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1950016276Japan: Japan 1950. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 484 pages of text. Flexible hardcover binding with minor creasing and shelfwear. Protected in the original printed cardboard slipcase which is heavily worn and splitting at two seams. The text is clean and unmarked. All publishing details including the edition are in Japanese; date assumed to be circa 1950. Japan Hardcover books
1858WRCAM52130AJapan 1858. Five volumes. 58; 58; 54; 58; 58pp. Original stiff textured tan wrappers stitched as issued each with printed paper title label. Some minor shelf wear and dust soiling. Very good. An attractive set of the "Ansei Five-Power Treaties" the formal diplomatic engagements between Japan and the United States United Kingdom France Russia and the Netherlands ending Japan's 250 years of seclusion and opening its ports to worldwide commercial trade so named for their signing in the fifth year of the Ansei era. The first treaty also known as the Harris Treaty was signed by the U.S. on the deck of the USS "Powhatan" in Edo now Tokyo Bay on July 29 1858. It opened the ports of of Shimoda Hakodate Kanagawa and Nagasaki to foreign trade effective July 4 1859 and then Niigata and Hyogo on January 1 1860 and January 1 1863 respectively. In addition to extensive trade and consular provisions the treaty also established the rights of U.S. citizens to reside permanently lease property purchase real estate and construct residences and warehouses; established a system of extraterritoriality whereby U.S. residents were subject only to the laws of their own consular courts and not the Japanese legal system; and established freedom of religious expression and the right to construct churches to serve the needs of U.S. residents within the confines of designated foreign settlements. The treaty followed the Convention of Kanagawa signed under threat of force in 1854 after Commodore Matthew Perry's aggressive visits to the Shogunate in 1853 and 1854. The Convention had granted coaling rights for U.S. ships and allowed for an American consul in Shimoda but Perry left the more important trading negotiations to Townsend Harris New York businessman and eventually the first U.S. Consul General to Japan. <br> <br> Each of the five volumes details the negotiations between Japan and a specific foreign power. These other accords are similar and duly inspired by the U.S. treaty; each nation forced Japan to grant the same "favored nation" provisions they had granted to the U.S. The Dutch already had several treaties with Japan; they were the only Western power to retain trade relations with Japan after the final expulsion of Europeans in 1638 and had been advising and supplying the Japanese navy since 1853. However once the U.S. had sealed its "Treaty of Amity" the Dutch quickly revised theirs to match on August 18 1858; Russia followed on August 19; Lord Elgin signed for Britain on August 26; and Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros commander of the French expedition in China signed for France on October 9 1858. Subsequent Japanese and Chinese scholars refer to these treaties and subsequent agreements as the "unequal treaties" as none of the provisions were ever reciprocated. <br> <br> This set is uncommon. We found only one record for another incomplete set at auction. This is the first time we have handled this title. unknown books
193513899np Japan nd ca. 1935. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong 4to. double string-tied commercial album silk brocade bound 9" x 12". Containing 60 4.5" x 6" silver gelatin prints mounted to heavy gilt-edges card-stock one to a page both recto and verso. Printed captions in English additionally mounted below each photo. Near fine or better with only touches of wear to extremities. Quite well-preserved. <br/><br/>A handsome and rather lavish production by an unknown but likely professional photographer possibly as presentation for special occasion or visit from foreign dignitary/delegation. Undated but clearly pre-war and based on internal evidence ca. 1935-1940. A broad range of scenes from Japanese domestic and cultural life are included: cormorant fishing the tea ceremony flower arrangement Kabuki and Noh theater Sumo and other sports kendo archery battledore shuttlecock festivals musicians rice and tea harvesting as well as scenes of shrines temples cherry blossoms and gardens. More modern scenes include Tokyo street scenes a Nikko cable car and silk mill workers. An attractive and informative look at Japan in the years immediately preceding WWII. hardcover books
196034948New York: Information Office Consulate General of Japan 1960. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy. Unpaged 24 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. Obl. 8vo. Information Office, Consulate General of Japan unknown books
