Japan from Asia Bookroom

[Tokyo].: Japanese Government Railways.. 1925.. Large folding colour map, 78.5 x 80 cm, of Japan and Korea, Six inset maps one of which shows Taiwan; tipped into the original green cloth covered case with green ties, the cloth a little faded, decorative title-page and text in 30 panels on the verso, a very good, clean copy. Scarce edition of… Saber más sobre este artículo

[circa1930s].. Japanese woodblock print on fine paper tipped onto thin card 24.3 x 35.8 cms; 29.8 x 40.8 cms (with mount), descriptive text in English and Japanese tipped to the verso, scant foxing mainly affecting the mount, overall very good condition. A finely designed image, richly coloured and embossed, artist's chop at lower right. The text on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris.: Compagnie Des Antilles.. circa1890s.. Tea crate label 16.5 x 22 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured ilustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles, a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very succesful, winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of 1892.… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Tokyo].: Japanese Government Railways.. (Circa1927).. Large folding colour map, 78.5 x 80 cm, of Japan and Korea, 6 inset maps one of which shows Taiwan, scale 1:1,640,000 for Hondo, Shikoku and Kyushu, 1:2340,000 for Chosen; tipped into the original orange cloth covered case with orange ties, text in 31 panels on the verso (one a little age-toned), a few… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia.: American Institute of Mining Engineers. Sherman & Co., printers.. 1878.. Large folding map of Japan showing "some of the more important Mining Districts, Coal Fields etc." (small fold split without loss), tables, 67pp. Covers a little scuffed and discoloured, overall in very good condition. Scarce offprint separately paginated, of a paper included in Volume V of the Transactions of… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Washington).: (A.O.P. Nicholson).. (1856).. Tinted lithograph, 13 x 20.3, 22.4 x 28.8 cm (sheet), crescent-shaped stain (tidemark) affecting the margin upper right , lower edged ragged, but the image in very good condition. From Perry's ''The Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan: performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854...'', by the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Kobe.. (Circa1901).. Two photographic prints 14.3 x 10.3 and 13.1 x 9.4 cms (images) mounted on stamped studio card: 22.5 x 15.8 and 18.5 x 13.3 cms (the smaller a little bumped and stained to a lower corner), faint spotting to one image and some silvering in the other, the larger signed in the image "Arthur, 1901" and the other… Saber más sobre este artículo

Japan.. 1890s. 46 albumen photographs, some handcoloured (34 captioned with studio stock references) approx. 20 x 25.5 cms on 23 gilt-edged leaves in an attractive pictorial lacquer album 27 x 26 cms, spine renewed and hinges professionally secured, some fading and spotting to the images and toning to the margins of the card leaves, lacquer a little chipped, the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Kobe, Japan.: Fuku-In-Kwan.. 1906.. Printed colour folding map on two conjoined sheets, laid down, 73.8 x 105 cms, foxing on verso (not affecting map), single pinhole in each corner, scant spotting, small fold splits (no loss), a few soft fold creases, but in good condition. Very rare striking map of Japan published for the Western market. Created under… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Japan].. (Circa1890s).. 50 hand-tinted albumen prints (30 captioned with studio stock references) mounted on thick gilt-edged card leaves19.5 x 25 cms, in an album 27.5 x 35 cms; elaborately lacquered boards (scuffed and chipped) inlaid with mother of pearl (with loss) over quarter calf (renewed), bevelled edges, gilt dentelles, endpapers gilt-flecked, some fading and spotting to the images and toning… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York.: Army Information Branch.. July 21944.. Full colour poster 88.7 x 119.2 cms of military uniforms, on the recto two maps (of the Marshall Islands and Burma), black and white photographic illustrations and text, folding to a Newsmap 22 x 30 cms, a few fold splits archivally strengthened (without loss), tape residue in the upper corners, light wear and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tokyo.: Nihon-Kenkyusha.. 1935. Large folding colour map of Japan 74.3 x 105 cms; folding into printed card covers 27 x 19.5 cms: 9 insets: Chosen (Korea); Hokkaido; Chisima Islands; General Map of Japan and Manchuokuo; Karafuto (Saghalien); Okinawa (Loochoo); Taiwan (Formosa); Micronesia; Ogasawara; Hajijoshima; the covers a litle worn and marked, and the sheet slightly toned, but the map is… Saber más sobre este artículo

Circa 1908 -2005.. George Caiger (1903-1991): 10 family photographic albums with over 800 black and white photographs, many captioned, dating mainly from the 1920s -1940s, one album with a few earlier images (including two cabinet cards stamped by the W. H. Bursle studio Orange, and large format tinted military portrait signed La Doré, Orange); one manila folder with16 photographs… Saber más sobre este artículo

Kofu.: Onkodo Printing Co.,. circa1930s.. Colour pictorial map, 70.2 x 56 cms; 75.5 x 59.5 cms (sheet), light wear along the inner margin, some soft creases from folding, short split at center fold; in very good, clean condition. An appealing and decorative map of Yamanashi Prefecture, which, while a process print, has the attractive soft look of a lithograph, adorned… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington, D.C.: Army Air Forces.. August 10,1943.. Very large folding colour poster 119.8 x 89 cm, edgewear and small fold splits with no loss to the image, the sheet toned along the folds, but in very good condition. Striking hemispherical view with Japan at the centre, encompassing the area from Iran in the west, Australia in the south, and as… Saber más sobre este artículo

Kyoto.. Late Meiji? [1900?].. Nine mounted studio photographs, the images with some fading and spotting but overall in good condition, the mounts worn and toned a few with occasional spotting: Three (large ensemble groups of women), 21 x 26.5 cms mounted on embossed card, two with the Kyoto studio stamps of Kiyokuan and the other Kobayashi; One (young cadets) 21.8… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tokyo.: Charles E. Tuttle Company.. 1954.. Printed four colour map, 92 x 71cm; 102.5 x 74.5cm (sheet), folding into pictorial wrappers, 25.6 x 19 cms, inset map of the Marounouchi District and on the verso an extensive grid reference in English and Japanese and, over four panels, a map of the streetcar, railway and subway system, scant spotting to… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Japan].. [late19th Century?]. Set of four Japanese woodblock prints of the original series of twelve prints. Approx 26 x 18 cms, preserved in modern window mounts 40.5 x 30.5 cms, images in very good condition. These delightful scenes of children's play were originally depicted by Ishikawa Toyomasa in the mid-18th century as a series of 12 scenes for a year.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Stockholm.: C. E. Fritze's Royal Library. 1901.. 26 pages, 27.7 x 19.3 cms, original green cloth boards, gilt-stamped title, slight toning to the text block, but in very good condition. Scarce work by Swedish physician, veterinarian and zoologist Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg (1820-1908). Kinberg is best know as ship surgeon and zoologist on the Eugenie circumnavigation of 1851-1853, and for… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pan American World Airways.. 1964.. Colour pictographic/pictorial map of Asia 23.2 x 30.1 cms, gilt double-rule border printed on a folding decorative menu card 32 x 50 cms (open), highlighted in gilt, text in English, French and Japanese, central fold, and (later) central vertical crease, in very good condition. Pan Am menu card for First Class passengers dubbed "The President… Saber más sobre este artículo