first edition
1930 · Tokyo
by Nishimura, Shinji
Tokyo: Society of Naval Architects, 1930. First edition, large, slim 8vo, pp. [8], [115]-196, [2]; vignette title page, 10 plates (1 in color, 1 loose) and 20 illustrations in the text; covers a little soiled, else generally fine in original printed beige paper-covered boards. Issued as Part IV, Section 3 of Vol. V in the publisher's A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan series. Includes wicker boats in Manchuria, Korea, and Mongolia, skin-boats in China, Tibet and India, French and British coracles, the Eskimo and Aleutian skin-boats, the American bull-boats, etc.
(Inventory #: 29223)