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	[JAPANESE ALBUM]. [JAPAN]. Album with 39 watercolours made by Japanese schoolchildren for their English teacher. Kyoto ca 1910. Size: 15 x 24 cm. 39 charming watercolous signed by the pupils. The illustrations depict traditional Japanese motives taken from ancient tales, a few sceneries, etc. Tied together with a silk thread within covers. Front cover with watercolour illustration (maybe by the teacher ?), titled: "Japanese Pictures. 3rd Year A.". € (euro) 750.00 [Appr.: US$ 1115.25 \| £UK 669.25 \| JP¥ 99240] Book number: 39018 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	[DE BECKER, JOSEPH ERNEST]: The Nightless City, or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku", by an English Student of Sociology. Yokohama, Z.P. Maruya & Co. Ltd., 1899. Pp. (vi), iv, (2), 441, (3), xix, (3). With 20 plates including 9 coloured, of which 7 folding beautiful chromolithographs, and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, tooled in gilt, spine slightly faded, new endpapered. Occasionally some light staining. First edition of this informative work about the Geisha quarters in Tokyo. The author, De Becker, an English lawyer came to Japan in 1887. He assumed Japanese nationality after a few years and in 1894 he set up a legal practice in Yokohama. After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 he moved his practice to Kobe where he lived until his death. This controversial work describes the Yoshiwara Yukwaku and its organization, manners and ceremonies as well as its legal constraints and medical aspects. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341. € (euro) 1200.00 [Appr.: US$ 1784.4 \| £UK 1070.5 \| JP¥ 158784] Book number: 35111 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	[BERGENSTIERNA (BERG), JOHAN OLOFSSON] / ALCINIO, ABRAHAM: Christeligh lijk-predijkan... tå hans kongl. may:tz wår allernådigste konungz ch herres troomans ammirals och ammiralitetz rådz then edle och wälborne herres H. Johan Bärgenstiernas ... döde lekamen medh wederbörlig heder och prydnad obersammastädes des wardt begrafwen. Stockholm, Niclas Wankijff, 1678. 4to. Pp. 44. Boards covered with nice yellow 19th century English paper. Minor marginal repairs to last two leaves. This work contains the sermon and personalia of Johan Olofsson Berg (ennobled Bergenstierna) who was the first Swede known to have visit Japan. In the service of the Dutch East India Company, employed as a midshipman, he visited Java, Siam, and Japan in 1647. He stayed at Langezak (Nagasaki) during the period August 8th to October 17th that same year. Warmholtz 7691. € (euro) 1500.00 [Appr.: US$ 2230.5 \| £UK 1338.25 \| JP¥ 198480] Book number: 26010 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	ASTON, WILLIAM GEORGE: A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language. London & Yokohama 1877. Pp. (viii), xii, 212, iv, lxx, viii, (2). Publisher's cloth. Copy of Bernhard Karlgren, renowned Swedish sinologist. Stamp of the East Asiatic Museum (Östastiatiska Museet) on title. Second edition, much enlarged and almost rewritten (first 1872). Aston (1841-1911) was one of the major British Japanologists active in Japan in the 19th century. Cordier BJ 598. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 743.5 \| £UK 446.25 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 99796 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BABA, TATUI: An elementary grammar of the Japanese language, with easy progressive exercises. London, Trübner & Co., 1873. Pp. (ii), x, 92. Original cloth, rubbed and spine chipped. With old signature and annotations throughout. First edition of a beginner's guide to Japanese. Cf Cordier BJ (1904 ed). € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 297.4 \| £UK 178.5 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 38027 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BATCHELOR, REV. JOHN: The Ainu of Japan. The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1892. Pp. 336. With frontispiece and 79 photographic illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial acqua cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed. First edition. This is Batchelor's first work on the Ainu, the natives living in the northern island of Hokkaido (Japan). Cordier BJ 619. