London. Smith, Elder & Co, 1838. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding colour map frontispiece, folding plate "Specimen of the Various modes in which Chinese Characters are written", xvi + 510pp, map and title page foxed. Volume II: 570pp. Original blind stamped cloth covers, backstrips laid down on new spine, front... More
New York. Harper & Brothers, 1847. Folding map of China, 12 black and white engravings, xv + 467pp, bound in original embossed brown cloth, spine gilt. Foxing and browning throughout, a little loss of cloth at head and tail of spine. 20 x 12.9cm. Interesting description of China and its... More
London. Wm H Allen and Co, 1847. 2 folding charts, 4 coloured lithographs, (1 duplicated), folding coloured map 'A Sketch of the Province of Kwang-Tung....', xvi + 250pp, neat stamp of G.D. Musso, an Italian resident of inter-war Shanghai title page, signed J.C. Hall on browned half title. Both folding... More
London. Smith, Elder, 1834. 2 volumes in original blind stamped cloth. Volume I: Large folding general map of China, Chinese Tartary & Tibet, viii + 436pp. Folding map is lightly foxed with a small closed tear running in from the margin, repaired with Japanese tissue. Hinges cracked, small tears with... More
Shanghai. Carl Crow. (1921). Third edition, revised. Five colour folding maps and plans: China; Foreign Settlements Shanghai; Soochow; Peking; Tientsin, full blackand white full page maps, small black and white illustrations encorporating the initial letter of each paragraph, 314 + xpp+ 48 pages of adverts, light browning, light wear binding... More
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. [1865]. 5 full page coloured maps, 188pp, index, upper hinge split, lower cracked, original cloth covered boards titled in gilt upper cover. Leather plain unlettered spine. 16.2 x 10.5cm. First and last leaves foxed and browned, occasional foxing in text, binding a little marked... More
London. MA Nattali, 1849. [Reprint]. 2 volumes in 1. Volume I: 18 full page black and white full page wood engravings, 9 in text. iv + 395pp, school prize inscription dated 22nd December, 1857 one blank. Volume II: 10 full page wood engravings and many in text, iii + 459pp... More
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1887. Second Edition, Revised. Colour folding map, 7 full page black and white plates, decorations and illustrations in text, viii + 433pp, 7 leaves a little creased in one place. Very good in striking pictorial cloth covers, lettered in gilt on the spine. This... More
Glasgow. Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1933. Full page colour plate of flags, maps including two folding, folding panorama of Shanghai, black and white plates, xiv + 392pp, appendix, index. Corners bumped, cloth little worn at corners and head ad tail of spine, a little foxing mainly first and last leaves... More
上海.[Shanghai]. 民強書局.[ Min qiang shu ju]. 民國十三 (1924). 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Two volume set. Volume I: 23pp. Volume II: 22pp. 100 black and white full page line illustrations of young Chinese ladies from across the social classes depicted in modern dress. Original green light card wrappers, 4 hole stab... More
Tokyo: 朝日新聞社. [Asahi Shinbunsha]. December,1925. [178]pp of black and white photographic images + 22 pages of text in Japanese at rear, some even browning and some foxing throughout, original wrappers a little foxed, spine a trifle chipped and creased but otherwise very good. This special issue was published to honour... More
95 full page colour plates showing rice straw rugs. Each image has a printed number below it which appears to be the stock number of the rug, several printed numbers have a second label with a new number laid down on to it. A few leaves are stamped H. Yamamoto... More
No publication details. (circa1920?). Album of twelve full page hand coloured illustrations on silk laid down on card leaves. Images measure 25.4 x 19.4cm. Silk along upper border of two images a trifle frayed, occasional light marks, some light browning card leaves, minor insect damage silk border of one leaf... More
Yedo. No publisher. The 2nd Year of Kei-ou. [1866]. First edition. Seven colour woodblock folding colour maps, two colour maps showing the hemispheres, mainly black and white maps in text, unpaginated [60]pp. Bound in traditional Japanese four hole stab binding, modern string ties, chops on title page, upper cover and... More
Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects. 1931. Folding map with outline colour, 2 colour and 23 black and white full page plates, xii + 248pp, very occasional browning, very light damp staining in places on cloth but overall a very good copy in pictorial gilt cloth in slightly browned dustjacket... More
大日本雄辯會講談社 [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. Taishō 8 [1919]. Colour folding sugoroku, or Japanese board game. Pin holes at corners, worn along the folds with a number of small holes particularly along central fold, some browning and soiling. Neat tape repairs on reverse. 55 x 78.5cm. Published as a supplement to Shonen... More
Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects. 1934- 1936. 3 volumes which make up the complete floats section of A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan. Volume II Part 1. Floats Sec. 1. The Hisago-bune or Calabash Boat. Revised and enlarged edition. Black and white line illustrations and photographic plates, v.... More
Kuling. Banzai. Taisho 7 [1918]. Reprint. 30 tipped in black and white plates captioned in English. Original wrappers torn in places with a little loss. String ties. 26.5 x 29.5cm. Scarce souvenir album of the resort town of Kuling, known today as 牯岭 Guling, in Lushan City, Jiangxi Province. The... More
Tokyo: 長谷川武次郎 [Hasegawa]. [1894]. Second Edition. 15 double folded crepe paper leaves, coloured woodblock illustrations throughout, join along folded leaf between upper cover and copyright leaf split. "Ralph Nicholls Oct. '32" neatly written in ink on preface leaf. Pictorial creped wrappers, with two thread ties of which one has been... More
Chicago. Kalifornians. (c.1949). Profusely illustrated with captioned black and white photographic illustrations showing Japanese Americans at work and play,192pp, original pictorial card wrappers worn and marked, small area of damage at staples first and last leaves, last leaf foxed. A few names in the list of residents have been ringed..... More
旅順.[Lüshun]. 東京堂.[Tōkyōdo]. 昭和十八 (1943). Attractively produced small pictorial album praising Japan's military success in China's Liaodong Peninsula, 32 photographic plates titled and captioned, 32pp in wrappers, covers little worn mainly on corners, hinge detached, a very clean copy in good condition. Text in Japanese. 12.6 x 18.2cm. The album features... More
No date. (circa1850s). Black and white woodblock portrait, 31.7 x 24cm. Some worming, two small brown spots otherwise good. This kawaraban, dating probably from the 1850s, depicts a figure who resembles other portraits of members of Perry's mission to Japan. The term used to describe his position is the Japanese... More
1854. Watercolour portrait on washi, 38 x 27cm. Some creasing, some holes. A striking image. This striking colour portrait from Perry's second mission to Japan depicts Captain Henry A. Adams, as seen by a Japanese artist, during Perry's second visit to Japan in 1854. It was at this time that... More
(8th of March1854?). Manuscript ink sketch map, 28.5 x 38cm. Few small holes, paper thin in places, a little creased. This sketch map shows Perry's fleet entering Edo bay likely on the 8th of March, 1854 given that seven vessels are shown. The bay is roughly outlined, showing Perry's fleet... More
Tokyo. 私刊豆本. Showa 17 [1942]. Limited edition of 300 signed copies. 15 folded leaves delightfully illustrated with colour lithographs showing Japanese clocks and other time pieces by well-known artist and author Takeo Takei. Japanese four hole stab string binding, pictorial covers. A little very light wear. Very good. Influential Japanese... More
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