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Album oblong folio (260 x 365 mm) 4 nn.ll., 1 map, 1 portrait, 99 plates, 1 nn.l. (colophon). Original publishers’ binding in Japanese style, decorated cloth, spine with visible stitching, cardboard slipcase with printed title, in modern floral cloth slipcase.
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First edition.
Beginning with a portrait of Masayuki Matsuda, director of the South Pacific Agency, the work is a rich iconographic documentation of the archipelagos of the South Pacific, including Saipan, Palau, Angaoul, Truck, Pohnpei (formerly Ponape), Kusai, Yali Island and the Marshall Islands, with details of architecture, industry and personalities.
A very rare document.
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