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Manchurian Railway Construction Record (Manshu Tetsudo Kensetsu-shi): Compiled by the South Manchuria Railway, 1939
Manchurian Railway Construction Record — 1939
An official construction record of the Manchurian railways, compiled by the South Manchuria Railway and published in 1939. The volume sets down the company's own account of how the rail network of the Northeast was surveyed, engineered, and built — a documentary history of the iron arteries through which Manchuria was opened, administered, and bound to the wider region.
Few institutions shaped the modern Northeast as decisively as the South Manchuria Railway, and a construction record issued under its own authority carries the weight of a primary corporate and engineering source. It speaks directly to the planning and execution of one of the great railway undertakings of early twentieth-century Asia, and to the administrative ambition that drove it.
For historians of the South Manchuria Railway, of railway engineering, and of Northeast Asian development, it is a specific and substantial reference — a genuine artefact for a serious collection of South Manchuria Railway and East Asian historical materials.
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
Manchurian Railway Construction Record — 1939
An official construction record of the Manchurian railways, compiled by the South Manchuria Railway and published in 1939. The volume sets down the company's own account of how the rail network of the Northeast was surveyed, engineered, and built — a documentary history of the iron arteries through which Manchuria was opened, administered, and bound to the wider region.
Few institutions shaped the modern Northeast as decisively as the South Manchuria Railway, and a construction record issued under its own authority carries the weight of a primary corporate and engineering source. It speaks directly to the planning and execution of one of the great railway undertakings of early twentieth-century Asia, and to the administrative ambition that drove it.
For historians of the South Manchuria Railway, of railway engineering, and of Northeast Asian development, it is a specific and substantial reference — a genuine artefact for a serious collection of South Manchuria Railway and East Asian historical materials.
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 | N0000016450 |
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