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Includes: Earthquake Pictorial Edition: Part One [cover title]. Photographs captioned in English and Japanese. 21.2x30.5 cm. (8½x12"), original wrappers, purple ribbon, bound to be read from right to left. The Osaka Mainichi, 1923. * Earthquake Pictorial of Japan, 1st September 1923. Photographs captioned in English and Japanese. 19x26.7 cm. (7½x10½"), white linen wrappers, purple ribbon. [1923]. * Souvenir Album of the Great Earthquake and Fire in Japan, September 1, 1923 [cover title]. Photographs captioned in Japanese, some folding, and including 1 in color, plus a few color maps. 22.5x30.5 cm. (8¾x12"), original pictorial boards, bound to be read from right to left. [1923]. Together 3 volumes.

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 struck Tokyo and Yokohama, and resulted in nearly 100,000 lives lost, plus the destruction of these important cities.