TATSNOSKAY (TATSUNOSUKE), HORI & HORIKOSI KAMENOSKAY: - A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language. Eiwaa taiyaku shûchin jisho. . Second and revised edition. Yedo (Tokyo) 1867.

. Thick oblong 8vo. Size: 15 x 22 cm. Pp. (iv) with title and preface + lexicon lvs (499), arranged alphabetically, ending with a Japanese title. Japanese red stamps on titles. Japanese ink inscription of book dealer Kuradaya Seieemon. Thin paper double folded in the oriental manner. Title with brown staining. Original blue cloth, worn and soiled, back cover almost detached. Housed in a specially made cloth box. Rare work. At the request of the government it was compiled by Tatsunosuke and others in 1862 (200 printed copies) and revised here by Kamenoskay. This dictionary is the first significant English-Japanese vocabulary, the first edition of which predates Hepburn's Japanese - English dictionary by five years. According to the preface, the first edition contained a number of errors regarding the Japanese and Chinese names of animals, plants and minerals that needed to be corrected. This has been done in the second edition with the help of Yanagawa Sunsam, Tanaka Yosiwo and others. This edition is also enlarged with tables of irregular verbs, explained abbreviations and arbitrary characters. Cordier gives the date 1866 and the preface is also dated 1866. Cordier BJ 672. Not in Astor Catalogue, Collison, the Trübner Catalogue, or Zaunmüller.

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