London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund [and] sold by J. Murray, 1829. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 69, [3]; 9 lithograph plates, 7 hand-colored; original olive green cloth boards, neatly rebacked in matching morocco, gilt lettering direct on spine; a few spots on the back cover and..... More

Buintenzorg, Java: Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel. Afdeeling Handel, [1920]. Second edition, tall 8vo, pp. viii, 275, [1], 60 (ads); mounted frontispiece, 4 large folding maps (world, Malay Archipelago and Java) printed in color, and 49 plates (several in color and 3 folding), largely from photographs; original ochre cloth..... More

[Jaffna: Press of the American Mission, 1835]. 12mo, pp. 12; text in Tamil in three columns, with vocabulary of increasing complexity; original paper wrappers, fine. One copy only in OCLC, in Germany. More

[Tokyo: Nihon Mingei Kyokai, 1938]. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 63, [9] (ads), plus two stencil illustrations by Kawakami and 17 laid in plates of Kawakami's work; original printed dust jacket, also illustrated by Kawakami. Some discoloration of title from the ink, dust jacket spine with small..... More

Tokyo and Osaka: Houbunkan, 1902-1903. 25 issues, complete, bound in two volumes; portraits of famous Westerners in each issue, green cloth, volume one with upper hinge split and spine separated, contents partially disbound, second volume with initial gathering loose, hinges split, but otherwise sound. A back section, likely a form..... More

Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, [1997]. 4to, 2 vols, pp. 148; 156; text in traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout; pictorial paper wrappers; fine in fine pictorial slipcase. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as..... More

Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, [1997]. 4to, 2 vols, pp. 168; 100; text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout, including facsimiles of 37 Dutch maps of Taiwan; pictorial paper wrappers, fine in fine pictorial slipcase. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with..... More

[Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1996]. A collection of 100 bound postcards, 5.75" x 4.25"; 100 cards plus four pages of introduction; text in Traditional Chinese; stiff pictorial card wrappers; some creasing to spine, else fine. Each postcard depicts a folk design of a traditional auspicious image, along with some information about..... More

Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1985. Square 4to, pp. 437, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; original pictorial wrappers bound in recent brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Fine copy. More

[n.p.], [n.d.] (circa 1890's). Colored woodblock triptych; each panel measuring approx., 37 x 25 cm; Japanese text and seals in upper right and lower left corners; very lightly creased at corners, else fine. A vibrant and colorful depicture of the battle of Dagu Mountain during the Sino-Japanese War. More

Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 2000. Collection of 18 posters on 12 folded sheets approx. 39" x 44", bound in via perforation; showing classic New Years images, paper cut patterns, and images of dragons. pictorial paper wrappers, fine. Hansheng Magazine was an award winning project, dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of..... More

[Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1997]. 4to, pp. 100; text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout, showing the process of cloth making and examples of cloth both modern and ancient; pictorial paper wrappers, bound double leaf style. Fine. Hansheng Magazine was an award winning project, dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of..... More

Tokyo: Heishiro [?], 1861. Large, folding hand-colored world map approximately 53" square (map itself is approx. 38" x 50"), the map surrounded by 158 hand-colored flags of nations, states, etc., with detailed tables at the bottom giving statistics on the world's largest rivers, mountains, lakes, islands, countries and their populations..... More