1920305381Nikko Japan ca. 1920. 1920. 13 1/2" x 6 1/8". Eight panel folding brochure with multi colored view of the red lacquer "Sacred Bridge" on the front panel. Illustrated with 7 b/w halftone photographs. Fine. No Binding. Fine. Nikko, Japan, ca. 1920. unknown books
1957848701957. JAPAN TRANSACTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ORIENTALISTS IN JAPAN THREE VOLUMES: II 1957 III 1958 AND XI 1964. n.p. The Toho Gakkai The Institute of Eastern Culture 1957-1964. 8vo. yellow wrappers printed in black. Ex-library with pencil notes and/or inkstamps to top of front covers. Interiors clean and tight. Texts in English Japanese or French. Very good plus minimal wear texts clean. unknown books
1860347451860. Two small broadsides each 9 x 11 3/4 inches. Previously folded. Moderate toning and dust soiling faint foxing at outer margins. Good plus. Japanese news sheet on foreigners.<br/> <br/>Two interesting Japanese Kawaraban woodblock news sheets documenting some of the foreigners who visited Japan's shores in the 1850s as the country opened up to the west. The first sheet is in four sections and titled "Western Products and Strange Things." It contains images of an English Captain a black sailor a microscope of Dutch style and a mummified body wrapped in sheets. The second shows a Captain's wife and her wolfhound dog an American Flag and a depiction of four Russian coins obverse and reverse and two other coins dated 1843 and 1854. unknown books
1907309219London: Strker 1907. With 33 tipped in photographs with tipped "Farewell to the "Gneisenau" broadside small broadside of "Coronation of H.M.King George V printed in Yokohama 22nd June 1911.". 8vo. Black and blue cloth with button on cover from Captain of Gneisenau. With 33 tipped in photographs with tipped "Farewell to the "Gneisenau" broadside small broadside of "Coronation of H.M.King George V printed in Yokohama 22nd June 1911.". 8vo. Filled in with an English family's trip to Japan. Started in London on December 11 and boarded the Ship Gneisenau on the morning of the 12th reached Singapore Jan. 11 arrived Nagasaki Jan. 23. Strker unknown books
1950228536Nagoya Japan Aichi Trade Institution n.y. ca. 1950. 1950. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with original woolen and worsted swatches and illustrations; Japanese advertisements throughout. Original spiral bound color stiff pictorial wrappers. Very good. Unpaginated. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. [Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Trade Institution, n.y., ca. 1950]. paperback books
188926938Osaka Japan: Aoki Szandow 1889. C. 120 pages; most of which have an illustration and sometimes two. Text in Japanese; titles given in English. Colin Franklin in 'Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls' calls these publications an "appealing series of guides As travel within Japan had been restricted for three centuries and travel abroad forbidden these represented the new freedom. They combine charm with taste and a fine vagueness about that obsession of modern publishers "the market." As book-production they jump into more popular format with color-printed pictures over boards to bind themwith English captions erratic and fearless the many hundred illustrations which adorn the Japanese text.were they for the tour-guide to show his visitor - or in the world for Japanese travelers to show their guides Neither of these perhaps just a venture over the border into Western habit. They are excellent little books to leaf throughTechnically too they joined West with East. A new method was used for illustration: relief metal-cut like white-line wood engraving - Bewick's technique - difficult and delicate to manage practical in Japan for just a few years in the last quarter of the century. Paper suitable for such fine-line reproduction smooth machine-made was folded at the fore-edges in the traditional Japanese way. End-leaves and all edges were marbled an innovation for which as has been mentioned these books are now admired by collectors in JapanThey providetempting glimpses of all manner of scene and aspect of life on the eve of change" This is one volume of the 7-volume series. Approx. 4" x 6" size; bound in illustrated paper covered boards; cloth spine marbled endpapers all edges marbled. Some edge tips wear to the binding; contents in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Aoki Szandow hardcover books
187826953Gotha Germany: Justus Perthes 1878. Color map of this area only. Approx. 10 1/2" x 16" overall size. from Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen Schnellpressendruck v. C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Small faint previous ownership stamp on one of the back blank panels of the map of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894 & often on-station in various locales in Japan; he has noted a couple of dates on the map journeying from Ozaka to Nara in 1889. A little splitting along old fold lines; in good condition. Map. Not Bound. Good. Justus Perthes paperback books
