Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan. Leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert d'Anethan
London, Stanley Paul & Co, [1913] (second edition)/ 1912.
Octavo, 472, 48 (publisher's catalogue, dated January 1913) pages with 116 illustrations (mostly from photographs) plus a frontispiece portrait of Baron d'Anethan.
Blind-stamped blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge gilt, bottom one uncut; cloth slightly rubbed and sunned, with two tiny bruises to the leading edge of the front cover; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.
Eleanora Mary, Baroness d'Anethan (1858-1935), sister of the author Rider Haggard, and widow of Baron Albert d'Anethan ('Belgian Minister to the Court of Japan'), spent the years 1893 to 1906 in Japan.
Item #131252
Price (AUD):
$200.00