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TADA, Keiichi. Fugen jissa Nan'yo Nishi Boruneo [in English: Research in the South Seas West Borneo]. Tokyo: Kobundo Syoten, 1917.
8vo (191 x 127 mm). 6 full-page plates, 2 maps including foldout, numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Original decorative boards printed in red, white, black and olive (spine a bit sunned, some rubbing at extreme ends and corners). (Marginal browning).
FIRST EDITION of Keiichi Tada’s account of his Borneo expedition and research related to the environment, local industry, cannibals, life and culture, food, and native customs. Tada led an adventurous life, so his exploits and explorations continued after the Japanese Antarctic Expedition and up until his death in 1959. Ross 1.10.A (“Very Rare”).