(ARCHEOLOGY CHINA) Hamada Kosaku P I Tzu Wo Prehistoric S

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(ARCHEOLOGY--CHINA.) Hamada, Kosaku. P' I-Tzu-Wo - Prehistoric Sites by the River Pi-liu-ho, South Manchuria. Archaeologia Orientalis Volume I. 69 plates (several folding) including frontispiece, 41 leaves of full-page text figures, text in Japanese and English. Folio, 13 3/4x10 1/2 inches, 1/2 gilt cloth over printed paper boards, extremities lightly rubbed; internally clean, early gift inscription in ink on front endpaper, rear pastedown with ink stamp "Made in Occupied Japan". Tokyo and Kyoto: The Toa-Kokogaku-Kwai or The Far-Eastern Archeological Society, 1929

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Profuse illustrations of Chinese antiquities excavated during a major archeological dig in southern Manchuria in 1927 led by Kosaku Hamada, professor of archeology at, and eventual president of, Kyoto University. Full-page and folding plates are maps, excavation activities, and collections of pottery, human bones, ancient coins, implements and weapons made of iron, bronze, stone and bone which were unearthed by the Japanese team.