Day: December 19, 2018

BAYARD, Taylor. A Visit to India, China and Japan, in the Year 1853 London, Sampson Low, Sons & Co., 1856. £350 8vo, pp. 539, illustrated frontispiece and title-page, both slightly dumpstained. Generally very clean and crisp throughout. […]

MITFORD, Algernon Bertram. Tales of Old Japan London, Macmillan, 1876. £75 8vo, pp. 383, 28 plus 2 final leaves of printer’s catalogue. With illustrations drawn and cut on wood by Japanese artists. Frontispiece detached and with tissue […]

TRISTRAM, Henry Baker. Rambles in Japan. The Land of the Rising Sun London, The Religious Tract Society, 1895.       SOLD   FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 304, with 45 illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue paper guard) by […]

SLADEN, Douglas, and Norma LORIMER. More Queer Things about Japan, to which are added A Précis of the Terms of Peace, and a Skeleton History of the entire War, specially compiled for this edition, entitled “The War […]

TURNBALL LADD, George. Rare Days in Japan London, Longmans, 1910. £60 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 341, with frontispiece and tissue paper guard and several b&w plates throughout. Blue buckram, gilt-tooled title to spine, stamped floral decorations. Binding […]

  PONTING, Herbert G.. In Lotus–Land Japan London, Macmillan, 1910. £250 FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. 394. 8 coloured plates with illustrations (one at the frontispiece with tissue paper guard) and 100 b&w illustrated plates throughout. Bound […]

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy. Japan. A Record in Colour London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903. £100 8vo, pp. 206 (=207) and 100 plates of colour illustrations, each with tissue-paper guard. Dedication in pen, partly unreadable, inscribed on left […]

TSUDZUMI, Tsuneyoshi. Die Kunst Japans Leipzig, Insel Verlag, 1929. £95 FIRST EDITION. Large 4to, pp. 341, with frontispiece plate, copiously illustrated throughout with both coloured and b&w images. Ex-libris of “Brinkmann” with motto “nec aspera terrent” inscribed […]

NORMAN, Henry. The Real Japan. Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners, Morals, Administration, and Politics  London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. £90 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 364, frontispiece plate, illustrated with photographs by the author. Untrimmed leaves. Inscribed with […]