Japan
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# 50802
EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)
Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.
[=The genealogical relationship of most languages of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …
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# 50391
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
China and Japan pocket map showing political divisions, cities and towns, railroads, waterways, etc.
[Cover title]. New York ; Chicago ; San Francisco : Rand McNally & Company, [c.1938]. Tall octavo folding card (235 x 110 mm), front annotated by the original owner ‘Purchased 1952 March’; containing the large folding colour map ‘Rand McNally Standard Map of China and Japan’, 500 x 680 mm, scale 1:8,744,000; verso with printed …
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# 48825
THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)
Relations de divers voyages curieux,
qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …
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# 49135
IGUCHI, Jōhan
天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)
Osaka : Ganshōdō, 1897 (first published in Osaka by Itamiya Mohe Kaihan, 1689). Five volumes, octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked); printed title labels, 32, 31, 37, 64, 54 folding leaves, with 60 woodcut illustrations of astronomical diagrams, devices and star maps, including a volvelle in volume three; complete; housed in a modern slipcase. A …
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# 50382
HEYLYN, Peter
Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.
by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …
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# 50632
Anon.
Bartender’s guide to the best mixed drinks
Tokyo : Kasuga Boeki K.K., circa 1955. Revised edition. Distributed by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Small quarto, illustrated boards, title leaf, pp. 143; [blank]; 7, black and white photographic plates of bar utensils, wet stamp from a Melbourne bookshop to front endpaper, a very fine copy. Attractive bartender’s guide to mixing over 220 cocktails in …
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# 48726
BARNETT, P. Neville
Hiroshige
Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1938. Limited to 200 copies signed and numbered by the author, this is copy 156. Small quarto, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered boards, illustrated endpapers, pp 45, [1] colophon, illustrated with 20 chuban woodcut prints after Hiroshige, tipped in (some ghosting from the glue as usual); a near fine …
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# 48725
BARNETT, P. Neville
Souvenir of Japanese colour-prints (presentation copy)
Sydney : privately printed for the author, 1936. Quarto, lettered textured cards, string bound, colour print to upper wrapper, pp. [12], tipped-in colour prints, some offsetting from the glue, a very good copy. Limited to 65 copies for presentation, signed and numbered by Barnett, this copy is number 37 and a presentation copy for S. …
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# 48717
BARNETT, P. Neville
Figure prints of Japan (Special De-Luxe edition)
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1948. Large quarto (450 mm tall), white vellum over floral decorated silk covered boards, decorated endpapers, 54pp. printed on hand-made paper with numerous tipped-in Japanese woodcuts, offsetting from glue as usual, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to preliminary blank. Limited to 100 copies, this one of the 47 …
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# 48669
BARNETT, P. Neville
Japanese colour-prints
Sydney : Privately printed [by The Beacon Press], 1936. Standard de luxe edition limited to 185 numbered and signed copies, with the author’s seal (this is copy no. 118). Large quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards (lightly foxed), upper board with gilt lettering and device in red, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rule, decorated …
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# 48731
BARNETT, P. Neville
Souvenir of glimpses at Ukiyo-ye and Nishiki-ye : brocade prints of Japan (first printing)
Sydney : Privately published, 1942. Edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies with author’s seal (this is copy no. 29). Quarto, original stiff wrappers with black lettering to front, original blue silk ties, 16 pp, with tipped-in colour illustrations and 2 tipped-in black and white photographs advertising the de-luxe editions of Glimpses at Ukiyo-ye …
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# 48718
BARNETT, P. Neville (1881-1953)
Colour-prints of Hiroshige
Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon press, 1937. Folio, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered silk (a few marks, a little discoloured along upper and lower edge from glue in the binding, as often found), patterned endpapers, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to front pastedown, 83 pp. illustrated with 64 original woodblocks after Hiroshige, …
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# 48431
BEATO, Felix; FLOYD, William Pryor; BOURNE, Samuel
Views in Japan, India, & China
[1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt ‘Views in Japan, India, & China’; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; …
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# 15197
Aduarte, Diego; González, Domingo
Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]
En Manila : en el Colegio de Santo Thomas, por Luis Beltran impressor de libros, 1640. First edition. Two volumes in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum (a little stained, lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; front pastedown with old ex libris of the Bibliotheca Magni Mexicani Conventus S. P.N. S. Francisco (early Convent …
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# 49520
Coelho, Gaspar (c.1529-1590); Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606)
Lettera annale delle cose del Giapone del M. D. LXXXII.
Rome : Francesco Zannetti, 1585. Octavo, early full vellum,, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 118; title with woodcut Jesuit device; stamp from the Casa Professa to title leaf a fine copy. A slightly expanded edition of the Lettera annale, the annual report from Japan on missionary progress during the year …
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# 48752
Fróis, Luís et al.
Brevis Iapaniae insulae descriptio,
à Patribus Societatis Iesu nuper gestarum, succincta narratio : item, insigne quoddam martyrium, quod in Aphrica quidam pro Christiana religione Catholica inuicta constantia subijt. Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Köln] : Birckmann, 1582. Duodecimo (157 x 100 mm), modern gilt-panelled red morocco with gilt dentelles; title leaf with woodcut device, and with early ownership inscriptions; [2], 46 leaves; …