Sekai Shobai Orai.
by HASHIZUME, Kanichi
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
1873. HASHIZUME, Kanichi. Sekai Shobai Orai. 26 leaves, illustrated throughout with small woodcuts in text. 8vo, 180 x 118 mm., bound in Japanese style original blue wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. Tokyo: Seizando, 1873. A handy bilingual vocabulary of world trade giving the English, with Japanese explanations, of a wide range of terms, place names, goods, and so on. Hashizume, who specialized in handbooks on trade and on foreign languages, produced several of these guides for merchants with similar titles.
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- Bookseller
- Ursus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148958
- Title
- Sekai Shobai Orai.
- Author
- HASHIZUME, Kanichi
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1873
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- Wrappers
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