History / General History from Akros Books

Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways, 1930. Measures approximately 6 1/8" x 9". This book consists of 64 full color plates of the people and places of Japan, with text descriptions below each photo. Includes a color, fold-out map of Japan. Silk-covered boards. Paper label on front cover. All edges gilt. Dampstaining to covers and endpapers. The pages show dampstaining only in… Read more

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1882. 109 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Ex-library (Bowdoin College - withdrawn), with a small library sticker on the spine, embossed stamp on title page and on page 55, and stickers on front and rear pastedowns. Bright blue hardcover with gilt pyramid and star is worn at the edges and fraying at the head/tail of the… Read more

London: John Murray, 1914. 245 pages.Black-and-white illustrations. Ex-technical library (B.F. Goodrich Co.), with the usual stamps, numbers on spine, and remnants of card pocket on rear endpaper. Library binding. Dark red hardcover has wear and fraying to edges and corners. Small tears to gutters of first few pages. Pages are heavily age toned, with a few smudges. Small pencil marks… Read more

Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1978. 209 pages. Ex-library with the usual stamps, stickers, card pocket, etc. Hardcover has wear to corners. Small tear to top edge of title page and following page. Other than library markings, no writing on text pages. Dust jacket worn at corner, head/tail of spine.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.… Read more

New York: International Book Company Vol. I (467 pages) and Vol II (490 pages). No date, circa 1900. Brown hardcovers with title in gilt on spine have wear and soiling, some chipping to top and bottom of spine. Pages are age browned with some foxing (especially endpapers.) Page edges darkened. Corners of a few pages are turned down. Bindings are… Read more