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2275. € (euro) 800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1189.6 \| £UK 713.75 \| JP¥ 105856] Book number: 99628 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BATCHELOR, JOHN: The Pit-Dwellers of Hokkaido and Ainu Place-Names Considered. Sapporo 1925. Pp. (iv), 48. Original limp cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A scarce title about the Ainu. Comprises two parts; "The Koropok-Guru or Pit-Dwellers of North Japan" and "A Critical Examination of the Nomenclature of Yezo". The latter part lists 600 place names giving their Japanese pronunciation and the Ainu form followed by the derivation and meaning of the word. Nipponalia (1974) 2277. € (euro) 340.00 [Appr.: US$ 505.58 \| £UK 303.5 \| JP¥ 44989] Book number: 99822 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BATCHELOR, REV. JOHN: Sea-Girt Yezo. Glimpses at Missionary Work in North Japan. London, Church Missionary Society, 1902. Small 4to. Pp. viii, 120. With frontispiece and many illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's red cloth with an Ainu fisher man blocked in gilt on the upper cover, g.e., some wear to extremities, small tear at lower joint. First edition of a scarce title about the Ainu mainly written for young people. John Batchelor (1854-1944) was a British Anglican missionary who spent most of his life in northern Japan and became the most well-known western scholar working with the Ainu. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2278. € (euro) 850.00 [Appr.: US$ 1263.95 \| £UK 758.25 \| JP¥ 112472] Book number: 99755 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	VON BENYOWSZKY (BENIOWSKY) , MAURITZ AUGUST: Lefnadslopp och resor, af honom sielf beskrefne. Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens Tryckeriet, 1791. Pp. (xvi), 415. Modern boards. Some minor staining. An abridged Swedish version of "The Memoirs and Travels" translated by S. Ödmann, based on a German edition in 1791. This narrative is about an Hungarian noble man's exile in Kamchatka and his travels to Japan, Formosa, China and Madagascar. Alt-Japan katalog 184. Cf Cordier BJ 453. € (euro) 240.00 [Appr.: US$ 356.88 \| £UK 214.25 \| JP¥ 31757] Book number: 15 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BILDT, DIDRIK: Japonica. Bilder av japanska föremål och upplysningar därom. Stockholm 1914. Small folio. Pp. (ii), x, 502. With coloured frontispiece and 92 plates, of which 11 are coloured. Publisher's cloth decorated in gilt. First edition which was limited to 200 copies, of which this is nr. 167. This is a description of a collection of 285 different Japanese pieces of art such as; vases, tsuba, paintings, fukusa, kakemono, etc. Includes detailed descriptions of each item and its connection with Japanese culture and customs in general. The collection was brought back to Sweden by Didrik Bildt who visited Japan in 1902. Many of the items were presented at the Japanese exhibition in Stockholm in 1911. € (euro) 650.00 [Appr.: US$ 966.55 \| £UK 580 \| JP¥ 86008] Book number: 99587 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BOTVED, A.P.: Köbenhavn - Tokio - Köpenhavn. Copenhagen, Gyldendals Forlagstrykkeri, 1926. Large 8vo. 157, (3). With many illustrations from photographs in the text. Contemporary or slightly later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. A travel account by Botved, a Danish military pilot, of his adventurous flight in a Fokker C.V. from Copenhagen to Tokyo and back. The journey took 10 weeks and went via Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Hanoi, Canton, Peking, Osaka to Tokyo and the return via Irkutsk, Ornsk and Moscow. