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OTSUKI, GENTAKU. Rangaku kaitei. [2-kan] /.
[Osaka], Gungyokudo, 1788. First edition of the first book on a foreign language published in Japan; 2 vols., 8vo, 3 Roman alphabets, Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, syllabaries, phrases, etc. in text; orig. crimson wrappers sewn in the Japanese manner, stitching renewed; covers worn, printed paper labels also worn. Contained in a Japanese folding case. Gentaku Otsuki was a scholar of western medicine as well as a scholar of the Dutch language, and ran a private school, "Shirando." Otsuki studied Dutch medicine under Gempaku Sugita in Edo in 1778, and the Dutch language under Ryotaku Maenoin the following year. Author of the Rangaku kaitei (1788), Otsuki served the shogunate as an astronomer from 1811, and engaged in the translation of other Dutch works. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies, A-1. Berkeley, Claremont, and Indiana only in OCLC.
Offered for US$ 18750.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 34531