1880 · Gifu
by Miura, Chiaru (Takahiro Ikeda, illus.)
Gifu: Miura Jouzaburou, 1880. 2 vols, fukurotoji, 8.5 x 6 in, ff. 4,2, 1 (numbered 7), 36; 33, 3; 15 color woodblock illustrations, most double-page; blue paper wrappers; title label on first volume perished, light worming mostly to fore edges and neatly repaired, very good. Mino is an historical province located in what is now Gifu Prefecture. The first volume is largely on cormorant fishing, with image of the birds, boats and tools used. This is likely the second printing, with a record of one earlier printing in January of the same year. Berkeley and LOC the only US institutions with records in OCLC, with 16 Japanese institutions in Ci.nii.
(Inventory #: 67233)