![Item #48392 空から見た東京 [= Views of metropolitan Tokyo from the sky]. Keiji Nishimura, ed](/images/noimage.png)
Tokyo: Nihon Kōtsū Kōsha Shuppan Jigyōkyoku, 1979. 11" x 8.25", 122 arial photos of Tokyo in color, perfect bound in pictorial paper covers; text in Japanese; lightly age toned, otherwise fine. An image of Tokyo in the midst of its economic hayday. More
![Item #26927 和譯スヘルリーング [Wayaku suheruring.] English & Japanese spelling book....](/pictures/thumb/26927_!.jpg?v=1613418188)
Tokyo, Osaka & Kyoto: Gasho-do, 1872. New edition, fukurotoji, 7" x 5", 1, 30 leaves; yellow wrappers, printed paper label (slightly chipped) on upper cover; wrappers soiled, else very good. Interlinear text in English and Japanese in katakana and kanji. Based of material from Noah Webster. Not found in OCLC..... More
Tokyo: Sanseido Co., Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 56 plus 80 color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 20 plates printed in green from pressings, and a 4-p. index; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; covers spotted, else very good and sound. More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986. First edition, folio, pp. 103, [1]; approx. 50 color photographs; perfect boundin pictorial paper wrappers. Fine. An exhibition catalog. More
Tokyo: Shuueisha, 2002. pp. 92, [6], 64, [2]; full-color illustrations throughout, one folding illustration; full white cloth, fine in fine dust jacket and book band. More
![Item #30492 Japanese costume before the restoration. [With:] Military costume in old Japan. K. Ogawa](/pictures/thumb/30492_1.jpg?v=1468011789)
Tokyo: K. Ogawa [printed by C. B. Woodward, St. Louis], [1893]. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [4] plus 17 plates; [4] plus 15 plates; the 32 photographs by K. Ogawa, under the direction of Ko-yu-kai; original illustrated cardstock covers with original silk ties largely perished; covers lightly soiled with..... More
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1989. 12" x 8.5", pp. 67, [1]; 52 color photographs, map, plans; text in Japanese; green cloth in pictorial dust jacket; jacket flaps creased, else fine; a visual tour of the grounds and buildings, many of which were built elsewhere and reloacated. More
Tokyo: NHK, 2015. 4to, 2 volumes, pp. 223, [1] (main text); liii, [3] (English translation volume); illustrated throughout with images of fossils; text in Japanese; pictorial stiff paper covers, fine. Published in conjunction with a special exhibition. More
Amsterdam: J. Müller & comp. 1833. First and only contemporary edition (a facsimile was done in Japan in 1978); 4to, pp. [10], 320; 15 beautifully rendered hand-colored lithographs; some occasional foxing but in all a very nice copy internally with original printed wrappers bound in, and in what appears to..... More
Tokyo, Rutland, New York: Japan Publications Trading Company, [1965]. Second printing (same year as the first), 4to, pp. 368; text illustrations throughout; full black cloth, gilt title on spine; fine, in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket, and with original cardboard slipcase with just some rubbing to label. More
![Item #29213 Guide-book excursion[s] A-1 - E-5. Pan-Pacific Science Congress](/pictures/thumb/29213_1.jpg?v=1613418188)
Tokyo: National Research Council, Dept. of Education, 1926. A nearly complete file of these guide-books to the geology of Japan, prepared for the delegates of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress; 24 (of 26) volumes, small 8vo, each generally fine in original printed wrappers, 6 to 50 pages, many with plates and..... More
Tokyo: Librairie Sansaisha, [1909]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 842; frontispiece, pictorial title-page, illustrated throughout; original brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt; about fine. Still a useful reference, gives a summary account of the principal events and names that occur in Japan's history and geography. More
The Hague: Mouton & Co, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. 263; numerous black & white pictorial illustrations as well as illustrations within the text, bookseller's ticket on front paste-down, extremities lightly soiled, otherwise near fine in original mustard cloth. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1860. 12mo, pp. viii, 415, [7, ads]; frontispiece, numerous text illustrations; original green cloth pebbled cloth; small stains to cloth, overall very good. More
[Tokyo]: Kodansha International Ltd., [1974]. First edition, 4to, pp. 239; profusely illustrated (some in color), near fine in original brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. More
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co, 1854. First edition, 12mo, pp. i-xi, [25]-343, [1]; original brown cloth, gilt decorated spine; inscribed by Blox to Rev. Nicholas Steinbacker on free endpaper; spine chipped at extremities and cloth partially cracked along the joints; one leaf with a two-inch closed tear (no loss); good..... More
[Bunkyo, Tokyo & Seattle, WA]: The Toyo Bunko & The University of Washington Press, 1964. tall 8vo, pp. 387; errata slip laid in; near fine in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. More
Paris: Librairie Paul Paclot, n.d., [ca. 1900]. Oblong folio, pp. [124]; illustrated with 245 drawings by the author; original red cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover; rear hinge cracked, paper toned, small gouge in spine, extremities rubbed; a good copy. Descriptions with illustrations of Japan's customs, manners, religion, military, music..... More
Paris: Bibliothèque Des Arts, [1967]. 4to, pp. 271; extensively illustrated with color and black & white images, some plates tipped in, extremities lightly soiled, small tear to top of spine of jacket, else a very good copy in white buckram, pictorial dust jacket. More
[Surrey]: Japan Library, [2001]. 8vo, pp. xii, 291; [1]; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. A checklist with occasional comments from the author. More
Los Angeles: Crystal Tone Records, made for Kierulff & Co., n.d., [ca. 1942?]. Four 78-rpm 6½" red vinyl discs in original sleeves; condition fine; recording with usual scratches, but entirely audible. More
[Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten Newtype, 1996]. Fifth printing, folio, pp. 95, [3]; text in Japanese with English captions; full color illustrations throughout; red printed paper self-wrappers; fine in near fine dust jacket, book band with slight wear. Sadamoto is one of the founding artists of Gainax and was character artist for..... More
Tokyo: Gihido, 1962. 8vo, pp. 7, [3], 50, [2], 198, [2], 31, [3]; preliminaries in Japanese with English translation laid in, hundreds of illustrations, including plans, layouts, landscapes, and details, most photographic, a few in color, with captions in Japanese and English; blue and white cloth boards with details in..... More
Osaka: Goushodou, 1872. Small 8vo (approx. 7" x 5"), 21 leaves folded and sewn in the Japanese manner, English text with interlinear Kanji characters; illustrated throughout with approximately 40 vignette woodcuts; original yellow wrappers, pink paper label on upper cover, and preserving the original printed sleeve (i.e. fukuro) in Japanese..... More
n.p. Kyouiku Zasshi, 1949. Broadside, 14.75" x 20.5"; Sugoroku, or dice game, depicting a 20 questions type guessing game between children, printed in offset and dot matrix; old folds, else fine. Likely a supplement to 教育雑誌 (Kyouiku Zasshi) vol. 4, no. 1, a childhood education magazine. Sugoroku is a popular..... More
