From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese

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New York, 1905. First printing of the first edition. Copyright page states, "Published November, 1904." With a frontis. portrait of Emperor Meiji in his fifties. Presumed printed and bound in the USA. 7.5 x 5 inches. This copy signed/inscribed by the author. Red buckram binding. To the front board an intaglio design in red and white of the Japanese Imperial flag. Black lettering to the front board and spine. Very gently bumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. A clean and appealing binding. The text block is firmly bound in. T.E.G. With xv and 268 numbered pages. With 43 full-page B&W photo illustrations on semi-glossy stock. Technically ex-library but the only such indication is a slip-card holder to the rear pastedown, else free of any library markings. The interior is immensely clean, and no stains or underlining or age toning in evidence. Rated a Very Good to Very Good Plus copy. Scarce in any condition. 1 lb. 6 oz. weight. Published during the Meiji Restoration Era. On the front FEP in a neat ink hand, inscribed "Hoping the lesson taught by this little volume will prove timely to our own countrymen. I am very truly, Louis Livingston Seaman. New York. June 3, 1916." Seaman was a major and surgeon, U.S.V., in the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars and with the allied armies in the Boxer Campaign in China. This book recounts his service in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War; he included information on military medicine, hospital conditions, treatment of prisoners, naval battles, Russian soldiers and submarine mines, China, Manchurian bandits, and more. N° de ref. del artículo 008052

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