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Title: Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century: From the Accounts of Recent Dutch Residents of Japan, and from the German Work of Dr. Ph. Fr. Von Siebold Author: Siebold, Philipp Franz von Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1841 Description: [4], 298 pp, Woodcut vignette on half-title. 15.2x9 cm. (6x3¾"), original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition. Early account of Japan by Von Siebold, the noted physician and botanist, based on his sojourn with the Dutch Embassy in Japan. Issued as No. 132 in The Family Library from Harper. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light foxing, stain to top gutter corner of earlier leaves, very good or better, a tight copy. Item number: 216597