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

London. Griffith and Farran. 1879. Attractive black and white illustrations, seven full page by Japanese artists. Original decorated boards with damage to the edges. 125pp + 16 pages of publisher's adverts, some occasional foxing mainly to prelims, rebound with buckram cloth spine, the originals staples have rusted leaving small stains..... 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

London. Crosby Lockwood. 1905. 2nd Edition revised. Profusely illustrated with examples of Chinese characters, viii + 547pp + [3]pp, appendix, indices, 30.2 x 23.5cm. Occasional spotting and light browning, occasional neat pencilling, neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, ink stain gutter of one page and in three..... More

No Information. 九潜館. [Kyūsenkan]. Keio 4 [ 1868]. Translated by Suzuki Tadakazu. Complete in three volumes. Woodblock printed. Volume I: 53 double folded feaves; Volume II: 41 double folded leaves; Volume III: 47 double folded leaves, 24.5 x 17.6 cm, four hole stab binding. Lacks title labels on upper covers..... More

Tokyo. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. 明治三十九 1906. Bilingual (English and Japanese) early 20th century postal regulations as agreed between the Minister of State for Communications of Empire of Japan, 山縣 伊三郎 [Yamagata Isaburō], and the Postmaster General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Austin Chapman. 18 + 11pp, in wrappers, including 16 articles..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 檜書店. [Hinoki Shoten]. Showa 8 [ 1933]. Profusely illustrated with 60 full page colour plates most heightened in gold or silver, 26 x 19.2 cm, 60pp. First leaf foxed. Pictorial paper covers with string ties, some insect damage to back cover, paper spine a little chipped but nevertheless..... More

Philadelphia. Lippincott. 1857. 29 full page black and white engravings, including Bathing Scene in Japan and an engraved title page, 507pp, title page little creased and soiled, upper hinge starting, occasional light spotting, professionally rebound in modern maroon cloth. The author Lieutenant A.W. Habersham of the US Navy was an..... More

London. Richard Bentley. 1861. First edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and black and white text illustrations, [i]-xxxii + 350pp with a final advertisment leaf of Bentley's Standard Novels, 19.4 x 13cm, original blind-stamped blue cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine (dulled) and gilt vignette of a ship with pennants a flutter to the..... More

今井喜兵衛. [Imai Kichibē]. Meiji 15 [ 1882]. Woodblock Japanese printed booklet containing 3 folded leaves. Text accompanied by small handcoloured illustrations showing the minor criminal offences described above. 7 x 3cm section of loss upper section of colour woodblock upper cover, stain lower cover upper cover and first two leaves..... More

Tokyo. Japan Year Book Office. Sixteenth Annual Publication. ( 1928). Folding colour map, and 2 folding plans and black & white sketch maps in the text, xxxiv (advertisements at front and back) + 698pp plus 200pp supplement includes business directory and index to advertisers, legal, medical, shopping, and gastronomical information..... More

Reading. Privately Printed by Tokio Printing. 1912. Number 260 of 300 copies. 88 full page collotype plates with descriptive tissue guards, xxix + 317pp, errata slip loosely enclosed, 32 x 26cm, original buckram backed boards lettered in black on the upper cover, top edge red, others uncut, paper title label..... More

[Hiroshima]. 海軍兵学校. [Kaigun Heigakkō]. [1924 - 1941]. Three volumes, 21.9 x 15 cm, three folding charts, text diagrams and illustrations, folding world map dated December 1937 bizarrely shows in a semi-circular dotted line of the area where one could travel with same fare, which extends to the mid-Aleutian Islands in..... More