Tokyo: Japan Year Book Office. Sixteenth Annual Publication. ( 1921). Folding colour map, xxlviii (advertisements at front and back) + [2] + 4 + 2 + [2] + 812pp, appendix, index, endpapers and leaves opposite the map browned but otherwise a very good copy in original cloth gilt. 18.5 x...... More

博文館. [Hakubunkan]. Taisho 1 [ 1912]. Full page colour plate, black and white photographic illustrations, text illustrations black and white and coloured, 157pp, 28 x 20.6 cm. Original colour pictorial wrappers, staples rusted but still holding, spine chipped with loss. Volume 5, no. 15. publiushed in 15 November Taisho 1..... 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

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

1st Edition. Frontispiece photogravure engraving by Heliog Duchardin with tissue guard, ix + 298pp with numerous illustrations and plates with numbered tissue-guards. Heavy card embossed covers, titled in gilt, spine re-enforced with buckram, endpapers browned, internally clean and firm. Contains an index of artists and a glossary of buddhist terms..... More

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press. Showa 15. [ 1940]. 2nd Edition. 4 colour plates, 2 folding, numerous black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 141pp. Attractive purple cloth covered boards, contrasting red cloth title label upper cover, Japanese binding with tassle ties, cloth worn with loss at corners and edges. Good copy..... More

Yedo. No publisher. The 2nd Year of Kei-ou. [ 1866]. First edition. Seven colour woodblock folding colour maps, two colour maps showing the hemispheres, mainly black and white maps in text, unpaginated [60]pp. Bound in traditional Japanese four hole stab binding, modern string ties, chops on title page, upper cover..... 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

Tokyo. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. 明治37 ( 1904). Bilingual (English and Japanese) early 20th century postal regulations as agreed between the Envoy Extraordinary Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, 高平小五郎 [Takahira Kogorō], and the Postmaster General of the United States of America, Henry C. Payne . 9 + 5pp..... 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

名古屋. [Nagoya]. 文光堂. [Bunkōdō]. 明治 24 [ 1891]. Complete in 5 volumes. Black and white line woodblock illustrations. Volume 1: 24 double leaves. Volume 2: 21 double leaves. Volume 3: 21 double leaves. Volume 4: 28 double leaves. Volume 5: 26 double leaves. Bound in Japanese 4 hole stab bindings..... More

札幌. [Sapporo]. 北海道庁拓殖部. [Hokkaidōchō Takushokubu]. Showa 6 [ 1931]. Black and white photographic illustrations, 24 plates each with a captioned tissue guard, 19.5 x 27.5 cm, a prior owner's stamp on covers, lightly soiled cloth covered boards with cord ties. Very good copy. This early 1930s black and white photographic..... 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