![温古セン彙. [Onko Sen'i]. [A Collection of Japanese Traditional Dyed Fabrics]. ATSUO...](/images/noimage.png)
東京, [Tokyo]. 日本古典全集刊行会. [Nihon Koten Zenshu Kankokai]. 昭和12 [ 1937]. 92 colour plates tipped in, 90 + 42 + 5pp, 17.5 x 12.5cm, attractive gilt spine, appears to lack the facsimile title label, otherwise all tipped in images are present, a good hardback copy with embossed cloth covers. 17.3 x...... More
London. Murray. 1841. First edition. Folding black and white frontispiece map showing the Gulf of Pechelee (supplied in facsimile), folding black and white lithographed plate of Chusan Harbour, xiii + 155pp + 4pp [advertisements], original gilt decorated cloth, gilt title and blind-stamped triple rule, charming gilt vignette of a courting..... More
Hong Kong. Ye Olde Printerie. 1931. 2nd Edition, revised and enlarged. Folding frontispiece map of "Hong Kong and the New Territory ", hand-coloured in outline, main roads, Kowloon Canton Railway and the British border picked out in red, 196pp + [vi] Index, Appendix, original half green papered boards, paper spine..... More
London. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. 1920. Photographic frontispiece and 13 full-page photographic plates, [i]-xv + 309pp, Pitman's Catalogue of General Literature (18pp) bound at end + [i] advertisement leaf, index, free endpapers browned, previous owner's inked signature to the title page, original green cloth, blind-stamped title to upper board..... More
丙申年. Meiji 29 [ 1896]. Beautifully illustrated late 19th century Japanese watercolour painting album, concertina style, [15 card leaves]. 12 paintings included in the album, some in ink black and white, others watercolour, each with artist's inscription in calligraphy style with chops, worming first and last card leaves and in..... More
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1929. [i]-xx + 444pp, index, original publisher's cloth with the gilt coat of arms of the East India Company to the front board, spine gilt lettered, 23.2 x 16.2cm, endpapers spotted, a few leaves browned, foredges dusty and slightly spotted, two Cardiff Public Libraries' inked stamps neatly..... More
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1925. [i]-xxix + 466pp,addendum, index, original publisher's cloth with the gilt coat of arms of the East India Company to the front board, spine gilt lettered, 23.2 x 16.2cm, endpapers spotted, two Cardiff Public Libraries' inked stamps neatly placed, top edge of the boards waterstained and a...... More
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1909. [i]-xxix + 407pp, index, original publisher's cloth with the gilt coat of arms of the East India Company to the front board, spine gilt lettered, 23.2 x 16.2cm, top edge gilt, othes uncut, endpapers spotted, two Cardiff Public Libraries' inked stamps neatly placed. Cloth a trifle..... More
London. HMSO. 1932- 1939. Eight Annual Government Reports each with a large folding general reference map of 'Hong Kong and New Territories' approx 33.7 x 39.4cm, features outlined in colour, numerous tables, 39pp, 42pp, 44pp, 49pp, 53pp, 53pp, 55pp, 186pp, Appendices, tan library cloth binding with gilt spine title, the..... More
Royal Geographical Society. [ 1912]. Foldout map 42 x 23.7cm showing the 'Route from Kashgar to Kowlun' followed by Cecil Clementi, 1907-8, table, advertisements (first two unrelated leaves pasted together), further titles list pasted to final leaf, 4pp, new stiff wrappers, 24.7 x 16cm. Before his tenure as Governor of..... More
