繪本 野山草” Ehon Noyamagusa [Book of Wild Plants], by Tachibana Yasukuni. The suggested date is 1883. Volume 1 only (of five). Octavo, (measures 22 x 15 cms], 28 pages (fukurotoji style, or pouch binding), very clean internally, cloth-covered paper, Japanese stab binding, a little age-toned and soiled. From the library of the antiquary Robert Washington Oates, with his bookplate on the endpaper. [Oates (1874-1958) was born in London and educated in Belgium and Germany. He served in the First World War as a private soldier, at the same time amassing a considerable fortune through his financial interest in a firm of industrial chemists. After the war he became an antique dealer, gaining an international reputation in the antiquarian book-trade.]