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

[Japan]. Late Edo or early Meiji? Ink and watercolour illustrations and manuscript text on over 50 double folded leaves in a modern handmade Japanese four hole stab binding book with paper covered card covers , 12 x 17.5cm. A very nice copy in very good condition. This attractive manuscript illustrated..... 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

Keio 4 [ 1868]. Black and white woodblock karawaban printed on two joined sheets, 25 x 67cm, folds, a very good copy. This attractive black and white woodblock print shows the long procession of a Emperor, most likely Emperor Komei, though the Emperor depicted is not named. Emperor Komei (1831-1867)..... More

London. Archibald Constable. 1906. First UK edition. Two volumes, black and white photogravure frontispieces, many full page photographic illustrations, Volume I: viii + 475 pages; Volume II: 554 pages, appendix, index, neat signature of an early owner to the front free endpaper of the first volume, endpapers browned, closed tear..... 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

Ansei 6 [ 1859]. Black and white woodblock karawaban printed on one and a half very fine sheets of washi, 35 x 70cm, a few small holes and some thinning of the paper in the central right section but still a very good copy. This fascinating kawaraban was originally published..... 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

New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1922. First Edition. ix + 432 pages, 19 x 13 cm; red cloth covered boards, fore edge uncut, paper title label to spine with two small chips, faintly sunned on spine, some small areas of flecking, inner gutters splitting but sound. Perkins p. 85..... More