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 267.66 \| £UK 160.75 \| JP¥ 23818] Book number: 99450 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BOUSQUET, GEORGES: Japan i våra dagar. Stockholm 1882. Pp. (ii), viii, 620. With many textual illustrations. Original pictorial red cloth richly gilt, spine faded. Bookplate. A Swedish edition of "Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l'Extrème-Orient" (Paris 1877), translated by Anton Stuxberg. Bousquet lived in Japan between 1872 and 1874. One chapter is devoted to the Ainu. Cf Cordier BJ 632. Cf Nipponalia, Kyoto University, 1053. € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 297.4 \| £UK 178.5 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 99730 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BRINKLEY, FRANK: Gogakuhitori annai [English self taught]. Three volumes. Tokyo, Nisshûa-sha, 1875. Pp. vi, 352; (iv), 271; (iv), 349, (1) blank, index xxix. With parallel text in English and Japanese. Original printed wrappers. Contains: 1. Vocabularies listing the character, the English equivalent, the pronunciation and the Katana character; 2. Sentences in Japanese with the English translation. Captain Frank Brinkley (1841-1912) came to Japan in 1867 as commander of a unit of the Royal Artillery stationed in Yokohama. In 1876 he became professor of mathematics at the Tokyo Imperial College of Engineering. He also became proprietor and editor of the English-language newspaper the 'Japan Mail'. He wrote a numerous number of books related to Japanese studies, its history and language. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Tokyo 1965) 2650. Not in Cordier. € (euro) 3000.00 [Appr.: US$ 4461 \| £UK 2676.25 \| JP¥ 396960] Book number: 20002 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	NIAN CHANG [NIEN TCH'ANG]: Fo tsou li tai t'ong tsai. [In Japanese: Busso rekidai tsusai]. 18 volumes. Kyoto 1649. Complete in 18 volumes. With text in Japanese printed on double leaves folded in the oriental manner. As issued in original paper wrappers with title labels. Some wear and stain to covers. One volume has damage to front cover (slight loss of title label) and first 12 leaves torn with only marginal loss. A Japanese edition of a Chinese historical biography of Buddhist patriarchs. € (euro) 2000.00 [Appr.: US$ 2974 \| £UK 1784.25 \| JP¥ 264640] Book number: 35178 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DE CREBILLON (DE CRÉBILLON), C.-P. J.: L'écumoire, ou Tanzai et Néadarné, histoire japonoise. Maestricht 1779. Pp. (viii), 325. Sewn as issued. Uncut copy in original boards, worn. St.o.t. Internally a nice copy. € (euro) 190.00 [Appr.: US$ 282.53 \| £UK 169.5 \| JP¥ 25141] Book number: 14240 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	ESTRADE, C.: Etoffes de soie du Japon. Paris, Henri Ernst, (about 1920). Folio. Pp. (vi) comprising title, introduction and tables des planches. With 38 loose sheets with colour illustrations of 138 specimens of Japanese silk designs pasted in. Original thick board folder, spine of decorated cotton, title label on upper cover. The samples are taken from textiles kept at Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Musée des Arts Décoratifs et Musée des Tissues de Lyon. € (euro) 580.00 [Appr.: US$ 862.46 \| £UK 517.5 \| JP¥ 76746] Book number: 99857 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	[JAPAN]. PASIO FRANCESCO: Tre lettere annue del Giappone de gli anni 1603, 1604, 1605, e parte del 1606. Mandate dal P. Francesco Pasio v. prouinciale di quelle parti al M.R.P. Claudio Acquauiua generale della Compagni di Giesu. Milano, Appresso Pietro Martire Locarni, 1609. Small 8vo. Pp. 313, table (25). Contemporary vellum, recased with new endpapers. Outer margin of first three leaves nicely restored without any loss of text. Old ownership inscription on title. Second edition, first was published in Rome 1608. This work comprises three Jesuit letters sent from Japan: 1. Matteo Couros dated Nangasachi October 6, 1603; 2. Gio Rodriquez Gion dated Nangasachi November 23, 1604 and ; 3. G. R. Gion written 1605 or beginning of 1606. Cordier BJ 251. De Backer-Sommervogel vi, 328. Leon Pages, Bibl. Japonaise, 108. € (euro) 4800.00 [Appr.: US$ 7137.6 \| £UK 4281.75 \| JP¥ 635136] Book number: 99272 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FRASER, MARY CRAWFORD (MRS. HUGH): Letters from Japan. A record of modern life in the island empire. Two volumes. New York & London, The Macmillan Co., 1899. Pp. xxii, 394; xiv, 387. With numerous illustrations, of which many full page. Publisher's red cloth, decorated in gilt with cranes and carps on upper covers, spines darkened. Upper edges gilt, otherwise uncut. Some minor staining to volume two's upper cover. First edition. Mary Fraser was married to a British diplomat and they lived in Tokyo for three years. Cordier BJ 660. Nipponalia 2021. