[Japan]. No date. Late Meiji. Period. Volume II only. Black and white illustrations, one folding, 13 x 8.8cm, 144 double-folded leaves, four-hole string binding. A little browning inside upper cover and first leaf, title label missing from upper cover otherwise a sound clean copy. This Japanese military textbook on handling..... More

(London). (Circa 1870). Three original albumen print photographs, all approx 15 x 21 cm, mounted on album card, two with the original labels of the Palestine Exploration Fund and reference numbers (No. 261 Ashkelon:-Grove of Trees & No. 273. Rafat), the mounts creased and ragged with edge tears and loss..... More

[Japan]. Circa [ 1930?]. Folding coloured board game (12.6 x 12.9cm), small tube with a metal lid containing a dice and 4 playing pieces each in 4 colours, original box (15 x 7.5 x 2.6cm), rules of the game in Japanese text laid down inside lid. Signs of light use..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 横山豊. [Yokoyama, Yutaka]. Showa 11 [ 1936]. Colour folding colour sugoroku, 54 x 80cm. Insect damage lower right square and on margins now repaired with washi the reverse, otherwise good. A colourful sugoroku game dating from 1936, this sheet also served as an advertising campaign for the shops..... More

[Japan]. Showa 31 [ 1956]. Melbourne 1956 Olympics scrapbook, 26 x 36.3cm, [38]pp, 4 hole string binding, hand-written title on front cover. Some largely even browning throughout, endpapers a little marked but overall very good. This Japanese scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings from Japanese sources provides a detailed and engaging..... More

(Washington). Smithsonian Institution, 1903. Disbound report (from the Annual Report for the Smithsonian Institution): pp 775-792, folding map (showing the tracks of Neumann's journey) and 10 half-page black and white photographic plates, 22.5 x 14.7 cm, final leaf and the foliding map loose, age-toning but otherwise in very good condition..... More

[Australia]. (Circa 1954). An album of 128 black and white photographs and 12 colour postcards, detailing a trip to Ceylon in 1954, cord tie. 25 x 33cm. Few postcards loose, leaves trifle friable, cloth-covered boards little shelf worn, overall in good condition. Although the album begins with aerial shots of..... More

Johnson and Ward. (Circa 1863). Hand coloured map, 32.6 x 39.7 cms (including the decorative border); 36.8 x 45.8 cms (sheet), two inset maps, "Yesso and the Japanese Kuriles" and "Bay of Nagasaki", unrelated printed text on the verso, sheet very slightly age toned, scant marginal spotting, in very good..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 国学院. [Kokugakuin]. Meiji 32 [ 1899]. Colour woodblock print on a sheet measuring 31.3 X 51.4cm, folded as issued. Tiny hole (pinhole) at one fold intersection, light toning to verso of two panels (outer side when folded), overall very good condition. An attractive woodblock print depicting a gosho..... More

大阪. [Osaka]. 日本煙草雑誌社. [Nippon Tabako Zasshisha]. 1903. Issue of Nippon Tobacco Journal, black and white illustrations mainly in advertisments at rear, upper cover features a colour inset, 29pp. 28.2 x 21.3cm. Accompanying the journal are two ceramic ashtrays, measuring 14 x 12cm. Journal has a central fold, upper cover has..... More

[Japan]. Showa 13 [ 1938]. Sketch book, black and white original ink drawings with captions, ink writing, accordion style binding, 24 x 680cm, hand written title labels upper and lower covers. Silk at corners of covers worn with minor loss, occasional light foxing. A fascinating and poignant album. This evocative..... More

Philadelphia. H. S. Tanner, circa 1836. Map with original handcolour, 28.5 x 35.6 cms; 34.5 x 45.4 cms (sheet including plate mark), inset map, "Western Part of Russia", some age toning to the margins, but in very good, bright condition. An attractive hand-coloured map showing the mass of Russia east..... More

Washington. United States Strategic Bombing Survey. 30 June 1946. Two folding colour maps at rear, profuse black and white photographic illustrations, v + 46pp. 26 x 20cm. Extremities and original blue stapled wrappers trifle shelf worn with a few leaves little chipped at edges, though still overall in very good..... More