The kagami-no-fune or wicker boat

by Shinji Nishimura

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

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

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