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 446.1 \| £UK 267.75 \| JP¥ 39696] Book number: 99136 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FUJIKAWA, YU: Geschichte der Medizin in Japan. Kurzgefasste Darstellung der Entwicklung der Japanischen Medizin mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Einführung der europäischen Heilkunde in Japan. Tokyo 1911. Pp (ii), 2, (2), 115, (3). With 4 plates including one portrait of C.P. Thunberg (copy of a copperplate by Shuyen Kondo in Nagoya in 1828) and many textual illustrations, mainly portraits of Japanese doctors and physicians. Original boards, cloth spine. A chronology of ancient and medieval medicine in Japan. Includes a good bibliography of Japanese medical works. Published by Kaiserlich-Japanischen Unterrichtsministerium. Garrison-Morton 6404.1. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 446.1 \| £UK 267.75 \| JP¥ 39696] Book number: 16006 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FUKUBA, TORU [EXHIBITION CATALOGUE]: Katalog öfver Fukuba's kollektion af ett hundra Ukiyo-ye-målningar. Stockholm, Bröderna Lagerström, 1911. Pp. xvii, (1) + 46 pages with illustrations (from photographs). Sewn as issued. Original decorated wrappers. A catalogue of a collection of genre pictures by the most famous artists representing the Ukiyo-ye school, exhibited under the name of Toru Fukuba at the Museum of Decorative Art in London in 1910. Some of the artists represented are Issho, Utamaro, Eizan, Kunisada, Hokusai and Hiroshige. The owner of the collection was Yojro Kuwabara. Includes a preface by him. Translated from the English by Gerda Fromell. Cf Cordier BJ 660 (French ed.). € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 297.4 \| £UK 178.5 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 14115 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GILLIS, I.V. & PING-CH'I, PAI: Japanese surnames. Peking 1939. Folio. Pp. (ii), 8, 11, (1), 174, 5, 8, 172, 4, (20). The Japanese surnames are transliterated into letters of the English alphabet (romaji). Original blue cloth, shaken. First edition. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 267.66 \| £UK 160.75 \| JP¥ 23818] Book number: 28007 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GISLÉN, TORSTEN: The Crinoids from Dr. S. Bock's Expedition to Japan 1914. Uppsala 1922. 4to. Pp. (ii), 184. With 2 plates and 162 illustrations in the text. Uncut copy in printed wrappers. With stamp (Royal Library in Stockholm). An investigation of the interesting material of 53 different species and varities of crinoids brought back by Dr. Sixten Bock's Japanese expedition in 1914. Presented to the Royal Society of Science at Upsala in November 1921. ("Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis Ser. iv. vol. 5. No. 6"). € (euro) 140.00 [Appr.: US$ 208.18 \| £UK 125 \| JP¥ 18525] Book number: 16047 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HARTSHORNE, ANNA C.: Japan and her people. Two volumes. Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. Pp. x, 377; vi, 374. With one folding map and 50 beautiful plates, photogravures by Gilbo & Co. Publisher's decorated cloth with gilt cranes on upper covers, gilted upper edges. Bookplate. Some minor foxing and volume two slightly shaken. First edition of an informative guide of Japan. The author travelled to Yokohama, Tokyo, Karuisawa, Nikko, Hokkaido, Hakone, Atami, Nagoya, Ise, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Nagasaki, Kagoshima and she also visited Formosa. € (euro) 400.00 [Appr.: US$ 594.8 \| £UK 357 \| JP¥ 52928] Book number: 99043 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEINE, PETER BERNHARD WILHELM: Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk under Commande von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856, unter Zuzuehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Two volumes (of three). Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1858 & 1859. Large 8vo. Pp. xx, 330 with one large folding map (in two parts) and 9 engraved plates; viii, 392 with 3 maps (on 2 leaves) and 8 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine printed in gilt. Bookplate (Carl Jedvard Bonde). Copy of Ericsberg. Wilhelm Heine (1827-55) was the artist on Perry's expedition to Japan. First edition of the German translation of the report of the Rodgers Expedition sent by the US government to China, Japan and Okhotsk. A third volume or supplement was published in 1859 and is not present here. Uncut and partly unopened copy. Cordier BJ 516. