*Le Japon dans le monde. L'expansion nippone 1854-1934*

Zischka, Antoine

By Antoine Zischka

Paris

Payot

Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de notre temps

Not identified

1934

Paris: Payot, 1934

French

First printing

French

First printing, September 1934

311 pages

24 photographs

9 maps

Octavo (8vo)

22.5 × 14.5 cm

Not identified

Wove paper

No visible watermarks

Letterpress printing with good inking quality and excellent legibility

Half-leather binding with cloth-covered boards

Dark brown spine and brown boards

Spine with gilt rules and gilt titles; marbled endpapers

Brown leather spine with gilt titles and the initials "A.G." at the foot

Study of the political, economic and military expansion of Japan between 1854 and 1934. It examines the transformation of the Japanese state, its planned economy, industrial structures, armed forces, colonial expansion throughout Asia and the Pacific, and its geopolitical consequences. The work includes 24 photographs, 9 maps and an extensive documentary appendix with statistical information.

Published in the series Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de notre temps

First printing issued in September 1934

Preserves its quality half-leather binding with cloth-covered boards and marbled endpapers

Includes 24 photographs and 9 maps

Retains the gilt initials "A.G." on the spine, corresponding to Alfred Gallart i Genis

Modern Japanese history

Geopolitics, Japanese imperialism, colonial expansion, military history, planned economy, international relations, East Asia, Twentieth century

0478

Very good overall condition; slight wear to the spine; clean and well-preserved interior

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Copy bound in half leather with cloth-covered boards, marbled endpapers and gilt initials "A.G." on the spine.