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True Record of the Sino-Japanese War (Nisshin Senso Jikki): Complete Set of 50 Volumes, 1894
True Record of the Sino-Japanese War (Nisshin Sensō Jikki) — Complete Set of Fifty Volumes, 1894
An imposing complete set of all fifty volumes of the True Record of the Sino-Japanese War, published from 1894 as the conflict itself unfolded. Issued serially while the war was being fought, the work assembles a near-contemporaneous chronicle of the first Sino-Japanese War — its campaigns and engagements, dispatches, illustrations, and reportage — gathered into a single monumental run of fifty parts.
Few primary sources convey the texture of the 1894–95 war as immediately as this serialised record, compiled and printed in step with events rather than in retrospect. A complete fifty-volume set is a genuine rarity: such serials were read hard and rarely preserved entire, and surviving runs of this scope seldom come to market. For historians of modern East Asia, of Meiji-era print culture, and of the war that reshaped the regional order, it is a documentary source of the first magnitude.
A substantial and authentic artefact of its moment, well suited to a serious collection of military-historical documents and East Asian historical materials.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.
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True Record of the Sino-Japanese War (Nisshin Sensō Jikki) — Complete Set of Fifty Volumes, 1894
An imposing complete set of all fifty volumes of the True Record of the Sino-Japanese War, published from 1894 as the conflict itself unfolded. Issued serially while the war was being fought, the work assembles a near-contemporaneous chronicle of the first Sino-Japanese War — its campaigns and engagements, dispatches, illustrations, and reportage — gathered into a single monumental run of fifty parts.
Few primary sources convey the texture of the 1894–95 war as immediately as this serialised record, compiled and printed in step with events rather than in retrospect. A complete fifty-volume set is a genuine rarity: such serials were read hard and rarely preserved entire, and surviving runs of this scope seldom come to market. For historians of modern East Asia, of Meiji-era print culture, and of the war that reshaped the regional order, it is a documentary source of the first magnitude.
A substantial and authentic artefact of its moment, well suited to a serious collection of military-historical documents 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 | N0000003035 |
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