![Stock ID #177408 朝陽閣カン賞. [Chōyōkaku kanshō]. [Japanese Book of Gold Thread and...](/pictures/thumb/177408.jpg?v=1678346168)
[Japan]. No publisher. Meiji 16 [ 1883]. Japanese accordion style book (orihon), 10 numbered double page colour lithograph illustrations (multiple images per page), 24.7 x 17.5 cm, patterned cloth-covered boards. Some soiling, wear to cover extremities, some even browning to pages but overall the contents are in very good condition..... More
![Stock ID #180379 [Album of Ninety-Seven Silver Gelatin Photographs of Southern China]. EARLY 20TH...](/pictures/thumb/180379.jpg?v=1678150823)
(circa 1920). Ninety-seven small silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from 6 x 8.5cm to 14.5 x 8.5cm. All but two of photographs are laid down on the black card leaves of the small photograph album 14.7 x 20cm, two photographs loosely inserted. Some fading and silvering, one corner chipped..... More
![Stock ID #175029 [River Scene in Annam]. EMILE GSELL, ATTRIBUTED](/pictures/thumb/175029.jpg?v=1677551446)
[Saigon]. [circa 1866]. Albumen silver photograph 20.2 x 25.9 cm, image inscribed "No. 36." lower left, mounted on album card, 26 x 33.8 cm, pencil inscription (in part indecipherable) in French "Courses Annam... (Cochin?)" to the the lower mount, in very good condition. Emile Gsell learned photography in the military..... More
![Stock ID #170836 東海道五十三次雙録. [Tōkaidō gojūsan‐tsugi sugoroku]. [53...](/pictures/thumb/170836.jpg?v=1679074272)
東京. [Tokyo]. 片田長治郎. [Katada, Chōjūrō]. 明治 21 [ 1888]. Colour woodblock sugoroku, 37.5 x 48.5cm, upper margin trimmed, small chip right margin, occasional barely visible pin holes. A bright attractive copy. In this colourful sugoroku game, players travel from Kyoto to Tokyo through 53 stations of the Tokaido, the end..... More
No place of publication. No date. (Circa 1910). 50 coloured photographs - each 22.5 x 14.8cm, laid down on dark green 'Arches' type paper bound in padded silk boards, decorated with a pine needle and crane design, silk tassled knots secure the expertly rebacked binding. Original embossed endpapers slightly sunned..... More