臺北帝國大學第臺回海南島學術調查報告 / ... Dai ikkai Kainantou gakujutsu chousa houkoku [= First Hainan Island science survey report]

Taihoku (Taipei): Taihoku Imperial University, 1942. Large 8vo, pp. [6], 588, [2]; 46 composite plates, plus text illustrations, and a folding chart; text in Japanese; full blue cloth; boards bowed, edges spotted, text clean with an addenda slip pasted on to title page and some plate images censored, possibly due to military sensitivities; very good in a torn but intact thin dust jacket. This survey of Hainan includes material on natural history, economics, agriculture, and ethnography, with images of landscapes, livestock and native people, including their handcrafts and tattoos. At the time of publication Japan was in partial control of the island.