1905. BALL, J. Dyer. HOW TO WRITE CHINESE. Containing General Rules for Writing Chinese, and Particular Directions for Writing the Radicals. Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama, Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1905. Second edition. Four folding plates. Octavo. [6],25,[1],76,xiii,[1],xix pp., + vii adv. pp. Publisher's cloth-backed dun paper boards with title..... More
1905. BARBOUTAU, Pierre. BIOGRAPHIES DES ARTISTES JAPONAIS DONT LES OEUVRES FIGURENT DANS LA COLLECTION PIERRE BARBOUTAU, 2 volumes. Amsterdam: R. W. P. de Vries, 1905. Limited edition, no. 19 of 1000 copies. Volume I: Peintures; Volume II: Estampes et Objets d'Art. Folio, quarter green cloth with green and beige floral..... More
1904. BARBOUTAU, Pierre. BIOGRAPHIES DES ARTISTES JAPONAIS DONT LES OEUVRES FIGURENT DANS LA COLLECTION PIERRE BARBOUTAU, TOME II< ESTAMPES ET OBJETS D'ART. Paris: S. Bing/L'Auteur, 1904. Folio, green and brown printed wrappers, flaps detached, wrappers chipped, spine covered with cloth and plastic tape which is partially removed. Text disbound, some pages slightly chipped at edges, not affecting text. 88 + [6] pp. B/w plates..... More
1870s. [BASEBALL - JAPAN] Shihon Gakkou-hen. SHÔGAKU TOKUHON Maki no Ichi. Aichi-ken [Nagoya] Shihongakkô [Teacher's College] n.d. [1870's] An interesting little elementary school reader from the first series of textbooks designed and created by the Teachers College Normal School system in Japan after the Meiji restoration to introduce "Western Learning"..... More
1968. BASHAM, A. L., ed. PAPERS ON THE DATE OF KANISKA SUBMITTED TO THE CONFERENCE ON THE DATE OF KANISKA, LONDON, 20-22 APRIL, 1960. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968. xiv + 478 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt. Minor rubbing to front board, else a fine copy. Text in..... More
1964. BASHAM, A. L. STUDIES IN INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE. Calcutta: Sambodhi Publications Private Ltd., 1964. 248 pp. 8vo., caramel colored cloth with paper spine label. Cloth boards are rippled, endpapers slightly so, interior fine. Dust jacket is price-clipped with a closed 3 inch tear on front panel, crease and..... More
1982. (BAUR COLLECTION). JAPANESE CERAMICS. By John Ayers. Geneve: Collections Baur, (1982). This is 1/50 numbered copies bound in leather. 4to., full brown leather, spine in gilt; with 133 items catalogued and photographed, many in color. This copy is in mint condition, in the dust jacket... More
1951. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library (No. 23), 1951. One of 150 copies. 51 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine in a slightly chipped glassine dustjacket. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. More
1951. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library (No. 23), 1951. One of 150 copies. 51 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine in a slightly torn glassine dustjacket. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. More
1951. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library (No. 23), 1951. One of 150 copies. 51 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine in a slightly torn glassine dustjacket. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. More
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