JAPANESE BOTANY WOOD BLOCK PRINTING EARLY JAPAN BOOKS BOTANICAL MANUSCRIPTS RARE









Description:

 Japanese Botany During the Period of Wood Block Printing by Harley Harris Bartlett and Hide Shohara, published in 1961. 

Section 1: An Essay on the Development of Natural History, Especially Botany in Japan; On the Influence of Early Chinese and Western Contacts; On Japanese Books and Wood Block Ilustration. 

Section 2: An Exhibition of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, Mostly Botanical, Held at the Clements Library of the University of Michigan, In Commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the the First Treaty Between the United States and Japan. 

Bound hardback, well illustrated. Some discolored spots on boards but internally very clean. Would make a fine addition to any library.