A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity Later black pebble leather

Later black pebble leather

This work documents the exotic tropical fish of coastal and inland southern Mexico and Central America

lettered in gilt on the spine

Text in Japanese but with Latin names and some English phrases used throughout

green endpapers

A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity Later black pebble leatherPp. vi, 293 + 8 full page color plates (from painting by Juzo Kobayashi), 1 large folding map, 1 table. Later red morocco with five gilt decorated raised bands with gilt lettering in two panels and blind stamped birds in four other panels, over rose colored silt cloth, top page edge gilt, folio (15. 25 x 10. 75 inches). This monograph is based primarily on 14 months of fieldwork from 1921 1922 in the Riu Kiu islands (also known as the Loo Cho islands)