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A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary
by Hepburn, J.C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya & Co., Limited, 1886. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxiii, [1], 1-962, [2] pp. Rebound in modern green cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. A leaf at the front and one at the rear of the volume with text in Japanese only. Most of the leaves have text in both Japanese and English. ANB, Sam Alewitz, "Hepburn, James Curtis (13 March 1815-21 September 1911)". James Curtis Hepburn worked as a physician and a missionary in China and in Japan during the nineteenth century. He is credited with writing an early (if not the earliest), significant and informative Japanese-English dictionary. This is the third edition of his dictionary, first published in 1867. A 1903 name and bookplate on the front preliminaries, the leaves are toned with the occasional wrinkle, two leaves at the end with a small chip to their margins.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000012787
- Title
- A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary
- Author
- Hepburn, J.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Z.P. Maruya & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1886
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