[Japan] General view of Commerce & Industry in the Empire of Japan.

Published by The Bureau of Commerce Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Japan. Tokyo, Y. Yamaguchi, 1897, (6),315,(2) p., with large folding map of Japan, large folding plan of Tokyo and double-page plans of Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Hakodate and Niigate, original gilt-lettered purple cloth.

With here and there minor defects such as wormholes in p. 1-2 and in the cloth on the front board, binding discoloured. Lovely pocket guide for foreign visitors, the introduction speaks of "brief outlines of the commercial and industrial state of the country (...) minute details could not be given owing to the shortness of time", however, instead the work provides in its more than 300 pages a huge amoung of detailed information.