188726924Chicago Illinois: Rand McNally & Co. 1887. Pocket map of Japan printed in colors detailing the Japanese island system in two separate maps: Northern Japan with an inset at top of Chishima; with the previous owner noting the location of the volcano Bandai-San. Approx. 13 3/4" x 21" overall size; and Southern Japan with inset of Yayeyama and Riukiu Island chain approx. 14" x 20 3/4". With a folding Index and Population of Towns in Japan having a pronunciation list and giving the districts islands lakes mountains provinces rivers and towns; this is printed two sides approx. 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" size. Bookseller's ticket on front inner panel of the cover of Kelly & Walsh Ltd. Printers Publishers Booksellers Stationers &c. &c. &c. No. 28. Yokohama. Small faint previous ownership stamps on the blank panels on the back of the maps as well as on the front endpaper of the cover of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894 & often on-station in various locales in Japan. Maps & index contained in the publisher's dark brown cloth binding approx. 3 1/2" x 6 1/4" size gilt titled. Some color mottling to the case light wear; map papers darkened a little; Northern Japan & the Index loose; Southern Japan still attached to the inner cover; in very good condition. Pocket Map. Hard Cover. Very Good. Rand, McNally & Co. hardcover books
196824630Tokyo Japan: American Chamber of Commerce in Japan 1968. 68 pages with color & black and white illustrations including a 3-panel folding color plate of Ginkon Taiken No Ongoshiki The Great Celebration of the Silver Wedding Anniversary of Their Majesties by Yosai Nobukazu found within the article on the Role of Emperor Meiji in Japan's industrial growth. With pieces on the first direct trade between the U.S. and Japan Nakahama Manjiro house-hunting in Tokyo "Japan-America Relations Threatened by Disharmony" and others including U.S.- Japan export & import statistics trade opportunities social and business news of the Chamber. Approx. 7" x 10" size color-illustrated stapled paper covers. Light wear little spotting to the binding; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. American Chamber of Commerce in Japan Paperback books
195122671Tokyo Japan: Kaizosha 1951. 264 pages; with a black and white photo-illustrated section at front "Franco's Spain"; small illustrations throughout via line drawings some caricatures accompanying articles; text in Japanese; fold-out advertisement section printed in orange; approx. 5 7/8" x 8" size; paper browned not brittle; covers soiled darkened; closed tear to last few leaves; still about good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Kaizosha Paperback books
193022672Tokyo Japan: Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha 1930. 512 pages; with a color fold-out plate of a woman in traditional Japanese costume; another single-page color plate by Kodera; an approx. 23" long folding cartoon-illustrated story tinted in reds; a blue half-tone fold-out section illustrated with male athletic sculptural figures; and black and white illustrations throughout via line drawings cartoon stories some photo-portraits accompanying articles sporting figures including American swim team; text in Japanese; approx. 6" x 8 1/2" size; illustrated paper covers with information for California importation perhaps the publication targeted for the Japanese community there; front cover edge-chipped about detached old tape residue; colors faded; no back cover or spine covering; still about good condition and an interesting compendium of pre-WWII Japanese culture and society in good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha Paperback books
200124631Tokyo Japan: International House 2001. 84 pages with articles on Football Hooliganism as a Global Problem by Eric Dunning; EU-Japan Relations: The Swedish EU Presidency by Krister Kumlin; an essay of Remembrances by Edward Sedensticker and Recollections of Postwar Japan by Burton Watson. Also listing recent library notes from the IHJ the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and new IHJ members. Approx. 6" x 9" size printed paper covers. Light wear little rolling to the binding; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. International House Paperback books
