Try Jay Cordeiro, Northeast Natural History Co., Middleboro, MA.,
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Rich


At 04:20 PM 5/18/2014, you wrote:
>Thursday I walked into the shell room at ASU and found a lovely old
>book on my work table. I learned that it was received with the
>collection of Chester Melville (of Massachussetts) back in 1966.
>Because it appeared to be valuable, it had been placed in a cabinet
>to protect it, and it just came back to light during our move to a
>new building.
>
>The book is ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPANESE AQUATIC PLANTS AND ANIMALS
>VOLUME TWO It was printed in 1932 by Tokyo Fisheries Society of
>Japan (Dai-Nihon Suisan-Kwai), 1 Tameike, Akasaka.
>
>The book is larger than legal-size paper, and is bound not with
>glue, but by a white (silk?) cord tied through two holes at the left
>margin. The cover is cardboard covered in a rusty colored fabric
>that looks like raw silk. The pages are all glossy. On one page is
>names and other information regarding beautiful colored
>illustrations. The information is presented in Japanese at the left,
>and in English at the right. The illustrations are on the following
>page and each page is separated by tracing paper. The book is a work of art.
>
>The cover is a bit worn at the corners where the fabric has worn
>away from the cardboard. But otherwise it is in very good condition.
>The illustrations are of all manner of marine life from seaweeds to
>Cephalopods and other molluscs, to fish, etc.
>
>Do any of you know who could help us get the book valued? We plan to
>keep it and may put it on display in a glass case if practical. If
>it is valuable, we want to insure it for a proper amount. I ask you
>because the book might have one kind of value to a bookseller and
>another value to conchologists and malacologists.
>
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