Author: JAPANESE LANGUAGE MANUAL -
Title: Handleiding [der] Nipponsche Taal. [Originele uitgave; Original edition].
Description: S.I.[Batavia], Kolff, s.d. [circa], 1941. Small 8°. Printed wraps. 144pp. Manual to the japanese language, romanized, compiled andpubl. on behalf of dutch interpreters shortly before the outbreak of the Pacific war, holding five sections, e.g., I: Bunpôteki setsumeisho (General directions); II a: Nippongo no kotoba/b: Orandago no kotoba (Useful words, A: list of japanese (nippon) words: japanese-dutch-malay; b: list of dutch-japanese-malay words); III: Sûshi nado (numerals); IV: Jijitsù nado (hours, days, months, etc.); V: Yaku ni tatsù kimari monku (Useful expressions & sayings). Well preserved copy. (spine slightly damaged, wraps. lightly soiled, name in corner of upper wrap., repeated in corner of title, some annots in ink in margins in a very neat hand, copy of Otto Karow, his name on title.)

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