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 743.5 \| £UK 446.25 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 99709 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS: A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary. Fourth edition. Tokyo, Z.P. Mauya & Co., 1888. Large 8vo. Pp. (ii), xxxiv, 962, (1). Modern half calf. Bookplate. Fourth edition, improved and enlarged.( First 1867). The dictionary is arrranged phonetically according to the Roman alphabet, followed by the pronunciation in Katakana and the Chinese characters. With the exception of Medhurst's small vocabulary issued at Batavia in 1830, Hepburn's work was the first true Japanese - English dictionary to be sold in Japan. Hepburn (1815-1911), an American medical missionary, arrived in Japan in 1859 and stayed there for 33 years. As from the third edition (1887) of this dictionary he used a revived form of Japanese romanization called the "Hepburn romanization". Cordier BJ 591. Nipponalia 804. € (euro) 860.00 [Appr.: US$ 1278.82 \| £UK 767.25 \| JP¥ 113795] Book number: 99458 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.

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	[JAPANESE ALBUM]. [JAPAN]. Album with 39 watercolours made by Japanese schoolchildren for their English teacher. Kyoto ca 1910. Size: 15 x 24 cm. 39 charming watercolous signed by the pupils. The illustrations depict traditional Japanese motives taken from ancient tales, a few sceneries, etc. Tied together with a silk thread within covers. Front cover with watercolour illustration (maybe by the teacher ?), titled: "Japanese Pictures. 3rd Year A.". € (euro) 750.00 [Appr.: US$ 1115.25 \| £UK 669.25 \| JP¥ 99240] Book number: 39018 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	[DE BECKER, JOSEPH ERNEST]: The Nightless City, or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku", by an English Student of Sociology. Yokohama, Z.P. Maruya & Co. Ltd., 1899. Pp. (vi), iv, (2), 441, (3), xix, (3). With 20 plates including 9 coloured, of which 7 folding beautiful chromolithographs, and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, tooled in gilt, spine slightly faded, new endpapered. Occasionally some light staining. First edition of this informative work about the Geisha quarters in Tokyo. The author, De Becker, an English lawyer came to Japan in 1887. He assumed Japanese nationality after a few years and in 1894 he set up a legal practice in Yokohama. After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 he moved his practice to Kobe where he lived until his death. This controversial work describes the Yoshiwara Yukwaku and its organization, manners and ceremonies as well as its legal constraints and medical aspects. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341. € (euro) 1200.00 [Appr.: US$ 1784.4 \| £UK 1070.5 \| JP¥ 158784] Book number: 35111 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	[BERGENSTIERNA (BERG), JOHAN OLOFSSON] / ALCINIO, ABRAHAM: Christeligh lijk-predijkan... tå hans kongl. may:tz wår allernådigste konungz ch herres troomans ammirals och ammiralitetz rådz then edle och wälborne herres H. Johan Bärgenstiernas ... döde lekamen medh wederbörlig heder och prydnad obersammastädes des wardt begrafwen. Stockholm, Niclas Wankijff, 1678. 4to. Pp. 44. Boards covered with nice yellow 19th century English paper. Minor marginal repairs to last two leaves. This work contains the sermon and personalia of Johan Olofsson Berg (ennobled Bergenstierna) who was the first Swede known to have visit Japan. In the service of the Dutch East India Company, employed as a midshipman, he visited Java, Siam, and Japan in 1647. He stayed at Langezak (Nagasaki) during the period August 8th to October 17th that same year. Warmholtz 7691. € (euro) 1500.00 [Appr.: US$ 2230.5 \| £UK 1338.25 \| JP¥ 198480] Book number: 26010 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	ASTON, WILLIAM GEORGE: A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language. London & Yokohama 1877. Pp. (viii), xii, 212, iv, lxx, viii, (2). Publisher's cloth. Copy of Bernhard Karlgren, renowned Swedish sinologist. Stamp of the East Asiatic Museum (Östastiatiska Museet) on title. Second edition, much enlarged and almost rewritten (first 1872). Aston (1841-1911) was one of the major British Japanologists active in Japan in the 19th century. Cordier BJ 598. