Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku - The Imperial University of Tokyo.

First edition. 59 collotype plates (incl. 1 double-page panorama) with English and Japanese captions (portrait captions on facing tissue-guards). Oblong folio. Original blind-stamped cloth, (minor damage to tail-caps), title-page with cut-out, not affecting the text. Minor repairs to head- and tail-caps. Still a very good copy. A.e.g. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Ogawa Kazumasa, dated: Meiji 33 [i.e. 

An extremely rare Ogawa publication of Tokyo University. Founded in 1886 it was the first of seven Imperial Universities in Japan. The images had originally been shown at the International Exhibition at Paris in April 1900. "The collection consist of photographs of the principal buildings, museums, laboratories and several other important places, belonging to the University, as well as those of most of the University officers [heads of departments], including three former Presidents. It is, therefore, the best and most complete set of photographs ever produced of this kind, and may prove not only very interesting to the general public, but also useful to those interested in the University; for these reasons the undersigned had obtained special permission from the University to publish it." (Introduction). Only 3 copies in OCLC. 

Stock Code: 247039