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Tokyo, Japan: The Bureau of Reconstruction, 1929. Original blue buckram, gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt. Tan mottled endsheets. The great earthquake in Japan on September 1, 1923, accompanied by conflagrations that broke out in various parts of the city almost simultaneously, reduced to ashes in a single night the greater portions of Tokyo and Yokohama. This book is a record of the reconstruction of Tokyo and Yokohama, a gigantic work unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. 219 pages with historic photographs. Bound in at the rear of the book are six large fold-out colored maps. With tissue-guarded facsimile of the Imperial Edict on Reconstruction. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office Japan, 1929. orig. cloth. Title in gilt lettering on spine, with 2 narrow gilt borders at spine-ends. (vi), (ix), [1](list of maps, verso blank), 219pp. ills. on plates, many text-ills, facsim. of the original imperial edict on reconstruction on [4]pp. with tissue-guards, many tables in text and full-p. mainly at end, 6 large fold. maps and plans at end of volume, with loosely inserted the complimentary card of Nozomu Nakagawa, Director of the Bureau of Reconstruction, Home Office, Imperial Japanese Government. A complete official report of the reconstruction of Tokyo & Yokohama, stricken by an earthquate 1st September 1923. It was a gigantic work, unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. The report does not only supply vas information on the technical side of the reconstruction-work but also on the financing of the undertaking by foreign aid from the U.S.A.(US.dollar loan), England, private & commercial reconstruction… Read More

Bureau of Reconstruction Home Of, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Slipcase shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.