[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

Dalian: 滿洲電信電話株式會社. [Manshū Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha]. Showa 10 [ 1935]. Black and white photographic portrait, 22 x 15.3cm, 30pp, some pencil and ink annotations, a prior owner's name on lower endpaper, some light staining upper wrapper and margins of leaves. This elementary Manchu language textbook accompanied a radio course..... More

(China and England). King's Messengers, S.P.G., circa 1905. Small Chinese figure, 17 x 6 cms, padded silk brocade, paper, hair and watercolour, (the painted face a little scuffed), mounted onto stiff card and backed onto what appears to be the verso of a certificate or exercise book cover (trimmed and..... 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]. 糸山靜一. [Itoyama Seiichi]. 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 Liaoyana on one side and black and white photographic illustrations on the reverse (34.5 x 27cm), original wrappers..... 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

London. Han-Shan Tang at the Pisces Press. 1982. No. 209 of a limited signed edition of 250 copies. 85 pages of text, 72 full page black and white photographic plates, original green cloth with title stamped in gilt and red on the upper board and the spine, a near fine..... 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