Author: KAWATA, T.(EDITOR/DIRECTOR),
Title: Nippon Yusen Kaisha's Official Guide. Glimpses of the East 1937Twentieth Annual Issue 1938.
Description: Tokyo, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1938. Large thick 8°, original red calfbacked pictorial coloured cloth, title in gilt lettering at head of upper boards, decorated & lettered spine, c. 700pp. Numerous coloured ills. & plates, charts (incl. a chart depicting the global sea-routes of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line, plain ills., numerous adverts of hundreds of Japanese firms within text & o.o.t., of wich many illustrated, incl. of other Japanese shipping-lines, list of passenger's & freight services, connections of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line, numerous tables depicting the commerce of Japan, classified lists of sellers' & buyers', supplying a wealth of information on Japan's world-wide trading, incl. vast information on 'foreign' ports, products, etc. thumb-indexed. Lavishly illustrated annual publication, incl. suppl. vast information for tourists, in orig. publ. cloth. Good copy. (some general rubbing to extremities & corners, bds. somewh. faded).

Keywords: japan/maritime/tourism