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

Yokohama. Eighth U.S. Army Printing Plant. 1946. Colour and black and white full page plates, 36 pages on double leaves, bound in oblong Japanese paper covered boards with ties, 28 x 39 cm. Upper cover lifting, a little minor insect damage paper covered boards, light soiling title page, mild crease..... More

上海.[Shanghai]. 三益社.[Mimasusha]. 昭和十三[1938]. Coloured folding map China as far north as Hebei Province, south to Hong Kong, west to Sichuan and Guizhou Provinces, and corresponding coastal regions. Some folding black and white plates including one of the Bund looking north. 4 full page colour plates, black and white photographic plates..... More

95 full page colour plates showing rice straw rugs. Each image has a printed number below it which appears to be the stock number of the rug, several printed numbers have a second label with a new number laid down on to it. A few leaves are stamped H. Yamamoto..... More