Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of Vol. I: “Hakuhō shinpen” 舶砲新編 [“New Writings...
Ten pages of manuscript illus. in the first vol. plus a number of graphs & tables in the text. 724 folding leaves. Eleven parts in 12 vols. 8vo (265 x 185 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: 1847.
The most complete copy known of one of the two Japanese translations of J. N. Calten’s Leiddraad bij het Onderrigt de Zee-Artillerie (Dutch eds.: 1832, 1842, and 1847). In the second quarter of the 19th century, Japan had an urgent need to update its artillery and learn more about the artillery of its international adversaries. Artillery had been used... More