[Japan]. No details of publisher. Circa1908to 1935. 40 beautiful postcards most very colourful and many embossed, some with silver or gold highlighting. 39 cards measure 9 x 14cm, a folding letter card 28 x 9cm. Occasional minor wear but overall very good. Four cards have been used and have messages..... More

Asahi Shimbun.? Showa 7 [1932]. Monotone photographic illustrations throughout, some full page but many two or more images attractively arranged on the page, 64pp, striking colour illustrated upper cover showing two attractive Japanese women dressed in elegant early 1930s Western clothes sightseeing with Mt Fuji in the background. 19 x...... More

Tokyo. Department of Communications, Tokio.遞信省通信局. 1913-1914. Two bilingual early 20th century postal agreements between the Imperial Postal Administration of Japan and the United States, Japan and Dominion of Canada. 20 + 11pp. Wrappers a little browned and discoloured in places, a little wear with loss on paper spine. Very good..... More

Tokyo. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. 明治四十三1910. Bilingual (French and Japanese) early 20th century postal regulations as agreed between the Minister of State for Communications of Empire of Japan, S. Gotō, and the Communication Minister of the United Mexican States, Leandro Fernandez. 26 + 14pp, an errata tipped in upper pastedown, in wrappers..... More

Portland. Maine. L. H. Nelson & Co., (circa1914). Souvenir booklet published for Japanese visitors to the United States in the first part of the twentieth century. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographic images - a strikingly double page centrefold showing New York's Woolworth building and 18 full page images..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 長谷川周吉. [Hasegawa Shūkichi]. 明治20 [1887]. Colour woodblock sheet, 37.5 x 24.5cm. Light diagonal crease across lower corner. Foxing visible at edges in particular, red paint smudge lower corner. Good copy. This colourful woodblock "Omocha-e" (toy pictures or play pictures) was published in 1887 and depicts four detailed scenes..... More

(circa1905). Attractive Japanese album 26.6 x 36cm containing 6 colour large (20 x 25cm) hand coloured albumen photographs, 4 large (20 x 25cm) black and white albumen photographs and 5 small black and white photographs, an attractive black and white postcard showing Mt Fuji with a dragon flying across the..... More

実業之日本社. [Jitsugyō no Nihonsha]. 明治 44 [1911]. Colour folding sugoroku, 54.5 x 76cm, original player's pieces, so often missing from sugoroku, appear on left edge, very good copy. This colourful sugoroku game sheet was issued as the 1911 new year supplement of the Japanese magazine, Fujin Sekai (Women's World) founded..... More

男體社. Showa 3 [1928]. Handsome coloured bird's-eye folding map size, map measures 18 x 79cm; folds into 19 x 11cm colourful card folder. Sightseeing information and photographic illustrations are printed on the reverse in blue ink. A little minor wear at edges otherwise very good. This delightful folding map is..... More

Tokyo. Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha 大日本雄辯會講談社. Shōwa 7 (1932). Colour sugoroku or Japanese game, 5 closed tears (each 2 x 3cm) near from folds, some other light signs of use and occasional light spotting. 61.5 x 92.5cm. This colourful sugoroku game features a race around the world. On the reverse there..... More

Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha]*. 大阪毎日新聞社. Meiji 44 [1911]. Beautifully coloured illustrations many heightened with silver and all captioned in Japanese. 76.5 cm x 107.3 cm. Folded. Some small holes at folds, few closed tears, a little careless folding in places, some light creasing and soiling on reverse. Published as a supplement..... More

大阪.[Osaka]. 瀬原捨松.[Sutematsu Sehara]. 明治三十七[1904]. Colour folding Japanese woodblock map published at the time of the Russo-Japanese war showing Japan, Korea, China and the Soviet Union, two inset maps and a comparison chart comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese and Russian forces, scale not given. Notes in calligraphy upper..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 教育写真通信会. [Kyōiku Shashin Tsūshinkai]. 大正12 [1923]. Folding plan printed in red and blue, 47 full page black and white photographic illustrations, 48pp, first and last leaves browned, occasional soiling, some light browning folding plan, cloth boards with cord ties, edges worn with a little loss, good copy. Commemorative..... More