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Meriken shinshi / [Tsurumine Shigenobu].

This set deals with the geography and history of North and South America. Seven chapters deal with the United States. In vol. 1 there are four full-page hand-colored maps showing the Eastern and Western hemispheres and North and South America. In vol. 2 is a double page hand-colored maps of the then-existing 31 states of the United States. In addition there are 38 full-page or double-page black and white illustrations. The author is well-known for his ready reception of western ideas. His work, "Gogaku shinsho", is one the first books of Japanese grammer based on western grammatical rules and conceptions.