Hong Kong. South China Morning Post. 1975. Map, coloured illustrated plates, xii + 180pp, index, bibliography, notes, hardback in lightly worn dustjacket on edges. Map is minimally foxed, otherwise good condition. "The new study of the life of the British artist, George Chinnery (1774-1852) has been prepared by Robin Hutcheon...
London. Leo Cooper. 1994. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xv + 265pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good hardback copy in dustjacket with very lightly faded spine. "A number of those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese during the Second World War and have subsequently written of their...
New York. Scribner's. 1979. Colour and black and white illustrations, 183pp, index, bibliography, neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, paperback, quarto. This book looks at the history of embroidery in China, Japan and Korea and explains the techniques used in each of these countries. (When referring to...
London. Joseph. 1951. Reprint. Endpaper maps, text illustrations, 318pp, dustjacket torn with loss, otherwise very good. Account of the author's life in North Borneo with her husband Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture of North Borneo in the years leading up to World War II. (When referring to this...
London. Hale. 1955. Black and white photographic plates, 264pp, signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, endpapers lightly browned, two leaves little marked, good copy in worn and creased dustjacket. The author returns to Indonesia in the period following World War II to look for his Javanese wife. The...
Djakarta. P.T. Gunung Agung. 1962. Folding map, black and white illustrations, 105pp, a little browning, original wrappers stained and worn with a little minor loss at corners and head of spine. This booklet has been compiled primarily to give the early 1960s visitor a concise survey of the characteristics and...
Geboren Te Padang. Indonesia. (c. 1970). xii + 200pp, bibliography, erratum slip loosely inserted, card covers a little worn and marked but generally very good. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163366).
Tokyo. Tuttle. 2019. Coloured illustrations. 111pp, quarto, hardback in dustjacket. Here, beautifully illustrated and presented in both English and Japanese, are 12 of the best Japanese folktales - shared with generation after generation of Japanese children. These charming tales engage your imagination as you're carried on turtle-back rides, brought to...
誠文堂新光社. Showa 18 [1943]. Maps, 10 colour plates showing Japanese war artists work, profusely illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations, [10]pp + 296pp + [12]pp + 49pp, 30.5 cm x 22 cm. Very good in glassine dustjacket and card slipcase. This book is about the Great East Asia War...
松野米次郎, Meiji 27 [1894]. Colour woodblock showing 15 examples of bonsai, 37.6 cm x 24.8cm, very nice copy. Published by Matsuno Yonejiro, a book shop owner in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, in August 1894 the year the bookshop opened. The exact date of publication is not recorded. Matsuno Yonejiro...
大阪朝日新聞. Taisho 14 [1925]. Colour folding sugoroku featuring a map at its centre publlished as a supplement to Osaka Asahi Shinbun no. 15818 on 20 Dec 1925. 54.3 cm x 78.2 cm. Some light browning along lower margin, occasional spotting, few tiny holes at folds, small chip upper left margin...
さ・え・ら書房. Showa 38 [1963]. Very attractive double page colour pictorial map, most of the book is made up of cartoons printed in a variety of different colours of ink, some text follows, 165pp. Pictorial paper covered boards in slightly damaged and browned dustjacket. Edges very lightly foxed. 21.5 cm x....
Meiji 43 [1910]. Colour folding sugoroku, 53.5 cm x 72.8 cm. Issued as a supplement to Tokyo Asahi Shinbun published on 1 January Meiji 43 [1910] (no. 8397). A little light even browning, some careless folding and small holes at folds, few minor chips and creases along margins. Some soiling...
社團法人同盟通信社, 26 July Showa 8 [1933]. Broadsheet showing black and white photographic image of employees involved in gas raid training with accompanying text in Japanese. 26.6 cm x 38.8 cm, Sheet evenly browned, corners a little chipped with pin holes at corners, closed tear upper edge. Good copy. This broadsheet...
吉川弘文館. Showa 38 [1963]. Illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations throughout, 319pp, index, appendix. Hardback in original glassine wrapper. Good copy. 18.8 cm x 13.2 cm This is a book for viewing or Buddha. It contains information on pictures and statues that will be helpful during actual viewing. The...
妙心寺, Showa 52 [1977]. Colour plate, illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Bookplate front free endpaper, spine faded.Text in Japanese with the list of exhibits in English, 25.8 cm x18.3 cm An illustrated catalogue of treasures from Myoshin-ji Temple, including portraits and other paintings, folding screens, calligraphy, handcrafts...
大谷婦人法話會名古屋支部. 明治四十一(1908). Small leaflet printed double sided, 5 folds, 105.5 cm x 39.5 cm, little light foxing otherwise very good. This small leaflet was published to accompany the 7th talk in a series given at a Oyama School Buddhist women's conference held at this Nagoya temple in 1908. Includes the...
United Kingdom. Modern Books. 2019. Photographic illustrations, 112pp in hardback. Introducing and explaining some of the most poignant Japanese words, Ikigai is a lifestyle as well as a language book. From the wistful poetry of mono-no-aware, a word that asks us to recognize the bittersweet transience of all things, to...
United Kingdom. Royal Botanic Gardens. 2016. Index, coloured plates, 252pp, quarto, paperback. Japanese indigenous plants have fascinated botanists and horticulturalists for the past two centuries, and their discoveries still have a strong influence on the plants of today. Botanists such as Kaempfer, Thunberg, von Siebold, and Maximowicz visited Japan between...
Tokyo. 日刊工業新聞社. Showa 52 [1977]. 3rd Edition. Black and white charts and diagrams, 484pp, appendices, remains of bookplate front free endpaper, ribbon bookmark, vinyl coated card covers with worn dustjacket in damaged card slipcase. Terms listed and defined in Japanese giving English equivalents, index also in English. (When referring to...
小学館. Shogaku Ichinensei, Showa 12 [1937]. Brightly coloured illustrations throughout, 11pp, original coloured pictorial wrappers, 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Published as a supplement of Shogaku Ichinensei v. 13, no. 3 (小学一年生). Very good copy. This colourful picture book for children in Year 1 is designed to help them learn...
1982. 14 green papercovered board folders containing the course notes and word lists for service personnel and civilians studying Indonesian in the one year intensive course the RAAF School of Languages offered at that time. Lacks week 17 but otherwise complete. Printed typescript single sided. 30 x 20cm. Folders measure...
New York. (circa1856). Black and white lithograph map of Lew Chew Island, also known as Ryukyu Island, from Perry's "Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan compiled by Francis Lister Hawks. The plate was published by Ackerman Lithography in New York. Light even...
61pp, typescript, original wrappers a little browned in places, generally good. 29.8 x 21cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163322).
Canberra. Department of Linguistics. Australian National University. 1985. iv + 725 + 21pp, very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 155327).
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