The Chinese and Japanese Repository of Facts and Events in Science, History, and Art Relating to Eastern Asia

8vo. 1846-5. Scarce. Three volumes bound in one, with 8 issues total. Various pagination. Includes Volume I: No. 12 (June 1864); Volume II: No. 13 (August 1864), No. 14 (September 1864), No. 15 (October 1864), No. 16 (November 1846), and No. 17 (December 1864); Volume III: No. 18 (January 1865), and No. 21 (April 1865). Full modern teal cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some light rubbing to spine and corners. Ex-library from the Benjamin Smith Lyman Collection, given as a memorial to the Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. Bookplate to front pastedown. Embossed library stamp and pointilist ex libris of Forbes Library to title page of Vol. I. Perforation to title page of Vol. I, repaired with tape to verso. A few stains and pencil annotations to interior. Some creasing to pages. A fascinating publication documenting life in China and Japan in the mid-1860s from the perspective of a Westerner.