation reads "Head of Hi-hashi-da, a medical student (one of the Kioto assassins) who attacked Sir Henry Parkes when going to visit the Mikado, 23rd March '68 & was killed on the spot by Yakai & Goto sho jiro, officers of the Mikado's court."
4-7 (details not known)

Other editions.

• ca 1861, London, A.W. Bennett.
• ca 1870, London, Blackwood, 289 pp.
• ca 1875, London, Blackwood.

Other Editions:

• 1868, London?, Murray?, 32 plates, 2 folding maps.
• 1869, London, Murray, 542 pp.

Subsequent Editions:

• 1870, New York, Hurd and Houghton.
• 1871, New York, Hurd and Houghton.
• 1879, Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co.
• 1976, Garland Publications.

Other Editions:

• 1868~1874, numerous editions (at least 9).

Other Editions (English Language)/Related:

• 1873, Japan and the Japanese Illustrated, (First English Edition) London, translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and edited by H. W. Bates, 207 illustrations, 400 pp.
• 1874, Manners and Customs of the Japanese (Cover), Japan and the Japanese Illustrated (Title Page), (First US Edition) New York, Appleton, folio (10 x 12 in), translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and edited by H. W. Bates, folio, red cloth pictorial front and spine with gilt lettering and decoration, 198 woodcut engravings, 378 pp.
• 1874, Japan and the Japanese Illustrated, London, Richard Bentley, decorated red cloth, 4to, 378 pp.
• 1876, Japan and the Japanese, (Second Edition - English) translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and edited by H. W. Bates.
• 1880, Japan och Japanerna. Oefversättning af C. Swahn, the Swedish translation of 2 articles about Japan originally published in Le Tour du Monde, Paris, 30 x 23 cm, 48 pp + 40 pp with 31 plates and 30 text illustrations.

Block, Adolphe (B.K.):
Stereoviews of Japan in red mounts with handwritten captions. Exact date has not been established but believed to be the early-1870s. Left hand side reads "Chine & Japon" and the right reads "B.K. - Paris." The title is written in hand on the back. View confirmed is "Repas Japonaise - Yokohama."

Subtitles:

Volume I, A Monthly Magazine for China, Japan and Eastern Asia
Volumes II & III, A Monthly Magazine for India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan and Eastern Asia

More information:
Volume III, No. 28, October 1872, click here.
Volume III, No. 29, November 1872, click here.
Volume III, Nos. 31-36, January - June 1873, click here.
Volume III, No. 35, May 1873, click here. Contains "Notes on Loochoo" by Satow.

• 1st Series, Volumes I-VIII (May 1870 - October 1875).
• 2nd Series (New Series), Volumes I-V (July 1876 - November 1878)

It is reported that a set from July 1876 ~ December 1877 contained a total of 116 tipped in albumen photographs.

For information on the series and to see the first two volumes of the 2nd series, click here.

Various:
Echo du Japon, Yokohama, c1870-c1890, folio, illustrated with woodcuts. Per Wenckstern (1895) - "published for nearly 20 years in Yokohama. - Stopped 4-5 years ago."

Related Silk Reports by F.O. Adams:

• 1869, Yokohama, Report on a Visit to the Silk Districts of Japan, 8vo, with plate, 20 pp.
• 1869, Lyon, Rapport sur une Tournee dans les Districts Serigenes du Japon, 8vo, with plate, 20 pp.
• 1870, Lyon, Deuxime Rapport sur la Sericiculture au Japon, with illustrations. Published in Revue Universelle de Sericiculture, volume III, pp 294-310;316-319), 8vo, with illustrations.
• c1870, London, Report on the Silk Districts of Japan, with map. Published in the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, Vol 40, pages 339 and following, 8vo.
• 1870, Yokohama, Third Report..., as above, with 8 plates, 22 pp.
• 1870, London, Third Report...., as above, folio, 2 maps and 17 plates 16 pp.
• 1871, London, Report on the Central Silk Districts of Japan, folding map, 5 pp. Published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.
• 1871, London, Despatches from Mr. Adams, H.M. Secretary of Legation at Yedo Respecting the Deterioration of Silk in Japan, 13 pp, folio.
• 1871, Lyon, Troisieme Rapport sur la Sericiculture au Japon. Published in Moniteur des Soies, Vol X, pp 474-6.

