[EHON] Hirokawa Kai ??? — Nagasaki Bunken Roku ?????

[EHON] Hirokawa Kai ???. NAGASAKI BUNKEN ROKU ?????. Ky?to, Hishiya Magobei, Bunsei Gannen [1817]. 5 vols. in 3, string bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, 25.7 x 17.7 cm, original paper title labels, grey covers. The second printing after the first appearance in 1800. This "RECORD OF THINGS HEARD AND SEEN IN NAGASAKI" details a trip to Nagasaki undertaken by Kai, a scholar of Dutch medicine. This book has been described by Boxer as "one of the principal sources of information about Deshima and its occupants at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century". Not only about the Dutch, but also the Chinese, strange tales and monsters from abroad, etc.etc. See Hillier pp. 511,2 & Boxer JAN COMPAGNIE IN JAPAN, p.132. In overall good condition, the b+w woodcuts are in good impression. Complete. .