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Station Traffic Survey (Ekisei Ippan): Complete in 4 Volumes, South Manchuria Railway Transportation Department, 1913
Station Traffic Survey (Ekisei Ippan) — Complete in Four Volumes, 1913
A scarce early survey of station traffic and operations, issued in 1913 by the Transportation Department of the South Manchuria Railway and here complete in all four volumes. Dating from the formative years of the railway's administration, the set assembles the operational particulars of its stations — the traffic, the lines, and the working data by which a young rail network measured and managed itself across the region.
Internal operational surveys of this age rarely survive, still less as a complete multi-volume set. As a primary source the work speaks directly to the early-twentieth-century build-out of Northeast Asian rail infrastructure, documenting the network at a depth that narrative histories cannot match. The presence of all four volumes, one of them retaining its original errata slip, makes this an unusually full and serviceable example for research.
A genuine documentary set of the period, well suited to 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
Station Traffic Survey (Ekisei Ippan) — Complete in Four Volumes, 1913
A scarce early survey of station traffic and operations, issued in 1913 by the Transportation Department of the South Manchuria Railway and here complete in all four volumes. Dating from the formative years of the railway's administration, the set assembles the operational particulars of its stations — the traffic, the lines, and the working data by which a young rail network measured and managed itself across the region.
Internal operational surveys of this age rarely survive, still less as a complete multi-volume set. As a primary source the work speaks directly to the early-twentieth-century build-out of Northeast Asian rail infrastructure, documenting the network at a depth that narrative histories cannot match. The presence of all four volumes, one of them retaining its original errata slip, makes this an unusually full and serviceable example for research.
A genuine documentary set of the period, well suited to 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 | N0000002920 |
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