Subsequent editions (all one volume) :

• 1874, London, Macmillan, front cover with black decoration, spine with title in gilt and decoration in gilt and black, 326 pp, 2nd ed
• 1876, London, Macmillan, stated 3rd edition, frontispiece, 29 black and white woodcut plates, 8vo, front cover with black decoration, spine with title in gilt and decoration in gilt and black, 383 pp. Tales are: (1) The Forty-Seven Ronins, (2) The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki, (3) Kazuma's Revenge, (4) A Story of the Otokodate of Yedo, (5) The Wonderful Adventures of Funakoshi Jiuyemon, (6) The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto, (7) Fairy Tales - 9 different, (8) The Ghost of Sakura, (9) How Tajima Shume was Tormented by a Devil of his Own Creation, (10) Concerning Certain Superstitions, (11) Japanese Sermons.
• 1879, London, Macmillan, 383 pp, stated 3rd edition?
• 1883, London, Macmillan, 383 pp, "New Edition"
• 1890, London, Macmillan
• 1893, London, Macmillan, 383 pp
• 1894, London, Macmillan, 383 pp
• 1901, London, Macmillan
• 1903, London, Macmillan, 383 pp

• 1872, Notes on Japanese Art, printed for private circulation, 4to (28 x 21.5 cm), all edges gilt, 15 black and white plates, 31 pp.

General comments regarding Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Natur- Und Volkerkunde Ostasiens. This periodical is a well illustrated scholarly journal covering all facets of life and culture in Meiji era Japan. The primary contributors to the publication were German scientists, scholars and academicians living in Japan at the time. You often find their works published in a similar scholarly journal, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, which began publication in 1872 in Japan. The publication was issued individually and in bound volumes. Volumes 1-6 (1873-1897) contain parts 1-60 and were issued in the 4to format. Beginning with volume 7 the format was changed to 8vo. It appears that while publication was suspended from 1916-21 and from 1946-52 the periodical was published until 1953 and perhaps later. Wenckstern contains a very detailed listing (article by article) of the contents through Volume 10 (1906). Reprints of the earlier issues were made. The issues contain numerous text illustrations, tables, maps, plans, musical scores, and plates (some fold out and in color). Part 23 (March 1881) has a well illustrated article on "Die Liu-Kiu-Insel Amami Oshima" by Dr. L. Boederlein.

Variations in titles. The publication generally carries the title Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Natur-Und Volkerkunde Ostasiens. Herausgegeben von dem Vorstande on the front cover. Sometimes "Ostasines" has an apostrophe ("Ostasien's"). From the periodicals I have examined, the "Ostasien's" variation began with Part 3, September 1873. A reprint of Part 1 dated 1890 carries the title Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Natur-Und Volkerkunde Ostasiens in Tokio."

Printers. The first part ("Erstes Heft." - Mai 1873) does not state a printer only "Yokohama." The second part (2tes Heft. - July 1873 and third part (3tes - September 1873) were printed by the Japan Mail, Yokohama ("Yokohama/Druckerei der 'Japan Mail."). Starting with part four (4tes Heft. - Januar 1874) the printer is Echo du Japon, Yokohama ("Yokohama/Druckerei der 'Echo du Japon"). At least through part 24 (1881) and probably later, Echo du Japon remained the printer. A reprint of part one in 1890 was printed by R. Meiklejohn & Co, Yokohama ("Buchdruckerei Von R. Meiklejohn & Co.").

Albumen photograph tipped in illustrations. I have confirmed two parts with tipped to page albumen photographs. These are:

• Part 2, July 1873, at page 10, four tipped in albumen photographs (6.6 x 12.5 cm, each photograph). The page is titled "Ein Japanischer Globus." and the photographs show sections of a map/globe.
• Part 4, January 1874, at page 3, one tipped in albumen photograph (17.3 x 12 cm). The photograph follows an article titled "Sitzung in Yokohama am 10ten Januar 1874." The image is very faded but appears to be a view looking at a bluff.

More information on early issues:

• Parts 1-6, May 1873 through December 1874, click here.
• Part 6, December 1874, 1890 reprint, click here.
• Part 12, 1877, Separate (Supplemental) Issue, click here.
• Part 13, November 1877, click here.
• Part 24, 1881, Separate (Supplemental) Issue, Liu-Kiu-Insel - Amami Oshima article, click here.

Matsumoto Kosuke:
The Modern Conversations in English & Japanese: for those who learn the English language, Tokie (Tokyo), Printed by "Matsmoto" the sixth year of Meidei 2533 (1873), 8vo, 153 pp.

Related books:

• 1886, Tokyo, 12mo Easy Conversations in English and Japanese for Those Who Learn the English Language, Shinkodo, 225 pp.
• 1887, Osaka, 12mo, 2nd Edition, Easy Conversations in English and Japanese for Those Who Learn the English Language, Osaka.

