Mémoire sur l'histoire ancienne du Japon : d'après le Ouen Hien Tong Kao de Ma-Touan-Lin

A handwritten copy of the _Mémoire sur l'histoire ancienne du Japon : d'après le Ouen Hien Tong Kao de Ma-Touan-Lin_ written by the Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys, President of the Society of Ethnographie, originally published in 1872. This version was copied for Ernest Mason Satow by the 'Ph. [Society] Japaniste' in 1876.
It is a small bound volume with red cover and bearing the bookplate for Ernest Mason Satow, Yedo, on the inside cover.

Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq, Baron d'Hervey de Juchereau, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys was a French sinologist also known for his research on dreams. In 1851 D'Hervey published his _Recherches sur l'agriculture et l'horticulture des Chinois_ , in which considered plants and animals that might be able to acclimatize to Western countries. He translated Chinese texts and stories. He also published works concerning oneirology.

Ernest Mason Satow was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. Satow was influential in East Asia and Japan, particularly in Bakumatsu (1853–1867) and the Meiji-period (1868–1912). He also served in China after the Boxer Rebellion (1900–1906), in Thailand, Uruguay and Morocco, and represented Britain at the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. Satow was a linguist, a traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist (chiefly with Frederick Dickins) and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects. He authored _A Diplomat in Japan_ and, in retirement, published _A Guide to Diplomatic Practice_ .

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Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq, Baron d'Hervey de Juchereau, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys was a French sinologist also known for his research on dreams. In 1851 D'Hervey published his _Recherches sur l'agriculture et l'horticulture des Chinois_ , in which considered plants and animals that might be able to acclimatize to Western countries. He translated Chinese texts and stories. He also published works concerning oneirology.

Ernest Mason Satow was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. Satow was influential in East Asia and Japan, particularly in Bakumatsu (1853–1867) and the Meiji-period (1868–1912). He also served in China after the Boxer Rebellion (1900–1906), in Thailand, Uruguay and Morocco, and represented Britain at the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. Satow was a linguist, a traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist (chiefly with Frederick Dickins) and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects. He authored _A Diplomat in Japan_ and, in retirement, published _A Guide to Diplomatic Practice_ .

The volume was catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2023.

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The volume was copied for Ernest Mason Satow in 1876. Its further custodial history is unknown.

The Society's collections also hold some published books by Hervey de Saint-Denys. Details can be found here. There is also some allied material relating to Ernest Mason Satow; details can be found in our Library catalogue: https://ras.koha-ptfs.co.uk/.

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