Published by Merrell Publishers Ltd 2008, 2008
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Folio, grey heavy card boards, dark grey stamped lettering to spine + front board, illust front + rear eps + prelims, 223 pp, illust, Near Fine ( v slight scuffing to front board + rear ep ).
Published by Imperial Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, 1915
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near fine. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia: Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia, prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways from 1913-1915. Four of the five published volumes. (illustrator). First Edition. Twelvemo, [in four volumes], lxxxvi, 350pp; cciv, 370pp; x, 488pp; cxxiv, 414pp. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Lacking the publisher's dust jackets and slipcase, as usual. Previous ownership notation on the front free endpaper of each volume. All endpapers with maps. Includes numerous fold-out maps in each volume, with early maps of Peking, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Shanghai, South-East Asia and Japan. Complete with all necessary maps. This set is lacking Volume V (1917), which focuses on the East Indies. All printed at the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry for travelers from English-speaking nations, including tourists and "business and capitalists.".