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8vo, frontispiece-portrait in colour in both volumes (Ennin) pp. XIV-341 ; xv-454. First edition of a work by the translator of Ennin's diary, here presented in wider perspective for those with a specific interest in the Far East, but also for those with a more general interest in the broad record of human history. Ennin was a Japanese Buddhist monk who was sent to China as the leader of a Japanese embassy. The lengthy record of his wanderings and of his tribulations and triumphs is not only the first great diary in Far Eastern history; it is also the first account of life in China by any foreign visitor (Preface). The second saperate volume is . Reischauer's full translation of Ennin's diary under the title "Ennin's Diary, the record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the law". scarce in such complete and excellent condition.