Japan The Port and Harbour of Yokohama [cover-title]
Japan The Port and Harbour of Yokohama [cover-title] [Yokohama: Municipal Harbour Bureau, c.1927]. First edition, 8vo, original buff card wrappers, contents stitched with silk thread either side of central staple, [2] 3 39 [2] pp., 4 folding photographic panoramas, 5 folding maps (one in colour), inscribed 'With the compliment [sic] of Mr C. Ariyoshi, Mayor of Yokohama. To Mr. B. G. Baigent' on front free endpaper, covers spotted and dust-soiled, small split to foot of spine, short closed handling tear to colour map, minor rust-staining to gutter of final leaf. Together with an official photograph album of the funeral procession of Emperor Yoshihito, 1926, oblong 4to album, black silk mourning binding, 16 matte gelatin silver print photographs on rectos and versos of stiff card mounts, title-page in Japanese, contents leaf in English, captions in Japanese, lacking a few tissue-guards Qty: (2) Note: No copies of the Yokohama item traced in UK libraries; five copies traced world-wide. An expanded edition (with 52 pp.) appeared c.1928.
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Japan The Port and Harbour of Yokohama [cover-title] [Yokohama: Municipal Harbour Bureau, c.1927]. First edition, 8vo, original buff card wrappers, contents stitched with silk thread either side of central staple, [2] 3 39 [2] pp., 4 folding photographic panoramas, 5 folding maps (one in colour), inscribed 'With the compliment [sic] of Mr C. Ariyoshi, Mayor of Yokohama. To Mr. B. G. Baigent' on front free endpaper, covers spotted and dust-soiled, small split to foot of spine, short closed handling tear to colour map, minor rust-staining to gutter of final leaf. Together with an official photograph album of the funeral procession of Emperor Yoshihito, 1926, oblong 4to album, black silk mourning binding, 16 matte gelatin silver print photographs on rectos and versos of stiff card mounts, title-page in Japanese, contents leaf in English, captions in Japanese, lacking a few tissue-guards Qty: (2) Note: No copies of the Yokohama item traced in UK libraries; five copies traced world-wide. An expanded edition (with 52 pp.) appeared c.1928.
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