Author: BUSH, LEWIS
Title: The Life and Times of the Illustrious Captain Brown a Chronicle of the Sea and of Japan's Emergence As a World Power
Description: Voyagers' Press/Tuttle, 1969. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. Illustrated by R. H. Brunton. Hard cover is red cloth, looks like slubbed silk, with silver lettering in a black box, on the spine. Green monochrome, brocade design, end papers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Copyright page states "first printing, July 1969". Printed in Japan.6 color plates; 29 b/w illustrations, and two, bound in, folded, maps. "From coastal survey to the erection of lighthouses, from the building of the Japanese merchant marine to consular service for the Japanese Government, Capt. Brown...exciting story of the growth of an insular and anachronistically feudal state into the stature of a major international power". Includes epilogue; appendix: Richard Henry Brunton. 'The Japan Lights'. London, 1876; short handlist for further reading; index. Oversized, 4#. ; B&W Illustrations and maps; color plates; 8 3/4 x 11; xviii, 168 pages; Hard cover has slight bumping. DJ front flap is price cut at top and bottom; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: Japan; Japanese History; Biography; Famous People; Naval History; Naval Architecture; Feudalism; Meiji Japan; Merchant Marine;