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 about 実用建築講座 / Jitsuyou Kenchiku Kouza. Practical Architecture Course

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 about Painting Collection of Mrs S.K. Ling

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 about 書画帖 Album of Paintings and Calligraphic Works

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 about Zashiki Hakkei. A Set of Eight Prints

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 about Preuves des Antiquités de Chine

? (circa1930). 47 samples (54) of fusuma or paper for Japanese sliding doors. Some examples are coloured but unpatterned while others are patterned and mixed with such materials as cut gold and silver leaves, gold dust, and long paper fibres. A number of samples have been cut with loss in... More about 趣味の襖紙　舞鳳鳥之子見本帳 [Shumi no fusuma-gami buhō torinoko mihonchō]...

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 about Japanese 19th Century Textile Sample Book

大日本海洋美術協会. Showa 18. 昭和1943. 35 tipped in colour plates. Some browning throughout as usual but the plates are largely clean. Japanese binding with string ties. Original cloth covered boards a little insect damaged in a few places but mainly very good, paper title label little insect damaged at foot not... More about 大東亜戦争海軍美術. [Daitōasensō kaigun bijutsu]. [Art from the Naval Campaigns of the...

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 about 大工雛形: 卷五[Shinsen Daiku hinagata: kan 5]. [New Collection of Designs for Carpenters

(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 about 中國錦緞圖案.[Zhongguo jin duan tu an]. [Chinese Brocade Fabric Designs

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 about 信越十二景. [Shin'etsu jūnikei]. [Twelve Scenes of the Shin'etsu Region

Kyoto: 1892. With delicate colour woodblocks by Tanaka Ikka　田中一華, Ichimi Renjō　一見連城, Hasegawa Gyokujun　長谷川玉純, Mori Yūzan　森雄山, Kamisaka Sekka　神坂雪佳, Tanaka Gekkō　田中月耕, Uemura Shōen　上村松園, Nakai Baien　中井梅園, Itō Suezō　伊藤季造, Umemura Keizan　梅村景山, Tabata　Kakuzō　田畑鶴造　and Kunii ōyō　國井應陽. [28pp], folded leaves. Original patterned paper wrappers with red ties, lower section of spine creased, lower corner of 9 leaves..... More about 新圖案　巻之五 New Design Volume 5. Shin-zuan maki-no-go

Tokyo: Imperial Government Railways. (circa1910). 50 delicate hand coloured collotype plates on high quality stiff card each captioned in English, presented in Japanese embroidered silk covered boards with tassle ties, All edges gilt., patterned gilt endpapers.The hinges of each image have been professionally repaired with Japanese paper and wheat starch... More about Sights and Scenes in Fair Japan