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 743.5 \| £UK 446.25 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 99796 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BABA, TATUI: An elementary grammar of the Japanese language, with easy progressive exercises. London, Trübner & Co., 1873. Pp. (ii), x, 92. Original cloth, rubbed and spine chipped. With old signature and annotations throughout. First edition of a beginner's guide to Japanese. Cf Cordier BJ (1904 ed). € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 297.4 \| £UK 178.5 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 38027 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BATCHELOR, REV. JOHN: The Ainu of Japan. The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1892. Pp. 336. With frontispiece and 79 photographic illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial acqua cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed. First edition. This is Batchelor's first work on the Ainu, the natives living in the northern island of Hokkaido (Japan). Cordier BJ 619. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2275. € (euro) 800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1189.6 \| £UK 713.75 \| JP¥ 105856] Book number: 99628 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BATCHELOR, JOHN: The Pit-Dwellers of Hokkaido and Ainu Place-Names Considered. Sapporo 1925. Pp. (iv), 48. Original limp cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A scarce title about the Ainu. Comprises two parts; "The Koropok-Guru or Pit-Dwellers of North Japan" and "A Critical Examination of the Nomenclature of Yezo". The latter part lists 600 place names giving their Japanese pronunciation and the Ainu form followed by the derivation and meaning of the word. Nipponalia (1974) 2277. € (euro) 340.00 [Appr.: US$ 505.58 \| £UK 303.5 \| JP¥ 44989] Book number: 99822 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BATCHELOR, REV. JOHN: Sea-Girt Yezo. Glimpses at Missionary Work in North Japan. London, Church Missionary Society, 1902. Small 4to. Pp. viii, 120. With frontispiece and many illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's red cloth with an Ainu fisher man blocked in gilt on the upper cover, g.e., some wear to extremities, small tear at lower joint. First edition of a scarce title about the Ainu mainly written for young people. John Batchelor (1854-1944) was a British Anglican missionary who spent most of his life in northern Japan and became the most well-known western scholar working with the Ainu. Nipponalia (Kyoto 1972) 2278. € (euro) 850.00 [Appr.: US$ 1263.95 \| £UK 758.25 \| JP¥ 112472] Book number: 99755 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	VON BENYOWSZKY (BENIOWSKY) , MAURITZ AUGUST: Lefnadslopp och resor, af honom sielf beskrefne. Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens Tryckeriet, 1791. Pp. (xvi), 415. Modern boards. Some minor staining. An abridged Swedish version of "The Memoirs and Travels" translated by S. Ödmann, based on a German edition in 1791. This narrative is about an Hungarian noble man's exile in Kamchatka and his travels to Japan, Formosa, China and Madagascar. Alt-Japan katalog 184. Cf Cordier BJ 453. € (euro) 240.00 [Appr.: US$ 356.88 \| £UK 214.25 \| JP¥ 31757] Book number: 15 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BILDT, DIDRIK: Japonica. Bilder av japanska föremål och upplysningar därom. Stockholm 1914. Small folio. Pp. (ii), x, 502. With coloured frontispiece and 92 plates, of which 11 are coloured. Publisher's cloth decorated in gilt. First edition which was limited to 200 copies, of which this is nr. 167. This is a description of a collection of 285 different Japanese pieces of art such as; vases, tsuba, paintings, fukusa, kakemono, etc. Includes detailed descriptions of each item and its connection with Japanese culture and customs in general. The collection was brought back to Sweden by Didrik Bildt who visited Japan in 1902. Many of the items were