Yokohama Miyage

1860. SADAHIDE,Gyokuransai and KANAGAKI, Robun. Yokohama Miyage. Two volumes 18x12cm, original decorated wrappers, (worn but solid) with original printed label on the first volume and an old manuscript replacement on the second; Each with 25 folded leaves all with colour woodcuts.. 8vo. wrappers. [Tokyo] : Gifuya Seishichi,1860. This is an early survey of Yokohama, published shortly after it was opened as a foreign port in 1859. Gifuya Seishichi initially issued it in five parts in 1860. This version is a compilation of the five parts without title pages and colophon. This would appear to be as issued, divided exactly in half in the middle of part three. NIJL (National Institute of Japanese Literature) illustrates the Yokohama City Library copy of the first volume identical to ours. Waseda has a copy in the same wrappers with parts four and five together. They also have parts one to three in the original form. This an extremely appealing work, one of whose features is that many of the plates can be joined together to form panoramas. The wrappers are a little grubby, nevertheless this is a rare, important and visually attractive book on Yokohama. OCLC lists a copy at Stanford