Yedo. No publisher. The 2nd Year of Kei-ou. [ 1866]. First edition. Seven colour woodblock folding colour maps, two colour maps showing the hemispheres, mainly black and white maps in text, unpaginated [60]pp. Bound in traditional Japanese four hole stab binding, modern string ties, chops on title page, upper cover..... More
![Stock ID #177181 訓蒙窮理図解. [Kinmo Kyūri zukai]. [Illustrated Elementary Textbook...](/pictures/thumb/177181.jpg?v=1679074316)
東京. [Tokyo]. [慶応義塾大学出版会. [Keiō Gijuku Daigaku Shuppankai]. Meiji 1 [ 1868]. Black and white woodblock images in text, three volumes bound in one, hole stab Japanese style string binding, resewn, 63 double folded leaves, section of the original paper wrapper loosely inserted. Covers marked, paper title label worn with loss..... More
[Hiroshima]. 海軍兵学校. [Kaigun Heigakkō]. [1924 - 1941]. Three volumes, 21.9 x 15 cm, three folding charts, text diagrams and illustrations, folding world map dated December 1937 bizarrely shows in a semi-circular dotted line of the area where one could travel with same fare, which extends to the mid-Aleutian Islands in..... More
![Stock ID #171621 女子国民教育学. [Joshi kokumin kyōikugaku]. [Civic Education for...](/pictures/thumb/171621.jpg?v=1674971178)
東京. [Tokyo]. 中等学校教科書株式会社. [Chūto Gakkō Kyōkasho Kabushiki Kaisha]. Showa 16 [ 1941]. 4 full page colour plates, black and white photographic illustrations,173pp, cloth covered limp covers, 21 x 15cm. A little light pencilling, light even browning, covers a little worn at edges, modern string ties, a few gatherings protruding a...... More
![Stock ID #164495 世界歴史譚. [Sekai rekishidan]. SEVERAL AUTHORS](/pictures/thumb/164495.jpg?v=1673332244)
[Hakubunkan]. 博文館, 1902. 6 volumes from a series of 35 each standing on its own. Black and white illustrations, pagination various with all well over 100 pages in length. Original coloured pictorial wrappers chipped with a little loss on spines, some staining around staples, good copies. A series of biographies..... More
![Stock ID #177420 高等小学地理書 巻三. [Koto Shogaku Chiri-sho Kan-3]. Geography...](/pictures/thumb/177420.jpg?v=1667220387)
大阪. [Osaka]. 森本専助. [Morimoto Sensuke]. Meiji 29 [ 1896]. Volume 3 only. 6 colour woodblock folding maps, in text black and white woodblock illustrations throughout, 22.5 x 15 cm, 73 double folded leaves, yellow embossed paper wrappers with stab binding (Japanese style).Wrappers slightly soiled but firmly bound This fascinating Japanese..... More
東京. [Tokyo]. 照井宇一. [Terui Uichi]. Meiji 28 [ 1896]. 17 double folded leaves, 26 x 18 cm, traditional 4 hole stab binding, title label on cover. Covers slightly faded and soiled, still a very good copy. This primary school teaching manual of calligraphy covers katakana and hiragana. It starts with..... More
![Stock ID #177374 女礼式. [Joreishiki]. [Illustrations for Teaching of Women's Etiquette]....](/pictures/thumb/177374.jpg?v=1678346165)
[Japan]. Meiji 24 [ 1891]. Collection of 12 colour lithographs, each sheet 19 x 25cm. Light scattered foxing, some staining to some sheets, insect damage to margins of five sheets (outside image area), diagonal crease to margin of one sheet; good condition overall. These 12 delicately coloured beautiful lithographs show..... More