1951. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1951. 1/150 copies. Offered with SUPPLEMENT A. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1955. 1/100 copies. And, SUPPLEMENT B. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1958. 1/100 copies. And, SUPPLEMENT C. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1963. 1/100..... More
1963. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA, SUPPLEMENT C. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1963. One of 100 copies. 42 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine in a good torn glassine dust jacket. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. Errata slip laid in..... More
1963. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA, SUPPLEMENT C. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1963. One of 100 copies. 42 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. More
1963. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA, SUPPLEMENT C. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1963. One of 100 copies. 42 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. Lacks additional errata slip. More
1924. [BEIT, Sir Otto] JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS & OTHER ENGRAVINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR OTTO BEIT, BART., K.C.M.G. IN LONDON AND AT TEWIN WATER, WELWYN. London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1924. 61 pp. 4to., quarter white cloth stamped in gilt over grey paper covered boards. Moderate soil to..... More
1901. BENAZET, ALEXANDRE. LE THEATRE AU JAPON. SES RAPPORTS AVEC LES CULTES LOCAUX. Paris: Leroux, 1901. 294p. 8 black and white plates as well as numerous other illustrations. Missing front board and spine cover, rear board detatched. Binding is tight. Bears several ownership stamps from Faculte des Letters de Paris..... More
1938. BENESCH, Otto. DIE SPATMEISTER DES JAPANISCHEN HOLZSCHNITTS: SHARAKU HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE. Wien: Otto Lorenz [n.d. ca. 1938]. XXIII + 62 tipped-in illustrations on 58 plates, with 10 illustrations in color. 4to., quarter pale cloth stamped in brown, pale paper covered boards with moderate shelfwear and toning. Text toned at edges..... More
1910. DeBenneville, James S. SAITO MUSASHI-BO BENKEI. (Tales of the Wars of the Gempei). Being the Story of the Lives and Adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the Warrior Monk. Yokohama: Published by the author, 1910. First edition, in two volumes. 8vo, green cloth, stamped in..... More
1901. BERGEN, R. Van. A BOY OF OLD JAPAN. Illustrated with Original Japanese Color Pictures. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1901. 8vo., yellow pictorial cloth; prelims. + 246 pp. + 8 plates. Some soiling at boards, wear to extremes; spots of foxing, weak hinges. Good... More
1933. BERGMAN, Sten. SPORT AND EXPLORATION IN THE FAR EAST; A Naturalist's Experiences in and around the Kurile Islands. London: Methuen & Co., (1933). Translated from the Swedish by Frederic Whyte. Thirty-two illustrations and a map. Bookseller's label to rfep. 8vo., orange cloth. Lean to spine. Cloth is discolored; worming..... More
1966. BEURDELEY, Michel. THE CHINESE COLLECTOR THROUGH THE CENTURIES. From the Han to the 20th Century. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, (1966). 4to., grey cloth; 286pp. with many ills., some in color. Fine, in the dust jacket and torn tissue wrapper. More
1959. BEZACIER, Louis. RELEVES DE MONUMENTS ANCIENS DU NORD VIET-NAM: PUBLICATIONS DE L'ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, COLLECTION DE TEXTES ET DOCUMENTS, VOLUME VI. Paris: Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1959. XVI pp. booklet, folio, paper wrappers printed in black, followed by 85 b/w plates of various sizes, many folding. More
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1837. (BIBLE - JAPAN). YOHANE FUKUIN NO DEN [GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN IN JAPANESE] Shingapôru: Kenka Shoin zôhan, 1837. Translated by the Britsh missionary Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (1803 -1851)between 1835-1836 at Macao, with the assistance of three shipwrecked Japanese sailors who taught him Japanese, one of whom, Yamamoto Otokichi..... More
1963. BIGOT, George. KEIKAN NO TABÔ. Kawasaki, Shinjû-sha. Shôwa 38 [1963] #51. Bound western-style in printed boards. Reproduces in a small volume (10.8 x 7.0 cm) the wonderful humorous lithographs from the Meiji period in his folio sized policeman's diary, entitled LA JOURNEE D'UN POLICEMAN A TOKIO. All 27 prints..... More
1888. (BING, S.). ARTISTIC JAPAN: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of Arts and Industries. Compiled by S. Bing. London: Sampson Low, (1888). Volume One (the first six numbers of the 36 eventually published). With color plates (includes folding plate) and numerous other illustrations. The six original pictorial wrappers are bound in..... More
1888. (BING, S.) ARTISTIC JAPAN: A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. Compiled by S. Bing. London: Sampson Low, (1888)-1891. Folio. Six volumes bound in Five.Three-quarter green cloth over pictorial boards. Stamped and ruled in gilt to spine. All 36 issues of this journal, bound without pictorial covers. With..... More
1941. BINYON, Laurence. IMPRESSIONS OF JAPANESE ART. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1941. 8vo., paper-covered boards; 11pp. Ink ownership. Slight soiling and rubbing at boards, else very good. More
1923. BINYON, Laurence, & J. J. O'Brien SEXTON. JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1923. No. 7 of 100 copies, signed by both authors, on handmade paper. 237 pp., xlvi plates (color and b/w). 4to., full pigskin as issued, spine slightly darkened and with a few scrapes, gilt lettering..... More
1923. BINYON, Laurence and SEXTON, J.J. O'Brien. JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS. London: Ernest Benn, 1923. First edition. 4to., tan cloth, lvi + 238pp. + 16 plates in color + 30 in b&w. Endpapers slightly foxed. A very good copy. More
1916. [BIRD AND FLOWER] Watanabe Seitei. SEITEI KACHÔ. Tokyo, Okura Shoten, Okura Yasugoro, Taisho 5 [1916]. Brown cloth clasped portfolio, 28.2 x 38 cm. A complete collection of the 22 color prints, the preface and table of contents page, 24 sheets in all, with a colophon label on the inside..... More
1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 [1891-2]. 4 vols., each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. Vol.1 [Spring] has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers, of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 [Summer] has 32..... More
1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Haru no bu. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24 [1891]. 1 volume, approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. Vol.1 [Spring] only, it has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers, of which 7 are huge double page prints..... More
1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Natsu no bu. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24 [1891]. 1 vol., approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. This is Vol.2 [Summer] and has 32 plates. These original Tanaka Jihei issues (which preceded the Unsodo versions) have become quite..... More
19. BLACKER, J.F. THE ABC OF JAPANESE ART. with forty-nine half-tone illustrations, printed on art paper, and numerous illustration in the text. London: Stanley Paul & Co, (New and cheap edition 1929) 8vo, blue cloth; 460pp. Ex-library working copy with numbers on spine. More
1922. [CERAMICS] BLACKER, J.F. CHATS ON ORIENTAL CHINA. Illustrated. London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1922). First edition, fifth impression. 8vo., brown cloth; 404pp. Many b&w sketches and photographic plates. Over-opening, shelfwear. A good copy, with Kirkwood stamp. More