presented at the Japanese exhibition in Stockholm in 1911. € (euro) 650.00 [Appr.: US$ 966.55 \| £UK 580 \| JP¥ 86008] Book number: 99587 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BOTVED, A.P.: Köbenhavn - Tokio - Köpenhavn. Copenhagen, Gyldendals Forlagstrykkeri, 1926. Large 8vo. 157, (3). With many illustrations from photographs in the text. Contemporary or slightly later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. A travel account by Botved, a Danish military pilot, of his adventurous flight in a Fokker C.V. from Copenhagen to Tokyo and back. The journey took 10 weeks and went via Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Hanoi, Canton, Peking, Osaka to Tokyo and the return via Irkutsk, Ornsk and Moscow. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 267.66 \| £UK 160.75 \| JP¥ 23818] Book number: 99450 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BOUSQUET, GEORGES: Japan i våra dagar. Stockholm 1882. Pp. (ii), viii, 620. With many textual illustrations. Original pictorial red cloth richly gilt, spine faded. Bookplate. A Swedish edition of "Le Japon de nos jours et les échelles de l'Extrème-Orient" (Paris 1877), translated by Anton Stuxberg. Bousquet lived in Japan between 1872 and 1874. One chapter is devoted to the Ainu. Cf Cordier BJ 632. Cf Nipponalia, Kyoto University, 1053. € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 297.4 \| £UK 178.5 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 99730 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BRINKLEY, FRANK: Gogakuhitori annai [English self taught]. Three volumes. Tokyo, Nisshûa-sha, 1875. Pp. vi, 352; (iv), 271; (iv), 349, (1) blank, index xxix. With parallel text in English and Japanese. Original printed wrappers. Contains: 1. Vocabularies listing the character, the English equivalent, the pronunciation and the Katana character; 2. Sentences in Japanese with the English translation. Captain Frank Brinkley (1841-1912) came to Japan in 1867 as commander of a unit of the Royal Artillery stationed in Yokohama. In 1876 he became professor of mathematics at the Tokyo Imperial College of Engineering. He also became proprietor and editor of the English-language newspaper the 'Japan Mail'. He wrote a numerous number of books related to Japanese studies, its history and language. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Tokyo 1965) 2650. Not in Cordier. € (euro) 3000.00 [Appr.: US$ 4461 \| £UK 2676.25 \| JP¥ 396960] Book number: 20002 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	NIAN CHANG [NIEN TCH'ANG]: Fo tsou li tai t'ong tsai. [In Japanese: Busso rekidai tsusai]. 18 volumes. Kyoto 1649. Complete in 18 volumes. With text in Japanese printed on double leaves folded in the oriental manner. As issued in original paper wrappers with title labels. Some wear and stain to covers. One volume has damage to front cover (slight loss of title label) and first 12 leaves torn with only marginal loss. A Japanese edition of a Chinese historical biography of Buddhist patriarchs. € (euro) 2000.00 [Appr.: US$ 2974 \| £UK 1784.25 \| JP¥ 264640] Book number: 35178 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DE CREBILLON (DE CRÉBILLON), C.-P. J.: L'écumoire, ou Tanzai et Néadarné, histoire japonoise. Maestricht 1779. Pp. (viii), 325. Sewn as issued. Uncut copy in original boards, worn. St.o.t. Internally a nice copy. € (euro) 190.00 [Appr.: US$ 282.53 \| £UK 169.5 \| JP¥ 25141] Book number: 14240 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	ESTRADE, C.: Etoffes de soie du Japon. Paris, Henri Ernst, (about 1920). Folio. Pp. (vi) comprising title, introduction and tables des planches. With 38 loose sheets with colour illustrations of 138 specimens of Japanese silk designs pasted in. Original thick board folder, spine of decorated cotton, title label on upper cover. The samples are taken from textiles kept at Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Musée des Arts Décoratifs et Musée des Tissues de Lyon. € (euro) 580.00 [Appr.: US$ 862.46 \| £UK 517.5 \| JP¥ 76746] Book number: 99857 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	[JAPAN]. PASIO FRANCESCO: Tre lettere annue del Giappone de gli anni 1603, 1604, 1605, e parte del 1606. Mandate dal P. Francesco Pasio v. prouinciale di quelle parti al M.R.P. Claudio