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

東京. [Tokyo]. 山口屋森江佐七. [Yamaguchiya Morie Sashichi]. Circa [ 1880]. Black and white wood block print and illustrations, 5 volumes complete, 25.6 x 17.8 cm, double folded sheet, Japanese style stubbed binding with 4 holes. Volume I: Table of contents, 18pp; Volume II: 42pp; Volume III: 48pp; Volume IV: 38pp; Volume..... More

[ 1900?]. Sample album of designs most probably for weaving. The album contains 196 numbered paper slits for holding the design samples in place with 68 samples included. Handwritten paper tabs (some damaged with loss) attached to the edges of 17 leaves give the names of customers. Bound in cloth..... 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..... More

京都.[Kyoto]. 有文舘.[Yūbunkan]. 明治四十五 [ 1912]. 16 two-tone black and grey woodblock prints with accompanying Japanese text on opposite leaf, [31]pp unpaginated, four stab hole string binding, paper title label laid down upper cover. Covers worn and stained, extremities worn with loss. Some hold barely affecting the text one leaf and..... More

Unknown. (Showa 12 [ 1937]). Black and white illustrations, 10 + 8 + 11pp. 26.5 x 19 cm. Paper covered boards with cord ties, paper title label upper cover, corners worn with loss, lower endpaper trifle browned otherwise very good. Contains the poems of a number of land service men..... More