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

[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

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

[Tokyo]. 尚古堂. [Shōkodō]. Meiji 2 [ 1869]. 2 volumes complete. Volume 1: 4 + 2 + 33 double folded leaves; Volume 2: 35 double folded leaves. Black and white woodblock illustrations, 2 folding woodblock illustrations, 22.5 x 16 cm. Occasional worming, Japanese style 4 hole stab binding, covers a little..... 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

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