Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan [SIGNED by author]
de CORTAZZI, Hugh (1924-2018)
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0834801841
- ISBN 13
- 9780834801844
- Librería
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New York & Tokyo: John Weatherill Inc, 1983. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good/very good. 4to (30.5cm). Terracotta linen backed boards, gilt blocked title to spine, gilt embossed design to front board. In unclipped dust wrapper. Textured taupe coloured endpapers. xvii, 177 inc. bibliography and index. With the laid in folded map inserted to rear, intact. Signed by Cortazzii to half title. Author was UK ambassador to Japan from 1980–84, President of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1982–1983, and Chairman of the Japan Society of London, 1985–95. A significant work it remains a required resource on the subject. Lavishly produced, with 59 fine colour plates, the rest monochrome, of historically significant maps of Japan, by Japanese and Western cartographers, some folding. Page edges slightly darkened, slight spotting to top page edges, minor signs of handling to jacket w/ small nibbles around head of spine, some fade to spine and adjacent areas, still a very bright copy, binding firm.
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- Librería
- tinyBook (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 00005337
- Título
- Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan [SIGNED by author]
- Autor
- CORTAZZI, Hugh (1924-2018)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Original Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0834801841
- ISBN 13
- 9780834801844
- Editorial
- John Weatherill Inc
- Lugar de publicación
- New York & Tokyo
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Japanese arts;
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