• 1876, Yokohama, Kinse Shiriaku. A History of Japan, from the First Visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the Capture of Hakodate by the Mikado's Forces in 1869. Translated From the Japanese by Sir E. M. Satow, Japanese Secretary to H.B.M. Legation, Republished from the 'Japan Weekly Mail,' 2nd Edition, Yokohama, F.R. Wetmore & Co., large 12mo (5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in - 14.4 x 22.4 cm), printed paper wraps, 1876, 148 pp. For more information on this book, click here.
• 1906, Tokyo, Kinse Shiriaku. A History of Japan, from the First Visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the Capture of Hakodate by the Mikado's Forces in 1869. Translated From the Japanese by Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Ex-British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Prenipotentiary at Tokyo. Revised Edition, with Supplementary Notes by Shuziro Watanabe, The Naigwai Shuppan Kyokwai, 12mo, (5 x 7 1/2 in - 12.8 x 18.7 cm) printed paper wraps, 178 pp. For more information on this book, click here.

Other Editions:

• 1873, New York, Appleton, 198 woodcut engravings, 378 pp.
• 1874, London, Richard Bently, 4to, red cloth decorated in black & gilt, 198 illustrations, 378 pp. .
• 1876, London, Richard Bentley.

Reprint:

• 2001, New York, Elibron Classics.
  

Satow, E. M.:
Kuaiwa Hen, Twenty-Five Exercises in the Yedo Colloquial, for the Use of Students. Part I, Yokohama, 1873, 153 pp.

Other Editions:

• 1877, as above.
• c1910, Kuaiwa Hen. Texte Japonais, reprint in two volumes, yellow paper wraps, string tied, Part I has exercises 1-14 and Part II has exercises 15-25.

Summers, Rev. James:
Taisei Shinbun, London, newspaper format, type set with in Japanese kana and kanji, illustrations from copperplate engravings, only one issue published. A copy of the paper was later (1929) reprinted in Japan. A Japanese language publication published in London apparently intended to provide Japanese there information on world events. Summers was also the editor of The Chinese and Japanese Repository of Facts and Events (1863-5) and The Phoenix (1870-73) both also published in London. These periodicals were in English and contained articles on Japan. Summers eventually went to Japan. He arrived there in October of 1873 and remained there until his death in 1891.

Facsimile Edition:

1. 1987, Kyoto, fascimilie edition, Dai Nippon Screen Mfg. Co, Ltd.

Thomson, John:
Illustrations of China and its People, London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-4, 4 volumes, folio (36 x 49 cm), 96 plates with a total of 218 collotype images of China, plates protected by leaves with letterpress descriptive text.

• 1874, 2nd edition.
• 1977, Hong Kong, J. Warner Publications, China: the Land and Its People: Early Photographs by John Thomson, reprint, 160 pp.
• 1982, New York, Dover Publications, China and its People in Early Photographs, unabridged reprint, 272 pp.

Munroe, Henry Smith:
Geological Survey of Hokkaido: Yesso Coals, Tokei, Kaitakushi, 1874, 8vo, 3 folding plates, 39 pp.

Later (Modified) Edition:

• 1889, A Suburb of Yedo, London, 1889, 23 plates, 212 pp. Slightly altered reprint of the 1874 book above.

Clark, D.R.:
Asiatic and Tropical Views series, Indianapolis, Indiana, D.R. Clark, 1874, stereoviews on yellow/cream mounts, square image areas, #51-56 are Japan views (51 Terraced Hills, Japan, 52 Temple in Japan, 53 View in Temple in Japan, 54 Temple and Burial Ground, 55 Nagasaki and 56 Mirror View). Views #57-9 are views of China and #60-78 are views of Ceylon. Left reads "Published by D.R. Clark. Indianapolis, Indiana." Right reads "North Pennsylvania Street." Bottom reads " Copyright by D.R. Clark, No.___ (number in manuscript)." The title/subject is not included on the face of the stereoview. To see views #52, #54 and #55, click here.

Other Editions:

• 1876, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, first "American" edition, 1876, 8vo (16 x 22.5 cm), frontispiece, 29 woodcuts and 5 leaves of text in facsimile, 214 pp. 1880, Yokohama & London, Allen & Co., "New Edition," 8vo, 29 aizuri-e woodblock plates, 1 plate with Japanese characters, 202 numbered pages + 2 unnumbered pages (204 pp). For more information on this edition, click here.
• 1886, French translation.
• 1892, Tokyo, Maruya, 3rd edition.
• 1912, London, 4th Edition, Gowans & Gray london, purple cloth, top edge gilt, 204 pp.