Kobe. Takagi Photo Co., (Circa 1919). 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 case..... More

[Egypt?]. [circa 1870s]. Two large format albumen print photographs, 19.5 x 26.3 cm and 20.7 x 26.5 cm, mounted on an album leaf, gilt edges, (one corner bumped and light toning) 26 x 34.2 cm, pale tone, but in very good condition. The upper corner of the architectural print has..... More

Shanghai. Commercial Press Limited. 1924. 12 issues bound in one volume. Numerous black & white images throughout. Fully rebound in Japanese silk covered boards, new head and tail bands and endpapers. Leather title label lettered in gilt. iv + 1048pp. The text block pages are browned, some pages have been..... More

[London]. [ 1633]. Original black and white botanical engravings on a folio leaf, laid paper 34.6 x 23 cm, with explanatory text, edges age-toned, but in very good condition. Handsome engravings of Gromell or Gromwell plants (borage), with text noting its medicinal use "especially [to] breaketh the stone in the..... More

Thos Cook & Son NY 1914. Black and white photographic illustrations, 119pp. Staples rusted but still firm. Original pictorial wrappers chipped particularly along edges, now carefully re-inforced with acid-free tape, some insect damage causing abrading to the wrappers in a number of places. Upper section of paper on spine torn..... More

[Late 19th Century]. Four albumen prints: two 14 x 10 cm mounted cabinet cards, (one from the studio of R. Schutz, Java, with their blue stamp and logo on the verso), each with scalloped gilt edges; one 16.3 x 10.4 cm and one smaller 7.5 x 10 cm both mounted..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 警眼社. [Keigansha]. Taisho 7 [ 1918]. Full page colour plate, black and white photographic illustrations, one attractive folding photographic panorama of Venice, 225pp, 22.5 x 30.5 cm, attractive covers with tassle ties. Front free endpaper creased, browning on text leaves but not photographic illustrations throughout, A beautiful volume..... More

London. Cassell & Co., No date. (Circa 1890). Fifth edition. Numerous black and white engraved illustrations. 176pp + 8pp publisher's adverts. Pictorial blue cloth, cloth worn along lower joint, head and tail spine rubbed and slightly frayed, inner hinges split with some loss and insect damage to the hinge, endpapers..... More

[London]. Hullmandel and Walton, [ 1863]. Hand coloured lithograph heightened with gum arabic, 28.6 x 42.8cm (plate size), 32.6 x 43.3cm (with trimmed margins), toning at the plate mark and to the verso of the plate, paper repair affecting the upper left corner of the plate. A good example. Plate..... More

[London]. Walter, [ 1873]. Fine hand coloured lithograph heightened with gum arabic, 38.6 x 55.8cm discolouration to the top edge, the face of the plate clean and unmarked, small stitch holes to the lower margin. A very good example. Fine plate (no. 51) from the fourth volume of John Gould's..... More

[London]. Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, [1841- 1842]. Fine hand coloured lithograph heightened with gum arabic, 52.2 x 35.5cm (plate size), 55.5 x 37.8cm (sheet size), toning at the plate mark and to the margins, verso of the plate browned, but the face of the plate clean and unmarked, small stitch holes..... More

New York. C. D. Fredricks & Co., [circa 1870]. Albumen silver carte de visite 9.6 x 5.8 cm, mount with single rule,10.3 x 6.4 cm, in very good condition. Emile Gsell learned photography in the military and probably arrived in Saigon with the French Expeditionary force. His studio in Saigon..... More

(Vietnam). [circa 1870]. Albumen silver carte de visite 9.4 x 5.6 cm, mount 10 x 6.4 cm, ink inscription on the verso in an early hand "Ambonese water carrier". Emile Gsell learned photography in the military and probably arrived in Saigon with the French Expeditionary force. His studio in Saigon..... More