Description
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.
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.”
