No date. Late Edo. Complete set of 200 delicately coloured handpainted cards flecked with gold and silver. Each card 8 × 5.4 cm. Two patterned silk cases, one for the text and the other the portraits of the poets with washi paper linings are held within a black wooden lacquer..... More

San Francisco. Paul Elder and Company. ( 1912). Black and white full page plates, vii+ 84pp.., Original papered boards, slightly rubbed at the corners, paper is age-toned as usual, bibliography, appendix. Printed at the Tomoye Press in the year of the Rat, Meiji 45. 20 x 14cm. Prior owner bookplate..... More

Paris. George Petit. Les Lundi 16 et Mardi 17 Avril 1922. Black & white photographic illustrations, 86pp, original card covers, a little tender on the spine but holding firm, a very good clean copy. Catalogue of an important sale of Japanese sword guards held in Paris When referring to this..... More

Tokyo. 東陽堂. [Tōyōdō]. Meiji 26, 33 [ 1893, 1900]. 4 issues bound together in half cloth binding with marbled paper covered boards. Issue 54 (1893): 5 + 28 +28pp; Issue 213 (1900) : 58 +10pp; Issue 215 (1900): 53 +10pp; Issue 217 (1900): 70 + 6pp. Maps, colour plates, some..... More

[Nikko]. 別格官幣社東照宮社務所. [Bekkaku Kanpeisha Toshogu Shamusho]. 昭和2 [ 1927]. Colour plan, 30 full page black and white photographic images, each with a tissue guard showing a variety of locations within the Toshogu Shrine at Nikko. Oblong pictorial covers with cord ties, minor wear covers, a few tissue guards a little..... More

Liverpool: Printed for Private Circulation. 1895. Small chromolithograph laid down on one sheet, 3 black and white photographic plates, many black and white illustrations throughout, xii + 90pp. Paper covered boards, cloth spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Inscribed "University Club/With the Writer's Compliments" front free endpaper, bookplate of..... More

Yokohama. Kelly & Walsh. 1898. Third Edition. ix + 570pp + 2 pages adverts, index. Original brown cloth covered boards, corners front & rear tender and stained, front free endpaper browned and inner hinges re-enforced, first and last pages foxed and browned, and rear corners marked, still a sound copy..... More

Asahi Shinbun-sha 朝日新聞社. 20 issues, original pictorial wrappers (one lacks upper wrapper). A little minor wear but overall very good. 36.5 x 26cm). Four issues from 1926 (October 27th, November 17th, 24th, December 15th); three from 1927 (January 12, April 27th, June 8th), one from 1929 (January 1st) lacks lower..... More

[Tokyo]. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. (circa 大正十 1921). 87pp, occasional foxing and soiling on covers, otherwise very good in wrappers. Text in Japanese. 22.4 x 15. Early 20th century Japanese postage rates for foreign parcels. Published as Notice number 2431 issued by the 遞信省 "Ministry of Communications" in December 大正十年 (1921) to..... More

Paris. Colmet Daage. 1912. Illustrated with 46 photographic reproductions in the text, list of netsuke signatures at the rear. Original wrappers, spine has been re-enforced, some corners bent, some chips to edges, still a very good copy. 27.5 x 19cm. An auction held in June 1912 with 721 lots, including..... More

Tokyo. Japan Advertiser. 1928. Special edition of the Japanese Advertiser 1928. With the striking original woodblock colour print of Himeji Castle, by Hiroshi Yoshida tipped in and with numerous black and white full page and text images. xvi + 179pp. Japanese traditional style binding with multi-coloured ribbon ties, attractive pictorial..... More

京都. [Kyoto]. 芸艸堂. [Unsodo]. No date. [Meiji 28, 1895]. 12 colour woodblock prints attractively presented in Japanese accordion style binding, attractive colour image upper cover, lower cover gives the table of contents and advertising other art albums from the same publisher. Paper covered boards, endpapers browned with a little light..... More

Imperial Japanese Government Railways. Tokyo. 1914. Folding maps, illustrations, including colour plate frontispiece, cciv + 370pp, index, cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine and lightly at other extremities, top edge gilt, map endpapers browned, rear map endpaper has two closed tears, prior owner name on the title page..... More