Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier. Black & white frontispiece with tissue-guard and photographic illustrations, 480pp, index, spine sunned and worn particularly at joints and head and tail, upper cover pictorial gilt, prior owner name on endpapers, still a sound, clean and attractive copy. Chapters on Chinese literature, philosophy, alchemy, religion, ancestor..... More

大阪.[Osaka]. 明善堂. [Meizendō]. 明治15 [ 1882]. Volumes 1 and 2 only, lacks volume 3. Map in text showing Chinese ancient battlefield of Fei River in 383 A.D., black and white illustrations, each volume in original yellow embossed card covers, bound in four hole Japanese stab binding, double leaves in oriental..... More

Osaka. 岡島眞七 [Okajima Shinshichi]. Meiji 19. [ 1886]. Complete 7 volume set, 12 coloured copper engraved double page maps of China. Bound in Japanese 5 hole stab binding. Covers damp damaged with some showing mould staining, string on first volume broken in one place but binding still sound, very occasional..... More

大阪.[Osaka]. 中川勘助.[Nakagawa Kansuke]. 明治13[ 1880]. 5 volumes of 7. Missing volumes two and three, bound in Japanese 5 hole stab binding, double leaves oriental style. Paper title labels laid down upper covers rubbed with loss, soiling and creasing on covers, edges little soiled, occasional worming, still text clean and sound..... More

大阪.[Osaka]. 中川勘助.[Nakagawa Kansuke]. 明治13[ 1880]. 6 volumes of 7. Lacks volume 1, bound in Japanese 5 hole stab binding, double leaves oriental style. Paper title labels laid down upper covers, soiling and creasing on covers, edges little soiled, occasional worming and chops, insect damage upper edge volume one, still text..... More

[Tokyo]. [山中市兵衛?].[Yamanaka Ichibee?]. [ 1878?]. Volumes 2, 3, 5-7 of 7 volumes, a Japanese edition of 18 Chinese histories classics spanning from pre-Qing to Song Dynasty. Originally edited by a Chinese scholar 曽先之 [Zeng Xianzhi] in Yuan Dynasty, it was later annotated by another Chinese scholar 陳殷 [Chen, Yin] in..... More