Asia
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# 40887
FUKUDA
Japanese Girls
[Title from envelope]. [Yokohama] : Fukuda, [between 1955 and 1960]. Original illustrated envelope (some very light corner wear), 65 x 160 mm, verso with mailing address flap and publisher’s series “No. 5”, containing [8] (of 8) colour postcards of Japanese women in traditional costume, all in mint condition; complete, as issued, and scarce thus.
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# 29235
KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.
In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …
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# 40288
LETAILLE, Charles
Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.
Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …
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# 40262
SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)
The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.
/ By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …
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# 24932
ROCK, William and Henry
Playing card with map of Asia including Australia
[London : William & Henry Rock, 1839]. Single playing card (from the deck of 52), 97 x 65 mm, verso blank, recto with engraved map of Asia stretching fro the Arctic Ocean to Van Diemen’s Land, the Australian continent divided between New Holland and New South Wales, with coloured diamond in the centre. From the …
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# 39617
de WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula : in omnes partes divisa, de nova correcta, ac in lucem edita
per Fredericum de Witt Amstelodami cum privilegio D.D. ordinum Hollandiae Westristacqs ; F. de Wit excudit. [Amsterdam : Frederik de Wit, circa 1688]. Copperplate engraving on paper, 58.0 cm in diameter, on sheet 51.0 x 61.0 cm, original hand colouring, a couple of paper reinforcements verso, a very good copy. A fine large format seventeenth century …
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# 39688
SHIMADA, Yoshifumi (1898 - 1973, lyricist); KOGA, Masao (1904 - 1978, composer)
“A beautiful evening”
Tōkyō : Hakubi Shuppansha, Showa 6 (1931). Sheet music for voice, piano and harmonica, fine art deco lithographed cover (artist unknown), pp. [8], a little silverfished on lower wrapper. No. 113 in the Hakubi Super Special Selection of Music Scores series.
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# 39687
MIKI, Akiko; ISSIHIKI, Yoshiko and SATO, Tomoko (editors)
Araki. Nobuyoshi Araki : self, life, death
London : Phaidon Press, 2005. First edition.. Quarto, papered boards in illustrated dustjacket (pale sunning to spine), pp. 720, illustrated. A fine copy of the first edition, the most comprehensive monograph on Araki. Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan’s greatest living photographers, and certainly its most controversial. Over the last forty years he has published …
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![Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the "Preble" to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/12/15142435/2022_DSFB_8084-300x300.jpg)
# 38391
Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the “Preble” to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.
[Japan] : House of Representatives, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 84, [1850]. Octavo (225 mm), recent half black calf; pp. 44; a fine copy. In August 1848, the American whaler Lagoda was shipwrecked off Hokkaido. The 15 surviving crew were detained and taken to Nagasaki. Commander James Glynn, in the USS Preble, was …
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# 35151
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)
Missionary lotto.
London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …
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![`Hamonika Gakufu` [ハーモニカ楽譜]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104313/2022_DSFB_4914-300x300.jpg)
# 36576
`Hamonika Gakufu` [ハーモニカ楽譜]
Tokyo : Shochiku Kinema: Bikuta, etc., Showa 3-6 [1928-31]. A collection of 6 Japanese music scores for the harmonica, offset-printed covers stunningly designed in an early Showa style by notable illustrators such as Imai Hisamaro, Saito Kazo, etc. 4 pamphlets measuring 26.3x19cm, each pp. 4 – 6. (including wrappers), one pamphlet measuring 26.3 x 19cm, pp. 24 (plus …
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# 35361
HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)
Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs
London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …
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# 28901
BOWLES AND CARVER
Bowles’s new one sheet map of Asia, divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States, and other subdivisions; laid down from observations of the most celebrated geographers.
London : Bowles and Carver, 1801. Engraved map with original hand colouring, laid on wood and dissected, three blank replacement pieces (the lost pieces in the regions of Java, Sumatra and Hokkaido), the assembled map measuring 485 x 582 mm, housed in the original cedar box with sliding lid, letterpress title label. A fine early …
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# 34601
[BIRDWOOD, William Riddell, Field Marshal, 1st Baron Birdwood, 1865-1951]; BIRDWOOD, Christopher Bromhead, 2nd Baron Birdwood, 1899-1962 (compiler)
Birdwood family scrapbook relating to the military service of Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood (Commander of ANZAC) and his son, Major Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (Aide-de-Camp, Australian Corps). Gallipoli, Western Front and India, 1915-1930.
An important archive containing approximately 50 items of manuscript and printed ephemera (letters, maps, documents and photographs) pertaining to the military service of Field Marshal William Birdwood (1865-1951), commander of ANZAC at Gallipoli in the Great War, and of his son Christopher Bromhead Birdwood (1899-1962), who acted as the Field Marshal’s Aide-de-Camp in France while …
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# 18176
[TAKAMATSU, M.]
Japanese merchant’s catalogue of Chinese export furniture, with original mounted photographs.
[Japan] : M. Takamatsu, [c.1910]. Quarto, 250 x 190 mm, bound in Japanese folding accordion style, in the original wooden boards (textile coverings perished), wet stamp of the merchant ‘M. Takamatsu’ to front and rear pastedowns, comprising [38] leaves of thick card with 152 sepia printing-out paper photographs of Chinese export furniture, probably destined for …
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# 33310
O'DWYER, Michael Francis (1864-1940)
A visit to Russian Central Asia.
/ By Michael Francis O’Dwyer, I.C.S., Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab. pp. 479-512 in: Journal of the Society of Arts, April 16, 1897. London : The Society, 1897. Octavo (250 x 165 mm), stitchbound, pp. i-ii, 479-514, iii-iv; one double-page with 4 photomechanical process illustrations of mosques and tombs in Samarkand and the …