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TAKA-TSUKASA (NOUSUKE, PRINCE) The Birds of Nippon, 8 parts bound in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "with the compliments of N. Taka-Tsukasa" on the upper wrapper of Part 2, and with author's compliment slip pasted on half-title and 2 wrappers, [London and Tokyo], [1932]-1943 image 1
TAKA-TSUKASA (NOUSUKE, PRINCE) The Birds of Nippon, 8 parts bound in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "with the compliments of N. Taka-Tsukasa" on the upper wrapper of Part 2, and with author's compliment slip pasted on half-title and 2 wrappers, [London and Tokyo], [1932]-1943 image 2
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TAKA-TSUKASA (NOUSUKE, PRINCE)
The Birds of Nippon, 8 parts bound in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "with the compliments of N. Taka-Tsukasa" on the upper wrapper of Part 2, and with author's compliment slip pasted on half-title and 2 wrappers, [London and Tokyo], [1932]-1943

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TAKA-TSUKASA (NOUSUKE, PRINCE)

The Birds of Nippon, 8 parts bound in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "with the compliments of N. Taka-Tsukasa" on the upper wrapper of Part 2, and with author's compliment slip pasted on half-title and 2 wrappers, title printed in red and black, hand-painted frontispiece design of a Green Pheasant by Koyo Ishizaki, 18 coloured plates after Gronvold, Higashi, and Kobayashi, 30 photographic plates, 3 folding maps printed in colours, 5 illustrations in the text, 2 folding letterpress tables, author's inserted note to binder at p.62, original blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, all the original parts wrappers (with the errata, etc. pasted on as issued) bound in [Nissen IVB 921, parts 1-7 only; BM(NH) VIII, p.1283, incomplete], 4to, [London and Tokyo], [1932]-1943

Footnotes

SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF PRINCE TAKA-TSUKASA'S BIRDS OF NIPPON, including the exceptionally rare Part 8, no copy of which is recorded in NUC or BMC(NH). This was published in 1943, a full five years after the appearance of Part 7. The author, President of the Ornithological Society of Japan, blames the delay on "trivial matters requisit to the publication" and an "annual increase of the reports and notes useful and interesting" which he wished to incorporate into this final part, rather than the commencement of the war.

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