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Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN.…

Large folding map of Australia, 12 black and white photographic plates (11 of wool types) including a final plate of merino sheep, tables and diagrams, 222 + 22pp. Paper evenly browned throughout, paper covered boards, blue contrasting cloth spine, corners bumped, ex library copy with library labels on binding and three stamps in the text. A sound copy. 21 x 15.5 cm, A 1942 Japanese translation of the well known book, Classing the Clip , by an Australian expert, C. E. Cowley. The original book was published in 1928. This illustrated book also contains additional material provided by Kanematsu Gosho, the main Japanese trading house engaged in the wool trade with Australia. Contemporary situations in each state is described briefly in the text. In the Japanese forewords, Kurashige Kiyohisa, an executive of Kanematsu Gosho, mentions the importance of studying Australian wool industry and wool classing as the Pacific War has broken out. He points out that, in spite of substantial amount of wool produced in Manchuria, they are not suitable for textile fabric. Thus, according to him, in order to develop the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, it is important to understand how the wool is grown, classed and processed in Australia.…

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944. 8vo. Orig. cloth (rubbed). (xii, 164pp.). With illust. adverts, 9 mostly coloured full-page plates of which 1 is folding, and text-illusts. Ex-library copy.