Japan - The Holy Bible/Kiu-Shin Yaku Zensho, [&] New Testame...

Hammer

£350

Japan - The Holy Bible/Kiu-Shin Yaku Zensho, [&] New Testament/Shin Yaku Zensho, five-volume set, first Protestant Bible printed in Japanese, ?second Holy Bible printed in Japan overall, Yokohama: National Bible Society of Scotland, 1887, volumes I-IV: Genesis to Malachi, volume V: New Testament with separate title-page, illustrated with three hand-coloured maps of the Holy Land, contemporary black morocco gilt softcovers, hand-marbled edges, black endpapers, volume I with contemporary ticket: Seishi-Bunsha/General Job Printing Office/Yokohama, Japan, contemporaneous Meiji period silk part-case en suite, 8vo, [5]