No place of publication. No date. (Circa1910). 50 coloured photographs - each 22.5 x 14.8cm, laid down on dark green 'Arches' type paper bound in padded silk boards, decorated with a pine needle and crane design, silk tassled knots secure the expertly rebacked binding. Original embossed endpapers slightly sunned with..... More

關口三左エ門商店, No date of publication. (circa1930). Sixteen beautiful coloured designs for furosiki with an accompanying pages showing eight different font styles. 25.8 cm x 13 cm folds out to . Original green card boards worn with a little loss and creasing, one illustration torn with a little loss, light vertical..... More

London. Henry Sotheran. 1881. Colour and black and white plates, xii + 304pp, index. Inscription and book plate preliminary leaves, some light occasional soiling. Some closed tears, stitching split in one place, last leaf loose, even browning throughout, occasional stamps of a prior owner in text. Original pictorial gilt red..... More

no date [circa1935]. Colour photographic portrait of the artist, 33 large delightful colour plates showing floral scenes often with butterflies from paintings by Mrs S.K. Ling in the period between 1916 and 1926. Inscribed by the Lings to Professor Sir Stephen Henry Roberts and Mrs Roberts. Sir Stephen was Vice-Chancellor..... More

台北.(Taibei). 國立歷史博物館.[Guo li li shi bo wu guan]. 民國86 (1997). Map,colour plates, black and white illustrations, 192pp, gilted lettering on covers and spine, hardback cloth covers. Text mainly in traditional Chinese with English and Chinese preface. 38.5 x 26.6cm. Private collection of Chen Cheng-Ching's Taiwan aboriginal art objects from 9..... More

Tokyo: Bunka Nippon Sha. 1946. Unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 500. 8 coloured woodblocks in paper mats, presented together with a two page introduction in English in a patterned paper covered portfolio with toggle ties. Folio. A very handsome set of plates which show the daily lives of..... More

Pékin. 1930. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout, [22]+ 676 + [2] + 35 + [3]pp, one gathering transposed but the work is complete. Attractive modern marbled paper covered boards, plain black cloth spine, portion of original upper wrapper laid down on the upper cover. Edges uncut, 41 x...... More

Tokyo. Hasegawa. T., 1885]. Original 18 folded silk crepe paper leaves illustrated throughout with colour woodblocks, traditional silk stitching ties at the spine. Very good copy. Translated from Japanese into English by David Thompson and illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. [18]pp, including wrappers; a very pleasing copy with faint toning but..... More

(circa1900). Interesting collection of twenty-five photographs of Japan. Ten albumen photographs (most 20 x 26cm, four approximately 21 x 27cm) by Ogawa Sashichi and others, most showing scenes around Tokyo and Yokohama measuring laid down on card, four are coloured. Nine of these photographs are captioned either by the studio..... More

Late Edo (?) (circa1865). 8 pages of handwoven swatches. One small rectangular piece (2 swatches) removed, one leaf slightly smaller than the others, covers insect damaged. 13 x 30cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157343). More

江戶.[Edo]. 須原屋茂兵衛.[Suharaya Mohee]. 寶曆十四[1764]. Volume 5 only. Black and white woodblock illustrations, 32 leaves. Traditional Japanese 4 hole stab binding on double leaves, title labels laid down upper cover damaged with considerable loss, original blue wrappers worn and insect damaged, light stain in one place on margins throughout, lower margins..... More

no date [195-]. Colour photographic portrait of the artist, 32 (lacks one plate) delightful colour plates of flowers and butterflies from paintings by Mrs S.K. Ling. Preliminary and last leaves foxed, some very light occasional browning first plates, but generally the plates are very good. Striking green cloth binding lettered..... More

Shanghai. Watson. Kelly & Walsh. 1926. Number 283 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. 50 full page tipped-in plates by Donald Mennie of which 38 are photogravures and 12 are hand coloured silver gelatin plates. Each plate has an accompanying page of text by Lieutenant Commander Carey and is..... More