7118g. Brunton, Richard Henry. BUILDING JAPAN 1868 – 1876. England. 1991
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7118g. Brunton, Richard Henry. BUILDING JAPAN 1868 – 1876. England. 1991
7118g. [Brunton, Richard Henry. BUILDING JAPAN 1868 – 1876. [With an Introduction & Notes by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, G.C.M.G. In addition to the 1906 Introductory, Postscript & Notes by William Elliot Griffis.]. England . 1991. 269p. 1st. 4TO. Without DJ. This book is an account of an English master mariner’s participation in the early maritime development of modern Japan . Born in the early nineteenth century, Albert Richard Brown was instrumental in coastal survey and in the erection of over 30 lighthouses. Building Japan was Brunton’s memoir of the years that he spent in Japan constructing lights to light up the coast. R. H. Brunton’s Japan Lights, was first published in London in 1876. The text of Brunton’s work presented here is as edited around 1906. With 28 color and monochrome photos and illustrations and numerous appendices and data. Clean, tight, near fine condition. (F). $34.