Shanghai. 尚美堂本店. [Shōbidō Honten]. Shōwa 12 [ 1937]. Colour map, colour art illustration plate, black and white photographic illustrations on 48 pages, captions in Japanese and English, 19 x 26cm, cord tie, paper over upper joint torn but joint still holding firm, original pictorial card slipcase. Very good. This book..... More

(Circa 1900). Twelve very bright colour gouache paintings on pith paper showing a series of Qing dynasty figures arranged by rank, blue paper border, red silk covered album with contrasting green ties. Images approximately 17.5 x 12cm. Album 22.5 x 15.5cm. All twelve paintings in very good condition. This finely..... More

Melbourne. Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer. 1888. Parliamentary Paper, xvi + 101pp, missing the original title wrappers, a little age -toned but a very good crisp copy, preserved in recent blue-card wrappers. Parliamentary Paper compiling correspondence and proceeding of public meetings relating to the restriction of Chinese immigration, culminating in..... More

No date. (Circa 1840). A striking, detailed gouache painting on pith of a Chinese junk. 20.2 x 29.6cm including blue ribbon borders. Some minor chips at lower and left edge but these are not significant, very light faint foxing, a very attractive image in very good condition. When referring to..... More

London. Dodd, Mead, & Company. n.d. ( 1890). First American Edition. Folding map of South-Western China showing the journeys of Alexander Hosie, black and white photographic frontispiece with tissue-guard and 6 illustrations, xxxiv + 302pp, index, 4 pages of publisher's adverts. Decorated blue cloth covered boards with a design representing..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. Meiji 38 [ 1905]. Two battle plans on one folding sheet and a folding chart, 19 x 13cm, 44pp, magazine supplement with a folding War Map of Liaoyang on one side and black and white photographic illustrations on the reverse (34.5 x 27cm), original wrappers, publication marked "Not..... More

大阪. [Osaka]. 巧人社. [Kōjinsha]. Showa 10 [ 1935]. 18 x 13cm, 169pp, hardback, pictorial endpapers, occasional spotting, title page browned, a very good copy in original pictorial slipcase. This book was published in 1935, three years after Manchukuo was founded. After a short introduction, the book explains numbers, pronouns and..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 日本評論社. [Nihon Hyōronsha]. Showa 9 [ 1934]. Black and white photographic illustrations in text, 19 x 13cm, 232pp, red pencil marking two papers, original wrappers. Browned throughout, wrappers, little discoloured and worn, torn with a little loss at tail of spine. This book was issued as a supplement..... More

Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons. 1859. Two volumes. Volume I: Two folding maps, the large folding map of China coloured in outline (sealed fold tear with tape on the verso), five coloured lithographs ("Japanese Funeral" supplied in facsimile), text wood engravings, xiii + 492pp + 16pp (publisher's adverts)..... More

Hong Kong. 新雅七彩畫片公司. [Xinya qicai huapian gongsi]. 1975. Forty volume graphic novel set of Journey to the West, complete, illustrated in black and white with captions in traditional Chinese characters below. Presented in 4 boxes of 10 volumes each, approximately 44 - 60pp per volume, 20.2 x 12.5cm. Coloured paper..... More