The kame-no-se or turtle shell

by Shinji Nishimura

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Tokyo: Society of Naval Architects, 1929. First edition, large, slim 8vo, pp. 6 , 61 - 114, 1 ; vignette title page, 4 plates 1 in color and 9 illustrations in the text; generally fine in original printed beige paper-covered boards. Issued as Part IV, Section 2 of Vol. V in the publisher's A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan series. Includes earliest records of turtle-boats, medieval turtle-shell boats, Japanese myths relating to turtles, etc. Item #29222

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