London: Faber & Faber, [1955]. Third impression (originally published in 1953); 12mo, pp. 107, [1]; blue cloth gilt in pictorial dust jacket; light spotting to edges, else near fine. Inscribed by Partridge to Anthony Clarkson, "with whom it has been a pleasure for me to do businesss." Additionally, Partridge has... More
London: George Routledge & Sons ltd. [1947]. Third edition revised, 12mo, pp. ix, [3], 260; green cloth gilt; near fine in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Partridge to Laurie Atkinson, contributor of a number of terms and phrases to his projects, and with a peppering of annotations by Partridge... More
![The great earthquake in Japan ... With plates by K[azumasa] Ogawa. John Milne, , W. K. Burton.](/pictures/thumb/52464_1.jpg?v=1523980004)
Tokyo & Yokohama: Lane, Crawford & Co., printed at the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, n.d. [1891]. First edition, oblong folio, (approx. 11½" x 16"; 29 x 41 cm.); pp. [6], 10, and 29 collotype plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and an explanatory leaf of text, plus a full-page... More
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. Edition limited to 612 copies, this one of 600 on paper (12 were on vellum), 2 volumes, 16mo, printed in Chaucer type in red and black, volume I with woodcut title page, facing page with full woodcut border, numerous 7-line and smaller capital initials, erratum slip... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece in each volume, large folding map, 1 folding panorama, 2 frontispiece portraits, nearly 800 illustrations throughout, primarily from photographs, many full-page; ex-James J. Hill Library, with accession numbers on spine and a perforated stamp in bottom margin of... More
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 411, [1]; color frontispiece, 95 photographic plates by Peary, and 2 folding maps; ex-James J. Hill Library, with accession numbers on spine and a perforated stamp in bottom margin of the title page; all else very good in... More
Chicago: for the Newberry Library by the Univ. of Chicago Press, 1968. First edition, 4to, pp. xxv, [1], 854; frontis portrait; text in double column; near fine in a near fine dust-jacket with light edge wear. Standard reference, including paginations and annotations. More
New York: R.R. Bowker for the Newberry Library, 1962. Large 8vo, pp. 652, text in double column; very good in original brown cloth. An essential reference, with collations and annotations. More
Hammersmith, 1897 [issued: 1898]. Edition limited to 308 copies, this 1/300 on paper, large 4to, original stiff vellum, gilt-lettered spine, 6 silk ties; fine, in a protective slipcase and chemise. Printed in Troy and Chaucer types in red and black, woodcut initial capitals in blue and black, woodcut frontispiece W.H.... More
London: printed for J. & P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell [et al.], 1747. First edition, second state (without Chesterfield's name on A2 recto), 4to, pp. [2], 34; a very good copy in early 20th-century blue half morocco, spine with longitudinal title between two raised bands and decorations in... More
London: 1849-59. Charles John Kean (1811–1868) was destined to usher Shakespeare into the forefront of the Victorian public consciousness. His father, Edmund Kean (1787–1833), had been lauded as a restorer of Shakespeare, garnering success through his passionate portrayals of Hamlet, Lear, and others. Charles would prove an antithesis to his father’s... More
London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. 302, [2]; original blue cloth, gilt title direct on spine, top edge stained blue (rubbed); boards rubbed and bumped, textblock a bit cocked, light spotting mostly to first and last few leaves, good. Inscribed by "Miles" to Douglas... More
Geneva, Paris, Munich: Nagel Publishers, [1965]. Folio, pp. 157, [1]; text illustrations through out, including tipped-in color plates; white cloth gilt, light spotting and wear to covers and dust jacket, a couple plate mounts have perished but the plates remain attached. More
