2005 · Taipei
by Davidson, James W.
Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc, 2005. Facsimile edition, 4to, pp. [4], iii, [3], 5, [3], 646, xxviii, 46; color frontispiece, 35 photo-reproductive plates, two color plates, and one color folding map of Taiwan; full blue cloth decorated in gold and red; light spotting on fore edge, text clean and bright, near fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. Originally published in 1903, The island of Formosa past and present is one of the most comprehensive surveys of Taiwan up until the Japanese occupation and is "still the most frequently consulted English language source." (Otness, One Thousand Westerners in Taiwan, to 1945).
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