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[JAPANESE NATURAL HISTORY BOOK] [Realistic Depiction of All Kinds of Animals]
Tokyo. Shorin, n.d. [c.1885] 31 colour woodcut plates (5 double-page), 2pp. text, pale brown stiff wrappers, rubbed, with slightly chipped title strip, four-hole binding, 180x120mm. Book complete. ¶ The woodcuts illustrate animals(ox, tiger, rabbit, toad, lobster etc.), birds, flowers and plants. They are rather lightly printed. An old note in a European hand attached to the back wrapper states 'Given to W.F.Gurnell [?] by Lord Arthur Russell about 1886
Offered for AUD 140.00 = appr. US$ 111.58 by: David Spode (ANZAAB/ILAB) - Book number: 6085