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The Tourist’s Guide and Interpreter – Being a Comprehensive Guide to all the Interesting Places to Visit…to which is added General Information for Travellers in Japan, 1891

Posted: June 25th, 2024 | No Comments »

A copy of the 1891 Tourist’s Guide and Interpreter – Being a Comprehensive Guide to all the Interesting Places to Visit…to which is added General Information for Travellers in Japan published in Yokohama by Kelly & Walsh. The book included a folding map of Kobe, 29 colour plates of Tokyo, Mount Fuki, Nikko, Osaka, Nara, Lake Biwa etc , a folding map), numerous period adverts. This copy was the property of Henrietta Tayler (1869-1951), a Scottish scholar of the Jacobite period and WWI nurse.



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