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

Edo. 須原屋源助. [Suaraya Gensuke]. and six others. Kaei 1 [ 1848]. Woodblock printed text and black and white illustrations, 52 folded leaves, 22 x 15.5 cm. Later washi covers show an ink hand written title dated 1863 on the upper cover and on the lower the name and address of..... 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

No date. Late Edo period. Japanese manuscript on 49 folded leaves bound in traditional four hole stab binding, patterned blue paper covers, only a small section of paper title label present, light staining lower section of leaves and on covers, some insect damage in text and on covers without significant..... 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

Tenmei 5 [Autumn 1785]. Large ink and water colour manuscript map of Ezo, modern day Hokkaido, showing the northeastern tip of Honshu, Manchuria as a large landmass along the lower border, and the island of Sakhalin. The Russian territory of Kamchatka is also shown. Drawn on a single washi sheet..... More

No place of publication. No details of publisher. Bunsei 11 [ 1828]? Complete in 3 woodblock printed volumes. Volume I: 42 folded leaves ; Volume II: 38 folded leaves; Vol III: 39 folded leaves, 24 x 16.5cm. 4 stab hole bindings, blue limp papered wrappers worn at the edges with..... 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