The kagami-no-fune or wicker boat.
Tokyo: Society of Naval Architects, 1930. First edition, large, slim 8vo, pp. [8], [115]-196, [2]; vignette title page, 10 plates (1 in color, 1 loose) and 20 illustrations in the text; covers a little soiled, else generally fine in original printed beige paper-covered boards. Issued as Part IV, Section 3 of Vol. V in the publisher's A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan series. Includes wicker boats in Manchuria, Korea, and Mongolia, skin-boats in China, Tibet and India, French and British coracles, the Eskimo and Aleutian skin-boats, the American bull-boats, etc. Item #29223
Price: $150.00
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