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3 of 5 volumes. With 63 color maps, all but a few folding, 1 loose in endpaper pocket; illustrations from photographs & other sources. 6¼x4, red cloth lettered in gilt, top edges gilt.

Three volumes of this important early 20th century guide to East Asia, comprising South-Western Japan; North-Eastern Japan; China. This official guide to Japan and East Asia was planned by Shimpei Goto (a leading statesman in the early twentieth century) when he was the first director of South Manchuria Railway Company in 1906 after he had discovered the incompleteness and inaccuracy of the information in the Japanese and Asian guides produced by Western publishers like John Murray and Baedeker.