YAMAZAKI, Kinichiro (ed.). Koi kagayaku chusi no tenbo: Shanhai, Nankin, Soshu, Koshu. Wakayama: Taisho Shashin Kogeisho, 1938. Small 4° (262 x 190mm). Colour-printed map and 54 plates of black and white photo-reproductions on 51 leaves, three folding, some tinted, with printed guards. (A few leaves browned.) Original black cloth, upper side blocked in red and gilt, spine block in gilt, printed endpapers (gilt faded from spine and less so from the upper side), original printed slipcase (extremities worn, a few small losses). Provenance: Japanese bookseller (small ticket).

YAMAZAKI, Kinichiro (ed.). Koi kagayaku chusi no tenbo: Shanhai, Nankin, Soshu, Koshu. Wakayama: Taisho Shashin Kogeisho, 1938. Small 4° (262 x 190mm). Colour-printed map and 54 plates of black and white photo-reproductions on 51 leaves, three folding, some tinted, with printed guards. (A few leaves browned.) Original black cloth, upper side blocked in red and gilt, spine block in gilt, printed endpapers (gilt faded from spine and less so from the upper side), original printed slipcase (extremities worn, a few small losses). Provenance: Japanese bookseller (small ticket).

Almost certainly the first edition of a work later reprinted a number of times both in Shanghai and Wakayama between 1938 and 1941, when the title was changed to include Buko and Kanko. RARE: this edition apparently not in WorldCat.