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MORSE, EDWARD S. 1838-1925. Memoirs of the Science Department, University of Tokyo ... Shell Mounds of Omori Tokyo: Univeristy of Tokyo, 1879.

MORSE, EDWARD S. 1838-1925. Memoirs of the Science Department, University of Tokyo ... Shell Mounds of Omori Tokyo: Univeristy of Tokyo, 1879. Vol I, Part 1 only. 8vo. (280 x 194 mm). Lithographic frontispiece and 17 folding lithographic plates. Modern cloth, original front wrapper bound in. Wrapper soiled, chipped and laid down, minor browning. FIRST EDITION. Born in Maine, Edward Morse was a zoologist who went to Japan to study brachiopod shells in 1877. There he discovered shell mounds in the Shinegawa ward of Tokyo, and began an excavation of them — the first scientific excavations conducted in Japan, and the beginning of Japanese Archaeology. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website