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

Title: A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language. Ei-Wa taiyaku shuchin jisho. Second and revised edition. Yedo (Tokyo) 1867.
Description: . 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 title. Thin paper leaves 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.Originally compiled by Tatsunosuke in 1862 (200 printed copies) and here revised by Kamenoskay. This is probably a second issue of the second improved edition. Cordier gives the date 1866 and the preface is also dated 1866. This dictionary is the first substantial 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 assistance of Yanagawa Sunsam, Tanaka Yosiwo and others. Cordier BJ 672 (states 1866). Not in Astor Catalogue, Collison, the Trubner Catalogue, or Zaunmüller.

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asiatic, language, langue, asien, travel, exploration, linguistic,

Price: EUR 4800.00 = appr. US$ 5216.87 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 100582

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