1997. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] ÔKURA Shunji, photograph. MUSASHINO. Tokyo, Single Cut Inc., 1997. 4to., interesting b+w images of Tokyo's western suburbs. Japanese text with an English translation laid in. Near mint. More

1997. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] SANAI Masafumi. IKITE IRU. Kyoto, Seigensha, 1997. Large square 4to., illustrated soft covers., "LIVING" is the tile - a series of fragmentary images of urban life, mostly in color. A mixture of the solemn and the silly captured with a penetrating eye. Provokes a real feeling... More

2000. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] TANUMA Takeyoshi. NINGEN BANZAI HANDS AND VOICES Photographs by Takeyoshi Tanuma. Tokyo, Creo Corporation, 2000. Folio, boards, illustrated throughout with color photos taken all over the world by Tanuma. Signed on the ffep by Tanuma. Fine condition in dustwrapper. More

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN] ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923. Oblong 11" x 15" grey cloth cord-bound covers. 93 original b/w photographs 4 3/8" x 6" mounted on thick card stock, two per page.Bookplate to fly leaf reads "ex libris K. Sinkai". Boards are slightly... More

1979. (PHOTOGRAPHY). THE GLASS-HOUSE YEARS: Victorian Portrait Photography, 1839-1870. By Elizabeth Heyert. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld & Schram, (1979). First American edition. 4to., maroon cloth. Slightly soiled at front board. Near fine, in a mildly sunned dust jacket. More

1919. [PHOTOGRAPHY- JAPAN]. HOSHITA Eishô, photographer. SCENES ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAYS ZEN SHIBERI TESTUDÔ SHASHIN-CHÔ. Urajio [Vladivostok] Taishô 8 [1919] Contemporary oblong folio rebacked. Album of 250 photo illustrations of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Allied Siberian Expedition 1918-1922 ranging in size from 3 5/8" x 5 1/8" to... More

1937. [PHOTOGRAPHY] KIMURA Ihei. KOGATA KAMERA NO UTSUSHIKATA TSUKAIKATA. Tokyo, Genkôsha, Shôwa 12 [1937]. 8vo. A master's handbook to photographic techniques, here on the use of the pocket camera. Kimura Ihei's second publication, from his early years. It includes the famous images of a market-day in Naha (Okinawa) as well..... More

1934. [PHOTOGRAPHY] OZAKI Sankichi. POOTOREETO NO UTSUSHIKATA PORTRAIT Tokyo: ARS, Shôwa 14 [1939]. 8vo. Techniques for portrait photography by Ozaki (1912-1994), an important photographer in pre-war Japan. From the ARS series of practical handbooks on photographic technique. The original edition. Some rubbing on the spine, else very good in rubbed slipcase. More

1881. [RAILROAD]. BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF LOCOMOTIVES. BURNHAM, PARRY, WILLIAMS & CO., PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. Second edition. 153 pp. + 18 original albumen photographs, mounted on stiff paper. 4to., darkest burgundy cloth over beveled boards, stamped in gilt and black. Moderate shelfwear, cloth... More

19. LEGRAND, Edy. ROUGET, Bernard, photographer, et al. ESQUISSE D'UN PORTRAIT DE LA MAROCAINE. [N.p., n.d., but perhaps Casablanca: Societe Shell du Maroc, circa 1950-1960]. Text in French. [16] pp. essay by Francois Bonjean, illustrated by Edy Legrand, accompanied by a group of 8 black and white photographs by Bernard... More

1918. [SIBERIAN EXPEDITION]. Teikoku Gunjin Kyôiku-kai, editors. SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHÔ. Tôkyô, Taishô Tsûshinsha, Taishô 7 [1918] Oblong folio, bound western-style in cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in collotype. Photos and cations on the International Siberian Expedition in support of the Whites against the Red Army, in which the Japanese played..... More

1890. STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. [n.d. ca. 1890]. 361 pp. 8vo., purple and white cloth stamped in gilt. Frontispiece (illustration) plus 18 tipped-in plates, 13 of which are gelatin silver prints, the rest being b/w illustrations. All but two... More