Title: The Topography of Japan - Inscribed by the "Father" of Japanese Geography Author: Yamasaki, Naomasa Place: Publisher: Date: [1908] Description: Reprinted from the Encyclopedia Americana. 10 pp. (8vo) original printed wrappers. Inscribed on front wrapper, “With the best compliments of the writer”. Considered “the father of modern Japanese geography”, Professor Yamasaki (1870-1929) created the Department of Geography at Tokyo Imperial University and founded the Association of Japanese Geographers. His academic tour de force was as co-editor of a 10-volume Regional Geography of Great Japan that was nearly ten years in the making. Lot Amendments Condition: Light library markings, faint vertical crease; very good. Item number: 241882
Title: The Topography of Japan - Inscribed by the "Father" of Japanese Geography Author: Yamasaki, Naomasa Place: Publisher: Date: [1908] Description: Reprinted from the Encyclopedia Americana. 10 pp. (8vo) original printed wrappers. Inscribed on front wrapper, “With the best compliments of the writer”. Considered “the father of modern Japanese geography”, Professor Yamasaki (1870-1929) created the Department of Geography at Tokyo Imperial University and founded the Association of Japanese Geographers. His academic tour de force was as co-editor of a 10-volume Regional Geography of Great Japan that was nearly ten years in the making. Lot Amendments Condition: Light library markings, faint vertical crease; very good. Item number: 241882
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