196724625Tokyo Japan: The Japan Times Ltd. 1967. 30 pages with black and white illustrations. Contents with Kabuki miscellanea discussing the Hanamichi: a Second Stage and the various presentations including Ayatsuri Sambaso Yoshinogawa the Kongen Kusozuri Biki and Fuji Musume dances Nozaki Mura Ehon Taiko Ki Saigo to Butahime Kohjo ceremony with participants being recognized for their great skills earned in the world of Kabuki performers; also the Honcho Nijushi Ko Sannin Katawa. Advertisements on endpapers for the Hamaseiho and the Crescent restaurants and other ads within. Printed by Seiko-sha Co. Ltd. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size stapled illustrated softcover wraps. A little edge tips wear to covers; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Japan Times, Ltd. Paperback books
195021606Japan: Artist Published 1950. Group includes two country landscape scenes in color both signed lower left in black ink both approx. 9" x 13"; with 2 ink and wash heightened and accented with white paint winter scenes approx. 10" x 14 1/2" one signed lower right; and 2 ink washes waterside scenes 10" x 14 1/4" one signed lower left. Not dated and circa 1950s; all are laid-down on to paper backers. Light wear; one of the wash pieces with a thin line-scrape; the paper backers with wear and wrinkling in margins creasing couple short tears. The artworks are in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Artist Published Paperback books
191044085Kobe: Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi N.d. ca 1910. Oblong octavo 18cm x 26cm. Original silk-covered boards bouond with red silk cord; 19 colored collotype plates. Gift inscription from an N.L. Thacker on verso of title page dated 1914; child's ownership inscription on verso of final plate "Ermy Tharp Novato Cal" dated 1936. Rubbing and wear to board edges; internally clean and sound - a Very Good copy with all plates present. An attractive Meiji Era souvenir album with subtly hand-tinted collotype plates depicting a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony. One of several editions produced between 1906 and 1920; per the excellent bibliography of Tamamura's souvenir albums at ours would appear to be the Third Edition of 1910. Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi unknown books
197223967Japan: Otosaburo Moriizumi 1972. 10 rubbings made by Otosaburo Moriizumi; these are printed in black and white on fine thin Japanese paper; each rubbing tipped-on by its corners to a thin cardstock backer and with a dark blue gray or green stiff paper "window" surround; with a 4-sided folding explanatory sheet text in Japanese & English including a brief introduction by Shoji Hamada; with an illustration of Mr. Moriizumi biographical details and information on the rubbings; the author-collector "chose ten lovely carvings found in the Matsumoto district" for this selection; images and titles in Japanese of the images with the dates of creation if known these from 1695 - 1870 - the undated images from earlier times; and with the sizes of the original carvings in cm.; from the author's text: ".We often find a group of three or four naive stone-carved images at the village borders and crossings when we travel along olden ways of Shinano Province. It became popular among farmers to make this sort of stone images from the middle Edo period based on their belief. They prayed for fertility and prosperity by erecting such images representing Buddhist Shinto and folkloric deities. Among them the most prevalent is Dosojin a pair of male and female folkloric gods. They were considered to be patron gods for children and young couples and gods who brought the peace of the village and abundance of crops.Besides these independent images there are stone carvings known as koshin tower. .the relief of Blue-headed Kongo a Buddhist deity as the main image and that of the sun and moon above."; all items loosely contained in a blue paper-covered hardcover folding portfolio with paper title label printed in two colors; the overall size is approx. 15" x 19 3/4"; the art of varying sizes some taking the entire sheet some smaller; the portfolio contained in the original protective cardboard slipcase also with paper title label; some edgewear age-darkening and closed tears to cardstock slipcase; blue portfolio with light wear a few cover scratches; text portion with a little edge-creasing; one of the rubbing plates with a ¾" paper flaw or rub in the background paper; two of the green paper surrounding 'window' mounts with sunning to gold on the inner ½" of the border; the artwork in very good condition; an interesting Japanese folk-art collection iconic imagery. First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good. Otosaburo Moriizumi Hardcover books