Venetiis: [Ottaviano Scoto], 1539. Small folio, collating A-E^4, a-r^8, s-t^6, gathering g misbound but all leaves present; vignette title page, three large and many smaller historiated initials throughout; Ottaviano Scotto's printer's mark on final leaf; contemporary full vellum with raised bands on spine neatly recovered, leather ties (replaced), and contemporary... More
![Romaji [Vol. 1 No. 1 - Vol. 1 No. 2]](/pictures/thumb/51306_2.jpg?v=1523980002)
Tokyo: Romaji Hirome Kai, Oct 1905 - Sept 1906. A run of the first year of Romaji, "the only Japanese journal transcribed the the roman characters." 4to, pp. 12 for all issues but the first, which is 10 pages; illustrations throughout, later issues with color on self-wrappers. Bound in later... More
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1905. First edition, imperial 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 315, [1]; color frontispiece portrait, 14 color plates,128 illustrations in the text (a number full-page), mostly after paintings and watercolors by the author, plus 1 folding plate; original beige buckram with a large color insert on the front... More
Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, [1914-15?]. First edition?, 8vo, 2 vols, contemporary full green morocco, marbled edges and endpapers; spines sunned, edges rubbed, wear to the lower board of vol. 1, boards bowed, fore-edge of vol. 2 roughed up (text spared), text sound and bright. Material derived partially from the... More
Lisboa: Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1762. Folio, pp. [12], 603, [1]; 21 copper-engraved maps, charts, and plates (several folding), one large engraved compass rose in the text, numerous woodcut diagrams; first 2 or 3 leaves amaturishly reinserted clean tears in one of the folding plates (a long one, but without... More
Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung von J.G. Hasselberg, [1831]. 16mo, pp. [4], 158; 19 hand-colored costume plates of different ranks and one plate of writing utensils; original blue printed boards; very good. The date supplied by GV 1700-1910, per OCLC which locates 3 copies, only Princeton in North America. Identified in... More
Yokohama: published for the author partly at C. Levy and the Sei Shi Bunsha Co. 1879. First edition, pp. [6], 23, [1]; 23 wood-engraved plates; bound with, likely as issued (although in OCLC they are recorded separately): McLeod, N. Album, and guide book of Japan from Satsuporo in the north... More
[Seoul?]: [published by Troop Information & Education Section, GHQ, Far East Command], [1949]. Large 8vo, pp. xii, 220; heavily illustrated, pictorial paper wrappers; owner's name on upper cover and date on flyleaf, spine chipped, very good. An introduction to Korean history, culture, and industry, for the benefit of GIs stationed... More
![Shocking au Japon. De l'evolution de l'art dans l'empire du soleil lavant. Dessins de Georges Bigot [cover title]. Fernand Ganesco.](/pictures/thumb/51250_1.jpg?v=1523979195)
[Yokohama: 1895]. 8vo, pp. iv, 51, [3]; 15 cartoon text illustrations, pictorial printed covers in red and black, bound with red silk ribbon; ribbons present but mostly snapped with leaves nearly loose, covers soiled and chipped, light worming, small closed tear on one leaf; good, or better. The illustrator Georges... More
Japan: [c. 1850s]. Manuscript hand scroll, 10.5" x 151.5", 10 color images, 7 of various whales and dolphins (harpoons, a ship, and blubber processing apparatus also appear), with descriptions in Japanese and many with their Latin names in a contemporary hand; owner's stamp by each image, heavily wormed along edges... More
Paris: Techener, Place du Louvre, 1839. Edition limited to 80 copies, 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; printed in Bordeaux by Th. Lefargue on pink paper throughout; contemporary full straight-grain calf, double gilt rules enclosing the gilt supralibros of the Bibliotheca Cortina on both covers; Bibliotheca Cortina bookplate; light wear; very good. More
[London]: published by I[saac] Ware, n.d. [ca. 1733]. Large 8vo, 4 p.l., followed by 48 engraved plates (6 double page); engraved throughout; contemporary full diced russia, elaborate gilt borders on cover, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt design on spine; occasional mild dampstaining affecting 3 plates on the rectos; very... More
