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Tokyo: Asahi Newspaper Publisher, August 1910 - November 1910. Documents assembled in 1955. 24.2cm. Printed soft covers with black cloth tape spine and paper label; frontispiece full-page sepia toned photograph of the "Kainan Maru" + 16pp table of contents, 300pp text, 9pp. tipped in corrigenda. Title label on spine; text in Japanese. Housed in a custom fold-out container covered in red silk with printed spine and cover labels. Very Rare and in Near Fine condition. Ross 5.3.AA publication containing private internal documents and bound by the Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo. Marked (in Kanji) 'For Internal Use Only' and 'Not For Sale'. Tokyo Asahi Newspaper was a major sponsor of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912, so very likely few were produced as these were most likely meant to be used internally among the higher-ups at Asahi. The significance of this publication is the unique information provided by one of the primary sponsors of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. The Content's titles indicate… Read More
