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TILLEY, Henry Arthur.
Japan, the Amoor, and the Pacific;
With Notices of Other Places, comprised in a Voyage of Circumnavigation in the Imperial Russian Corvette "Rynda," in 1858-60.
First edition. A well-written and lively account of life in late-Tokugawa Japan with excellent descriptions of the early European establishments there. Tilley took the position of English tutor with the Russian squadron travelling out via Japan to their new settlements on the Amur river. He spent three months at Nicholaivsk, claiming to be the first Englishman to visit the Amur, and visited Siberia before returning via San Francisco, Hawaii, Tahiti, and South America, concluding with an account of Monte Video. An uncommon account, full of interesting insights. This copy in a handsome binding, having been presented to J. Poley by Archibald Weyland Ruggles Brise on his leaving Eton in 1867.
Octavo. (219 × 132 mm) Contemporary scarlet calf, double gilt fillet panel to the boards, green morocco label to the spine which is gilt in compartments, all edges marbled. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 7 other similar plates. Some light foxing, endpapers and versos of the plates, very little show-through on the rectos, light shelf-wear, a very good copy.
