An official guide to eastern Asia: transcontinental connections between Europe and Asia
Tokyo: prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 1913-1915. First editions, 5 volumes, 12mo; illustrated throughout: Volume I: Manchuria & Chosen (i.e., Korea), 1913, pp. [2], lxxxix, 350. 17 color folding maps and 16 black and white photographic plates, additional folding map in pocket on rear pastedown; rubberstamp "June 16, 1939" on title page and several other pages; Volume II: South-Westewrn Japan, 1914, pp. [2], cciv, 370. Color reproduction of woodcut by Suzuki Kiitsu, 15 color maps (10 folding), 5 black and white photographic plates; Volume III: North-Eastern Japan, 1914, pp. [2], x, 488. Color reproduction of a woodcut by Hishikawa Moronobu, 27 color maps (25 folding), 5 black and white photographic plates, plus an errata slip laid in; occasionalrubberstamps of the Hydroigraphic Office; ownership signature of Helen B. Erwin, April 1921 on title page; this volume lacks the frontiepiece; Volume IV: China, 1915, pp. [2], xviii, CXXIV, 414. Color woodcut, 22 color maps (21 folding), 8 black and white photographic plates, additional folding map in pocket on rear pastedown; Volume V: East Indies (including the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore), 1917, pp. xxx, 519, [1]. 25 color maps (14 folding), 6 black & white photographic plates, additional folding map in pocket on rear pastedown; ownership stamp of Samuel M. Rose dated 1922, and his ink notes throughout noting details of a trip through the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Singapore. All volumes with color map endpapers, text illustrations throughout; publisher's uniform terracotta limp cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; not a perfect set: a few folding maps frayed along the edges, binding of volume V a bit shaken, covers on volume IV and V a bit soiled, a number of tiny flaws not affecting soundness or legibility; in all, a good to very good, clean, and sound set which includes the uncommon fifth and final volume. Item #73288
Price: $2,500.00
