Tokyo: 東学社. 昭和10/ 1935. Complete 23 parts in 8 volumes. Black and white illustrations, line drawing plans, occasional foxing, browned throughout, inscription pencilled front covers, with worn spines, a very good paperback set with dustjackets in card slipcases. This very comprehensive set looks at both traditional and modern architecture and... More

Kobe. Takagi Photo Co., No date. (circa1919). 50 hand coloured full page collotypes printed on thick paper showing beautiful Japanese sights, scenery and people involved in activities, each plate captioned in English, all edges gilt, padded patterned silk over boards with tassle ties presented in a wrap around cloth covered... 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

Tokyo: Meiji 34 - Shōwa 21. [1901- 1946]. Album containing 23 pages with calligraphy or ink paintings, some double page, some tipped-in or loosely inserted. Although ther are many blank leaves in this album the works included excluding the inserted works, have are of good artistic quality. Accordion album, patterned... More

No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa2005). 51 colour plates, black and white portrait, signature of the painter front free endpaper, as new. Text in Chinese and English. 25 x 26cm. "Flower of Heart - Years, a series of Feng Shaoxie's oil paintings, is done by blending the... 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

No place of publication. No publisher. no date. (Taisho). 10 colour woodblocks bound in accordion style Japanese album. Silk covered boards, pictorial title label upper cover. Small tear at one fold, covers worn at corners, title label insect damaged with a little loss. Very good. This item is an album... More

[1930s?]. Collection of over 280 matchbox labels laid down in an oblong album. Album measures 15 x 21.5cm. Some labels are torn with a little loss to corners and edges and there is some wear to others. An attractive album. The delightful images featured on these labels are largely advertisements... More

Meiji 43 [1910]. Japanese textile sample book containing 37 swatches of fabric of varying sizes from the late Edo-early Meiji period. Each captioned in Japanese. Includes a triangular sample of Korean brocade and one of Chinese silk with handwritten Chinese characters on it. 20 pages (on 10 folded leaves). Some... More

[Jingdezhen]. [Hong Kong]. 景德鎮陶瓷館.香港中文大學文物館.[Jingdezhen tao ci guan].[Xianggang zhong wen da xue wen wu guan]. 2004. Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue jointly held by Jingdezhen Ceramic and Art Museum and The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004. 186 ceramic artworks are described in the catalogue with bilingual Chinese and English descriptions... 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

(Beijing). 人民美術出版社. [Ren min meishu chu ban she]. 1953. A complete set of 24 full page colour plates loosely presented in portfolio with title in Chinese on upper cover. 27 leaves in the publisher's folder, 37 x 26cm, with three leaves of text in Chinese, including brief introduction of Chinese... More

Taisho 12 (1923). 10 colour ink paintings on silk by a skilled, likely professional artist, tipped onto the card leaves of an album, cord ties, paper title label upper cover. Card covers a little insect damaged, 2 x 3cm long sections of worming in the first two paintings, small hole... More