ILLUSTRATED GUIDE BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS ROUND THE WORLD. Japanese Title: SEKAI RYO

Osaka [1886] Awoki Szandow. Black cloth spine over boards, very good, South Asia vol.6 only, 182 double-folded pages, profuse etchings/illustrations, 9.5 x 15 cm., marbled edges, FIRST EDITION OBSCURE & R A R E An excellent set of early monographs, written for the new era of Japanese who began to travel the world. Each text is therefore in Japanese, with additional captions in English. Each volume covering a different geographical area of the world, complete set consist of seven volumes. The set is arranged to start with volume one and each successive volume continues from where the previous volume left off. This work is one of the earliest detailed travel guides to the world in Japanese. Quaint work with much charm ! * NOTE: We may only have separate volumes from the whole set, so please each entry READ CAREFULLY ! * ILLUSTRATED PROFUSELY: Nearly every page has an etched illustration, either full or half-page. World famous places and their sights are described and illustrated. The front covers are nicely printed in chromolithographic colors. The backs show the logo of "Awoki Szandow Osaka Bookselling," printed in gold. The internal illustrations are of copper or steel etching type, and are of high quality, fine line. * CO-AUTHOR: The co-author was J. Susuka. * CONTENTS OF THE COMPLETE SET CONSISTS OF SEVEN VOLUMES: Volume 1: Americas: San Francisco, Chicago, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. * Volume 2: London, exhibition at Kensington, Regent Street, Surrey, Zoological gardens, Vauxhall Gardens, Windsor Castle, Regent's Park, Temple Bar Gate, Crystal Palace, Tower of London, hunting slaves & slave trade, New Market, Westminster Abbey, St. James' Park, St. Paul's, Suspension bridges: Hammersmith & Hungerford; map of England & Wales., Charing Cross: Liverpool, Edinburgh Castle, Mersey, prison interior, Glasgow, Clyde River, Dublin, Nelson's Pillar, Lisbon, Oporto, bull fight, Spain, earthquake, Madrid, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Granada, Sevilla, Leaning tower at Saragossa, Barcelona, Marseilles & Lyons. With "The Table of Hour of the Situation of Every Cities Around the World" actually a very nice engraved, movable clock showing world cities, night vs. day, * Volume 3: Arctic, Iceland, St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Italy and Switzerland * Volume 4: Egypt, South Africa and Australia Asia. * Volume 5: France, Holland and Germany. * Volume 6: Southeast Asia: Ceylon, Buddhist images, India, Cabool, tiger hunting, indigo, fakirs, Hindoos, French conquest of Madras, Clive in India, Hyderbad, Benares, Sanchi, Bombey, Lueknow, Taj Mahar, Delhi, Lahore, women of Amritsar, Elephanta, views of foreigners stretching their tents in the Himalaya, Kot Kangra Himalayas: Border with Tibet, Cashmere & Ladakh. * Volume 7: Burma, Mandalay, Burmese costume, Buddhist temples, palaces, white elephants, British flag over Burma, Great temple at Ava; raised villages of Malaya, beautiful women of Malacca, view of the port of Singapore, views of Bangkok, King & Queen of Siam, their palace, Siamese aristocrats, Siamese women, Ayutha, elephants; bivouac of M. Mouhot in the forest, Lao women, rhinos, old Vietnam [Tonking], Luang Prabang, Cambodia, Laos, Annam [Viet Nam], China the Great Wall, types of Chinese women, substantial guide to China, Chinese justice, punishment, Peking temples, pagodas, great architecture; Korea, guide to the land, people and language; Japan: Nagasaki, Takashima mines, Kobe port, with a very excellent engraving of Awoki's book shop in Osaka showing Japanese and foreign people browsing ! Shinsai bridge, Osaka castle, Nakanojima park &c. Contains 224 pages, 146 engravings, Japanese and some English captions. * NOTE: The set was first issued in a 5 volume work, later the author added two additional volumes, thus some catalogers were not aware of the last two so the volume numbering varies. See our website scan illus02.jpg for a copy of the colophon of the seven volume set. * BINDING: Each volume is uniformly bound, with a brown cloth spine, over c.…