Japan from Asia Bookroom

Yokohama.: Thomas Cook and Son; Box of Curios Press. [circa1914].. Folding coloured map of Japan showing steamship and railway routes picked out in red, 28.5 x 336.2cms, large inset map shows Japan's connections with Korea, Manchuria and North China; tipped into the original blue card title-wrappers, small professionally sealed tear to a lower margin (no loss), early owner's neat inked… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

(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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

[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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item