2. Sino-Japanese War.- Reports on War Progress in China, edited by the Army Pictorial Agency, 3 vol., Japanese, illustrated throughout with many photographs and maps of China, vignette illustrations, original limp blue patterned boards, rubbed, original slip-case, splitting, small 8vo, Tokyo, Logistics Division of the Japanese Army, December 1938.
est. £300 – £400
Japanese account of the progress on invading China, detailing their attack strategy for areas occupied by the Japanese (as of 1938) as well as the unoccupied areas they are going to attack (including Chongqing and Chengdu). Each chapter provides a brief description of the area, geography and people:
Book I : war progress in Hebei, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shandong and Shanxi;
Book II : Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and Anhui;
Book III : Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Sichuen, Yunnan, Guizhou and Shaanxi.