Author: HALL CHAMBERLAIN, B. & W.B. MASON,
Title: A Handbook for travellers in Japan. Including the whole Empire from Yezo[ Hokkaido Island] to Formosa. 7th edn, revised.
Description: London-Yokohama-Shanghai-Hongkong-Singapore, 1903. sm. thick 8°. original coloured limp cloth, gilded title on cover and spine. (ix), 586, [1, verso blank]pp. hftitle (with an illustrated advert on verso), frontisp.(fold.index-map with key to sectional maps), large fold. col. map with legenda in endpocket, 28 other fold. col. maps with legenda, fold. plans, many text-ills, 1 fold. rainfall-map, tabs. in text, vocabularies & glossaries, 68pp. of partly illustrated advert. at end of volume, and 2 ads. on verso of upper cover and recte of endpocket, indexed (incl. and index to advert.). Murray's Handbookseries. This tourist-guide supplies a true wealth of information on any subject thinkable, the guide is divided in tog. VIII sections, with tog. 83 recommended itineraries described in full detail. (apart from some light bumping to corners without real damage a very fine copy of a rare guide).

Keywords: singapore/tourism/japan