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

Kyoto: 1892. With delicate colour woodblocks by Tanaka Ikka　田中一華, Ichimi Renjō　一見連城, Hasegawa Gyokujun　長谷川玉純, Mori Yūzan　森雄山, Kamisaka Sekka　神坂雪佳, Tanaka Gekkō　田中月耕, Uemura Shōen　上村松園, Nakai Baien　中井梅園, Itō Suezō　伊藤季造, Umemura Keizan　梅村景山, Tabata　Kakuzō　田畑鶴造　and Kunii ōyō　國井應陽. [28pp], folded leaves. Original patterned paper wrappers with red ties, lower section of spine creased, lower corner of 9 leaves..... More

京都. [Kyoto]. 日本仏教真美協会 [Nippon Bukkyo Shimbi Kyokwai]. 明治 32 [ 1899-1908]. The complete set of 20 volumes with over 700 plates (some in fine colour), handsome stab sewn decorative wrappers with burgundy tassle ties presented in the original Japanese linen covered cases, gold flecked inside covers, toggle ties, top 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