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Coins of Japan by Neil Gordon Munro has been reprinted
Coins of Japan by Neil Gordon Munro
This is an exact reproduction of the original work, except for the foreword First published in 1904 in Yokohama, Japan Foreword This is the great classic work “Coins of Japan”, the authoritative source that is cited by everybody else. This book is being reprinted because it is almost impossible to obtain. Many libraries who claim to have it turn out not to have it. There is only one for sale on the Internet. The price is $995 and it will not last long. Turns out that that book was the one that Neil Gordon Munro personally donated to the Royal Scottish Museum of Edinburgh, Scotland. They recently discarded it, apparently not realizing its rarity and value. One reviewer writes: This is the best reference book on Japanese cash coins ever published. Although it has been over 100 years since its publication, nothing comes even close to it, not even the works written in Japanese. Munro's book is very readable. This is a tough book to put down once you get into it. I just cannot imagine a collector of Japanese cash coins not owning this book. I have only been able to find one other one. That is in the New York Public Library. It is in poor condition and fragile and they would not agree to copy it. Neil Gordon Munro (1863 – 1942) was a Scottish physician and anthropologist. Resident in Japan for almost fifty years, he was notable as one of the first Westerners to study the Ainu people of Hokkaido. Educated in Edinburgh, he traveled in India and Japan before settling in Yokohama as director of the General Hospital in 1893. From 1930 until his death he lived among the Ainu in Nibutani village in Hokkaido. Film footage he took of the local people survives. Between 1909 and 1914 he sent more than 2,000 objects to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. He authored several volumes, among them 'Coins of Japan' (1904), 'Prehistoric Japan' (1908), and 'Ainu Creed and Cult' (with H Watanabe & BZ Seligman, 1963). Sam Sloan New York NY March 14, 2010 ISBN 4-87187-868-6 978-4-87187-868-5 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=4871878686 http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871878686 |
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