SENDAI OTSUKI [Otsuki Gentaku]. Rokumotsu Shinshi. Woodcut illus- trations of narwhals, mermaids and mermen, and miscellaneous natural history subjects. 2 volumes. Small 4to, original wrappers; minor worming in Volume 2 not impairing legibility. Np,

SENDAI OTSUKI [Otsuki Gentaku]. Rokumotsu Shinshi. Woodcut illus- trations of narwhals, mermaids and mermen, and miscellaneous natural history subjects. 2 volumes. Small 4to, original wrappers; minor worming in Volume 2 not impairing legibility. Np, Temmei 6 [1787] E2000-3000 Otsuki, who compiled the first dictionary and grammar of Dutch in Japan, was one of the leading 18th-century Rangakusha (i.e. Western scholars) of the Edo period.