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Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan [SIGNED by author]
by CORTAZZI, Hugh (1924-2018)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0834801841
- ISBN 13
- 9780834801844
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About This Item
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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- Title
- Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan [SIGNED by author]
- Author
- CORTAZZI, Hugh (1924-2018)
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0834801841
- ISBN 13
- 9780834801844
- Publisher
- John Weatherill Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York & Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japanese arts;
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