Fables choisies de J.-P. Claris de Florian. Illustrées par des artistes japonais sous la direction de P. Barboutau: Two volumes.

Tokyo: Librarie Marpon & Flammarion, & Tokyo, Cie Shueisha., 1895. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 4to. Leaves 18 + 18 with text and line drawings. With 28 full page wood cuts in colour, protected by tissue guards. Leaves folded Japanese style. Original pictorial wrappers printed in colours, silk threads. With the original patterend paper covered slip-case. Covers a little thumbed, slipcase worn and stained.. The Japanese artists are Koubota Tosoui, Kano Tomonobu and Kajita Hanko. From the library of Stephanos Carathèodory. Stephanos Carathéodory, was an Ottoman Greek who had studied law in Berlin and then served as secretary in the Ottoman embassies in Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. Stephanos had married Despina Petrocochino, who came from a Greek family of businessmen who had settled in Marseille. At the time of his son Constantin's birth, the family were in Berlin since Stephanos had been appointed there two years earlier as First Secretary to the Ottoman Legation.. The Carathéodory family, originally from Bosnochori or Vyssa, was well established and respected in Constantinople, and its members held many important government positions. Stephanos Carathèodory was the father of Constantin Carathéodory (or Constantine Karatheodori) (Greek: ???sta?t???? ?a?a?e?d???) (13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations and in the theory of boundary correspondence. In 1909, Carathéodory pioneered the Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. Known correspondence of Carathéodory-Einstein can be seen as facsimile in Einstein Archives Online (11 items). Three letters concern mathematics and these are printed in vol.8 of Einstein's Collected Works (Princeton Univ. Press 1987)