BLAKENEY, William. On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago, a Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seabord of Korea and Manchuria. London: Elliot Stock, 1902. First edition, signed by the author on the half-title, 8vo (223 x 139mm.) 72 plates, 1 in colour, 16 maps, 13 folding. (Lacking three maps, two plates torn with significant loss, three maps with significant loss, browning, occasional chipping to margins.) Original pictorial cloth (soiling to covers, frayed to spine ends).