Author: SHIPPING-T. KAWATA (ED. & PUBL.),
Title: N.Y.K. Official Guide. Glimpses of the East. Nippon Yusen Kaisha's (N.Y.K. Line) Official Guide for Shippers & Travellers to all the Principal Ports of the World. 1931 Fourtheenth Annual Issue 1932.
Description: Tokyo, N.Y.K, 1932. Large thick 8°, calf backed pictorial gilt tooled cloth, 20 (adverts.), 17, over 600pp., numerous coloured & plain ills. & plates, adverts, numerous tables in text & full-p., coloured double-p. endpaper-map depicting N.Y.K. shipping lines all over the world, indexes (incl. advertisers), thumb indexed. (US $ 325,00) This official guide supplies vast info. (also for tourists!) on ships & shipping-lines, trade, products, &c.. from all over the world, beautifully illustrated. Covers Japan, Straits Settlements, Indonesia, Taiwan, Chosen, Hong Kong, French Indo-China, Burma, Ceylon, Australia, South Africa, Hawaiian Islands, U.S.A., Europe, &c.. A very nice copy. (bds. somewh. shaved, esp. on rims, endpaper map damaged on joint but skilfully restored).

Keywords: maritime/tourism