199124636Yokohama Japan: Yokohama Archives of History 1991. 59 pages. Color and black and white illustrated a catalog of an exhibition held at the Yokohama Archives of History. Giving history early Japan travel and exploration writing artworks and photography. Text in Japanese. Inscribed and signed by YAH archivist Hisako to Bob Greene with thanks - laid in is a list of the items which had been part of the exhibition that are part of the Paul C. Blum collection held at YAH; Greene was Blum's nephew and instrumental in establishing the collection at Yokohama. Approx. 9 1/2" x 9 7/8" size oblong format illustrated & printed polished paper covers. Light wear in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Yokohama Archives of History Paperback books
191521786Japan: No Publisher 1915. Including: The Tsuragaoka-torii Kamakura Protected officially; The Daibutsu the grand Buddha; The Shariden at the Engakuji Temple; The volume of pictures explaining the origin of the Taemano-mandara; The statue of Buddha in his sermon; The statue of Shaka Buddha the chief object of worship at the Gokarakuji temple; The Arai-No Emma; The Statue of Hojo Tokiyori; The Idol of the Jizoson boddhisattva; The portrait of the boddhisattva Kokoozo painted by Kose Kanaoka; The statue of Uyesugi Shigefusa; The Mask of Aku; all noted as 'protected officially'; text in Japanese and English; final leaf with additional and untranslated Japanese text; approx. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" size with the mounting edges the group slightly larger in its packet; original gray and black paper covers side sewn with red silk cording; wear soiling corner chip to bottom corner of front cover; cards clean postally unused and in very good condition; interesting ephemeral travel and cultural information from the early part of 20th century Japan. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. No Publisher Paperback books
26128Japan In two volumes. The large illustrated volume with hundreds of photographic examples of tea and rice bowls with a text volume accompanying; thoroughly illustrated in black and white and with a few color examples Japanese text throughout. A heavy set approx. 6 lbs with the shipping. Approx. 8 3/4" x 12" size; bound in gray-blue silk patterned cloth over paper side bound in silk string; illustration volume with paper cover title label pasted-down. Some edge tips wear to the cloth of the binding loose folds around cloth edges; contents clean and in very good condition; an extensive reference. . Brocade Covers. Good. paperback books
23566Japan Two volumes; 255 266 pages; color black and white illustrations some folding showing Japanese swords and sword-making techniques blacksmithing various sword furniture tsuba sheaths decorative work portraits of famous makers; text entirely in Japanese; part of a larger set; these are volumes numbered 6 & 7; approximately 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" size; bound in light gray cloth gilt cover titles with blindstamped design of swordsmith at anvil; black spine titles; purple silk page-markers; a little wear and ageing to the cloth faint old discoloration on one unobtrusive; contents clean and bound very well in very good condition and a good reference to the ancient techniques & craft of sword-making in Japan. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
181954848Washington D.C.: Army Air Forces. 10-18- 1943. Color poster / map 47 x 35 1/2 inches 120 x 90 cm folding as issued now professionally mounted on linen backing. Wear and a little paper loss along the fold lines has been infilled light toning to lower centrefold; the poster presents very well with bright color. Stunning image of a hemispherical view with Japan at the centre encompassing the area from Iran in the west Australia in the south and as far as the west coast of the U.S. at the east of the map. The map maker is F.E. Manning one of the distinguished news illustrators of the war in a style very similar to that of Richard Edes Harrison. There is a scale along the lower edge which was intended to be clipped and used to measure distances of places on the map from Tokyo. Text reads: "This map is a photographic view of the world with the center at Tokyo. Thus with the detachable scale distances can be measured along any line running thru Tokyo. It should be noted that an inch at the center represents less mileage than an inch closer to the edges. The detachable scale has been designed to compensate for this and should be used only with the center at Tokyo. The photographic process used in making this map makes all distances measured with the tape approximate only. Distances are shown in statute miles. Lines between key cities do not represent regular air routes in all cases. They show distances between points that do not fall on a line going thru the center of the projection." The Newsmap posters were displayed in offices and factories to keep the American public updated with news of the war and to encourage their participation in the winning of it. . Army Air Forces. unknown books
