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

[Japan]. No date. Mid - late 20th century. Seven double page original watercolours showing Kyoto scenes attractively presented in accordion style album with silk covered boards, paper title label on upper cover. All edges gilt. Album in blue cloth covered case with toggle ties. Very good condition. 30cm x 21cm..... 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

No details of publisher in English. Circa [ 1930?]. Full page colour plates throughout, 80pp, cloth covers worn on edges, 26 x 19cm, characters on title page traced onto tissue guard, prior owner's names on front and back endpapers, a little staining along upper edges of leaves, some light soiling..... 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]. 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

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

春秋社. [Shunshusha]. Showa 6 [ 1931]. Hardcover, pale yellow cloth sunned on the spine, decorated with a map of the world in red, and the silhouettes of a fairly menacing battleship and stylised airship in black, 422pp + 2. 18.8cm x 12.5cm. Text in Japanese. An intriguing example of the..... More

Edo. Suharaya Mohei 須原屋茂兵衛, Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎, Katsumura Jiemon 勝村治右衛門 , Kawachiya Naosuke 河内屋直助 etal. (Publishers), 1858. New Edition. 102 leaves with black and white woodblock text and illustrations throughout. Paper on stiff card boards insect damaged with some loss to characters on paper title label. Four hole stab binding..... More

丙申年. Meiji 29 [ 1896]. Beautifully illustrated late 19th century Japanese watercolour painting album, concertina style, [15 card leaves]. 12 paintings included in the album, some in ink black and white, others watercolour, each with artist's inscription in calligraphy style with chops, worming first and last card leaves and in..... More