An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV CHINA

Tokyo : Department of Railways, 1915. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (label removed from spine), top edges gilt, maps to endpapers (lacking the folding map in rear endpocket), pp. cxxiv; 414; extensively illustrated with numerous maps (many folding and in colour, including Tientsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Foochow, Nanking, Soochow, Canton, Shanghai, Amoy, etc.)..

The China volume from the five volume set of this monumental traveller’s guide to Asia published as individual volumes between 1914 – 1920 (a separate volume, on the Hot Springs of Japan, was issued in 1922).

The five volumes comprise : Vol. I : Chōsen & Manchuria Siberia; Vol. II : South-Western Japan; Vol. III : North-Eastern Japan; Vol. IV : China; Vol. V : East Indies including Phillippine Islands, French Indo-China, Siam, Malay Peninsula, and Dutch East Indies.