Many double-page & full-page woodcuts throughout. 12 vols. 8vo, orig. pale blue semi-stiff wrappers, most title-slips absent, new stitching. Osaka: Fujiya Tokubei 藤屋徳兵衛 & Edo: Suharaya Mohei 須原屋茂兵衛, 1827.

Second edition (1st ed.: 1766) of the “first treatise on the history and technology of ships in Japan…[It] was written in 1761 and published five years later by Kanemitsu Kanazawa, who came from a family in Osaka with a long shipwrighting tradition. In the introduction of this treatise, the author explains that he used the documents which his ancestors had collected for two hundred years. The treatise consists of 12 volumes... More