Sold for:
$185
$185
Kawamoto, Komin (1810-1871) Kikai Kanran Kogi . Japan, 1856. Five volumes, illustrated, printed in Japanese on rice paper throughout, soft cover, bound in original green patterned paper covers, stab sewn in the traditional Japanese manner. Kawamoto was a scholar of western thought, with special focus on the Dutch. This is an expansion of a Chinese translation of Johannes Buijs' Natuurkundig Schoolboek , and brought western science to Japan.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18