Shanghai: North China Herald, 1902-1905. First Edition. Volumes I - IV. Small 4to. Various paginations. Illustrated throughout with colored images, frontispiece with tissue guards, folding plates, drawings, fold-out map of Pootoo, "China's Sacred Island." Previous owner name "Lucy Ayers Pitman" and dated Nov. 27, 1915. Mrs. Pitman was the wife..... More
Tokyo: The Nation's Friend Publishing Co., 1897. First Edition. Octavo; 540-638pp , photographs, illustrations plus ads. Good only (very fragile, spine mostly perished and splitting, library stamps) in tan wrappers. Volume II., Number 11, Whole No. 22 November 20th, 1987. Frontis photo of Baron Nishi and Mr. Hamao. Issue features..... More
Kyoto: City Office, 1928. First Edition. Small 8vo. 211 pp. 69 black & white photo-illustrations (full-page and in-text). Fold-out color map of Kyoto; 3 full-page color maps. Purple limp cloth with yapped edges; gilt illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine; AEG; illustrated endpapers; housed in publisher's cardboard..... More
[Japan?]: [publisher not identified], 1913. Oblong 8vo (7 1/4 x 10 1/4"). 230 pp. (including 6 pages text in Japanes). 20 examples of Japanese crests, or mon, per page for a total of over 4,000 examples. Bound in blue-grey cloth, Japanese four-hole stab binding; paper title label to front cover..... More
Darmstadt: Metz & Lautz, ca. 1900. Leporello album (5" x 8 1/2"). Tipped into album is a color panorama map of Mosel in 8 sections (unfolded to 8 x 35 1/2"). The image depicts the Mosel region from Trier to Coblenz along the Rhein River surrounded by a variety of..... More
Lima: Instituto Indigenista Peruano, 1952-1954. Softcover. Octavo, 257 pages, 264 pages, 185 pages and 288 pages. Volume II Numbers 5 & 6, Volume III Numbers 7 & 8, Volume IV Numbers 10 & 11 and Volume V Number 13. More
London: Punch Office and Bradbury & Evans, 1847-[1852]. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. (xii)320pp; (xii)304pp; (xii)308pp. 30 color steel engravings and 338 woodcuts by John Leech. Half-titles (The Comic History of England in red; The Comic History of Rome in black) and title pages in red and black, with vignette. Contemporary full..... More
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xvi, 199 pages. More
[Cambridge MA]: Harvard University Press, 1951. First Edition. Quarto; 31pp. A Very Good copy in publisher's pale green stapled wrappers. 'A list of 248 characters which are generally regarded in Japan as kokuji.' (foreword) An offprint from Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies Volume V: A Grammar of Formal Written Japanese by W.P...... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. First Edition. 8vo. xii, 329 pp. 16 illustrated plates by E.F. Ward. Black cloth with gilt lettering in striking wraparound color illustrated dust jacket. Engraved bookplate for Monsignor Joseph M. Gleason (1869-1942), a Californian Catholic priest, educationalist, historian and collector of books and photographs. A...... More
Sydney, New South Wales: McCarron, Stewart & Co., 1921. Early printing. 8vo. xlii, 536, xlii-xliv pp. Illustrations; business advertisements; large folding map at rear. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; original color printed wrappers bound in. Front hinge cracked; short tape repair to left edge of map; a very..... More
Tehran: 1978. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, (vii), 447 pp. Institute for International Political and Economic Studies. INSCRIBED in Arabic on title page with note in Arabic laid in. More
London: Printed for J. and. P. Knapton, 1743. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv, 411 pp. Publisher's advertisement at rear. Full brown calf with 5 raised bands & gilt ruling to spine. A good copy (front board detached; ffep taped at hinge to front board; some wear to extremities; minor ink notations..... More
Lens, France: Hauchard, n.d. Edition not known. Paperback. 35 real-photo post cards depicting the devastation from World War II bombing of Lens, France during the period June 16 - August 11, 1944. A fine set, no writing. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with..... More
Paris: Lemiere, 1867. Paperback. 29" x 28" Folding linen backed color map (4 x 6 sections) showing the city of Paris and environs in the mid-to-late 19th century, A fine copy of an uncommon map. Tableau Chronologique des Principales Foires qui se Tiennent aux Environs de Paris. Details provide listing..... More
Paris: Welter, 1898. 1st. Paperback. First Edition octavos; xlviii, 242pp. Spine of V. 1 largely gone o/w Very good copies (many unopened pages) from the library of noted Middle Eastern scholar James Heywourth-Dunne with his bookplate to front cover of each volume. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year -..... More
Paris: Societe de l'Histoire des Colonies Francaises, 1927. Reprint. Paperback. Octavo; 407-430pp. Offprint extract from Revue de l'histoire des Colonies Francaises XX (1927). Original wrappers pasted in larger paper wrappers w/J. Heyworth-Dunne Ex Libris plate to front wrapper. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, [2], 3-339pp. Navy ribbed cloth with white lettering in cream photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy (a few small spots to upper page edges) in very good dust jacket (water marks to rear cover and lower spine; wear to extremities; darkening to..... More
Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, Ld. 1903. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; (xii), 816pp. Index. Photograph (2 1/2" x 4") of Chinese outdoor merchants tipped to loose sheet of paper, laid in. A Very Good copy in yellow cloth with hanging lantern illustration to front board, which is lettered..... More
London; Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1893. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; (iv), 4, 497, xiv pp. Index. A Very Good to Near Fine copy in black cloth lettered in gold; 'Kelly and Walsh Booksellers & Stationers' sticker to front pastedown. Ball was considered the most capable and..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1956. Sixth Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 275pp. Index. Color printed wraps in very good condition (light soiling; minor wear to extremities). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880. Original cloth. A new edition. 8vo. viii, 421pp. Black & white frontispiece illustrative portrait of Richard Harris Barham. Red cloth covered boards; blind stamped border illustrations; gilt titles to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate; bookseller sticker; minor shelf wear at top and bottom of..... More
England: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 150 pp. Bibliography. Ilustrations. Fine condition. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 275pp. Bibliography; Index. Fine in near-fine dust jacket (minor wear to extremities; price-clipped). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 416pp, [2]pp. Black & white illustrations; 3 maps. Green cloth covered boards; original illustrated dust jacket. Book in near fine condition in very good dustjacket (wear, short closed tears & chipping to extremities; light soiling & rubbing to..... More