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Manchukuo National Railway: Construction Survey of the Meitong Line (CONFIDENTIAL), 1937
Manchukuo National Railway — Construction Survey of the Meitong Line (Confidential), 1937
An exceptionally rare internal survey documenting the construction of the Meitong Line under the Manchukuo National Railway, prepared in 1937 at the height of the railway's northern expansion. Issued as a restricted document, this volume was never intended for public circulation: its pages set out the engineering, route planning, and logistical particulars regarded at the time as matters of state confidentiality.
The work survives complete with its original confidential markings and the impressed seals and stickers of the South Manchuria Railway, the institution that administered the region's vast rail network. Such administrative provenance markings are precisely what scholars and serious collectors seek, as they anchor the document firmly within the operational machinery of the period rather than later commemorative reissue.
For historians of Northeast Asia, Japanese colonial infrastructure, and railway engineering, this is a primary source of the first order — a confidential planning record that speaks directly to how the railway frontier of 1930s Manchuria was surveyed, financed, and built. Items of this sensitivity and survival rarely reach the market.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Description & Historical Context
Manchukuo National Railway — Construction Survey of the Meitong Line (Confidential), 1937
An exceptionally rare internal survey documenting the construction of the Meitong Line under the Manchukuo National Railway, prepared in 1937 at the height of the railway's northern expansion. Issued as a restricted document, this volume was never intended for public circulation: its pages set out the engineering, route planning, and logistical particulars regarded at the time as matters of state confidentiality.
The work survives complete with its original confidential markings and the impressed seals and stickers of the South Manchuria Railway, the institution that administered the region's vast rail network. Such administrative provenance markings are precisely what scholars and serious collectors seek, as they anchor the document firmly within the operational machinery of the period rather than later commemorative reissue.
For historians of Northeast Asia, Japanese colonial infrastructure, and railway engineering, this is a primary source of the first order — a confidential planning record that speaks directly to how the railway frontier of 1930s Manchuria was surveyed, financed, and built. Items of this sensitivity and survival rarely reach the market.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Collation
| Category | Books |
|---|---|
| Condition | acceptable |
| SKU | N0000016641 |
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