Category: Japan

DICK, Stewart. Arts and Crafts of Old Japan Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1914. £25 8vo, pp. 153 followed by 3 unnumbered pages of publisher’s catalogue. Issued as part of “The World of Art Series”. Red cloth with […]

HEARN, Lafcadio. Kokoro Frankfurt am Main, Literarische Anstalt Rütten & Loening, 1913. £100 FIRST GERMAN EDITION (first edition published in Boston in 1896). 8vo, pp. 291.Volume no. 1 of a collection of 6. Pasteboard binding, black ink […]

NORMAN, Henry. The Peoples and Politics of the Far East. Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. £100 FIRST EDITION. pp. […]

WALDO BROWNE, George. Japan. The Place and the People Boston, Dana Estes & Company, 1901. £110 FIRST EDITION. 4to. Coloured frontispiece plate, title-page, 4 leaves (introduction, contents and list of illustrations) and 438 pages. With over three […]

BAYARD, Taylor. A Visit to India, China and Japan, in the Year 1853 London, Sampson Low, Sons & Co., 1856. £150 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 […]