Japan - With Korea and Formosa
The Landscape / Architecture / Life Of The People
A very beautiful photographic record of full page photographs (in high quality photo gravure technique)
featuring topography, remarkable sites, culture, arts and people
of Japan, Korea and Formosa.
This precious book was not affordable by too many people at that time.
And there is no other book of that time which comes close to the printing quality of that title.
As photographed by the famous photographers
A. von Graefe, G. von Estorff, Gertrud Fellner, Herbert G. Ponting et al.
Photographs titled in English, German, French, Italian and Japanese Characters.
From the series "Orbis Terrarum" , a series of early photobooks portraying the regions of the world.
1st edition with only 10,000 copies published.
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Hardcover
310 pages, german text
- 256 sepia photos in rotogravure printing
- 54 pages introduction and index of photographs
- 1 map of Japan, Formosa and Korea
- Gilt lettering and decoration
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In good exterior and very good interior condition.
Spine sunned, mild foxing to prelims and top edge, else ok.
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Approx/Measurements: 12-1/4" x 9-3/4" ~3.85 lbs.
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| This item is NO facsimile, or a reprint, it is a real authentic, historical item. German Text. |
from F.M. Trautz
Published by Atlantis, Berlin 1930
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Fuji, Japan's most sacred mountain - Hakodate (Hokkaido) Harbour - Crater near Noboribetsu - Muroran
coast - Lake Onuma - Waterfall near Lake Towada - Paddy fields. Oga Peninsula - Sea of Japan near Niigata -
The Breakers Gate near Matsushima - Bronze lantern, Miyagi-ken, Shiogama - Kanazawa, Kenruku-en Park -
Yariga-take, Japanese Alps - Myogi Mts. - Hodokayama - Yakegadake - Nagano Zenkoji - Kusatsu -
Asamayama seen from Karuizawa - Lake and Mt. Haruna - Kegon waterfall and Lake Chuzenji - Nikko - Narita -
Tokyo seen from the air from S. to N., with Sumida River - Uyeno - Horikiri - Kameido - Kamata - Yokohama
harbour - Honmoku - Kamakura Daibutsu - Torii on Enoshima - Kanaggawa-Ken. Seashore near Ninomiya -
Izu no Oshima - Inatori - Suruga Bay - Lotus pond in Kanazawa - Tokaido. Old state road - Lake Kawaguchi -
Gotemba - Shiraito waterfall - Lake Shoji - Jamanashiken. Temple in Minobu - Kisogawa sailing-boat -
Nachi Waterfall - Castle in Nagoya - Koyasan - Nara. Warehouse of the Toshodaiji - Ama no hashidate -
Kyoto Kinkakugi the Golden Pavillon - Hozukawa - Tsuruga (harbour) - Ishiyamadera - Nunobiki falls near Kobe -
Osaka - Himeji - Inland see near Tomo - Suruga Bay - Miyajima - Southern coast of the island of Shikuku -
Kompira shrine in Kotohira - Ritsurin-en in Takamatsu (Shikoku) - Yashima, salt gardens and Gokensan - Omori.
Ikegami Temple - Fields near Ogori - Umbrella maker in Satsuma - See of Japan near Tajiri - Coast of the Sea of
Japan near Uratomi - Rice harvest near Beppu - Bamboo raft on the Kuma River - Kagoshima. School children in
front of a temple - View of the crater of Aso - Kumamoto. Park - Children in Kagoshima - At the front of the
Aso-san - The volcano of Sakurajima - Suwon (Suigen). City gate - Village near Kyongjyu (Keishu) -
Seoul (Keijo) - Pyöngyang. On the River Daido - Mabo. On the River Kanko - Kongo-san, the Diamond Mountains -
Kai-syong - Shakuo-ji - Lighthouse on South Cape of Formosa - Suo - Urai. Native settlement of the Tayal
tribe - Jitsugetsutan. Lake of the Sun and Moon - Numanohira. Lumber camp - Tainan - Dairin - Taroko Valley -
Noko Pass - Chief of the Paiwan tribe in Raisha - Chief of the Tsou tribe on the Arisan .... and many others
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