Author: GREEY, EDWARD:
Title: The Bear-Worshippers of Yezo and the Island of Karafuto (Saghalin) or the adventures of the Jewett family and their friend Oto Nambo. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1884.
Description: . Pp. xiv, 304. With 180 text illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt lettering on front cover, rubbed. Binding shaken. One endpaper at rear is missing. Old ownership signature. First edition of a narrative about the Ainu people. Edward Greey was a member of the English naval expedition to Japan in 1855-6. He spent six years in the country and wrote three books about Japan, of which this is one. Not in Cordier.

Keywords: East Asia, ainu, aino, japan, japanese, japon, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,


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