Sekai ryoko bankoku meisho zue. Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers round the World. Five volumes in seven, accompanied by a folding Map of the World in illustrated wrappers.. Illustrated with hundreds of woodcut illustrations

1885. AWOKI, T. and J. SUSUKA. Sekai ryoko bankoku meisho zue. Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers round the World. Five volumes in seven. Illustrated with hundreds of woodcut illustrations including a volvelle, accompanied by a folding Map of the World in illustrated boards. 145 x 95 mm. each, bound in original publisher's cloth-backed illustrated paper over boards. Osaka: Sanyodo, 1885. A fine set of this scarce Japanese guide to the world which offers a magnificently eccentric vision of the World at the end of the nineteenth century as viewed by the Japanese just as they were coming out of centuries of isolation. A very aesthetic object of great rarity. OCLC lists only a set in the National Library of Australia, a partial set and an odd volume.