Togo by Seppings Wright: First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, 1-280 pp. Blue cloth with a mounted illustration done in red, black, blue, and grey on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. With the bookbinder stamp of W.H. Smith & Son of London on the free front endpaper. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings with a plethora of plates containing black and white photographs and drawings by the author. Encylopedia Britannica, "Togo Heihachiro: Japanese admiral". Admiral Heihachiro was instrumental in the Japanese victory over the Russians during the Russo-Japanese war. He was highly innovative when it came to naval battle tactics, and for ten years Heihachiro was in charge of the future Emperor Hirohito's education. Wright's memoir provides an entertaining and historically significant account of the Japanese navy and its command. Light foxing to the textblock, one of the plates detached but laid in and present. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. XVi pp + 280 pages and 116 photo plates, illustrations and drawings by the author, navy blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine, pasted-down illustration on cover, a fairly large ex-libris label on the back board "P. H. Foley, Stoke Edith" contemporary with the age of the book, a name has been lightly scratched out on the inside front board, contents and covers very clean other than the above. Octavo. 1905. *Note: Known as the Nelson of the East Tōgō Heihachirō is still revered in Japan today. The Author (illustrator).…

1st edition. 280 pages. Illustrated navy cloth boards with gilt title on spine in very good condition. Internally clean with numerous photographic plates.