Acquauiua generale della Compagni di Giesu. Milano, Appresso Pietro Martire Locarni, 1609. Small 8vo. Pp. 313, table (25). Contemporary vellum, recased with new endpapers. Outer margin of first three leaves nicely restored without any loss of text. Old ownership inscription on title. Second edition, first was published in Rome 1608. This work comprises three Jesuit letters sent from Japan: 1. Matteo Couros dated Nangasachi October 6, 1603; 2. Gio Rodriquez Gion dated Nangasachi November 23, 1604 and ; 3. G. R. Gion written 1605 or beginning of 1606. Cordier BJ 251. De Backer-Sommervogel vi, 328. Leon Pages, Bibl. Japonaise, 108. € (euro) 4800.00 [Appr.: US$ 7137.6 \| £UK 4281.75 \| JP¥ 635136] Book number: 99272 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FRASER, MARY CRAWFORD (MRS. HUGH): Letters from Japan. A record of modern life in the island empire. Two volumes. New York & London, The Macmillan Co., 1899. Pp. xxii, 394; xiv, 387. With numerous illustrations, of which many full page. Publisher's red cloth, decorated in gilt with cranes and carps on upper covers, spines darkened. Upper edges gilt, otherwise uncut. Some minor staining to volume two's upper cover. First edition. Mary Fraser was married to a British diplomat and they lived in Tokyo for three years. Cordier BJ 660. Nipponalia 2021. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 446.1 \| £UK 267.75 \| JP¥ 39696] Book number: 99136 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FUJIKAWA, YU: Geschichte der Medizin in Japan. Kurzgefasste Darstellung der Entwicklung der Japanischen Medizin mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Einführung der europäischen Heilkunde in Japan. Tokyo 1911. Pp (ii), 2, (2), 115, (3). With 4 plates including one portrait of C.P. Thunberg (copy of a copperplate by Shuyen Kondo in Nagoya in 1828) and many textual illustrations, mainly portraits of Japanese doctors and physicians. Original boards, cloth spine. A chronology of ancient and medieval medicine in Japan. Includes a good bibliography of Japanese medical works. Published by Kaiserlich-Japanischen Unterrichtsministerium. Garrison-Morton 6404.1. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 446.1 \| £UK 267.75 \| JP¥ 39696] Book number: 16006 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FUKUBA, TORU [EXHIBITION CATALOGUE]: Katalog öfver Fukuba's kollektion af ett hundra Ukiyo-ye-målningar. Stockholm, Bröderna Lagerström, 1911. Pp. xvii, (1) + 46 pages with illustrations (from photographs). Sewn as issued. Original decorated wrappers. A catalogue of a collection of genre pictures by the most famous artists representing the Ukiyo-ye school, exhibited under the name of Toru Fukuba at the Museum of Decorative Art in London in 1910. Some of the artists represented are Issho, Utamaro, Eizan, Kunisada, Hokusai and Hiroshige. The owner of the collection was Yojro Kuwabara. Includes a preface by him. Translated from the English by Gerda Fromell. Cf Cordier BJ 660 (French ed.). € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 297.4 \| £UK 178.5 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 14115 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GILLIS, I.V. & PING-CH'I, PAI: Japanese surnames. Peking 1939. Folio. Pp. (ii), 8, 11, (1), 174, 5, 8, 172, 4, (20). The Japanese surnames are transliterated into letters of the English alphabet (romaji). Original blue cloth, shaken. First edition. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 267.66 \| £UK 160.75 \| JP¥ 23818] Book number: 28007 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GISLÉN, TORSTEN: The Crinoids from Dr. S. Bock's Expedition to Japan 1914. Uppsala 1922. 4to. Pp. (ii), 184. With 2 plates and 162 illustrations in the text. Uncut copy in printed wrappers. With stamp (Royal Library in Stockholm). An investigation of the interesting material of 53 different species and varities of crinoids brought back by Dr. Sixten Bock's Japanese expedition in 1914. Presented to the Royal Society of Science at Upsala in November 1921. ("Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis Ser. iv. vol. 5. No. 6"). € (euro) 140.00 [Appr.: US$ 208.18 \| £UK 125 \| JP¥ 18525] Book number: 16047 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HARTSHORNE, ANNA C.: Japan and her people. Two volumes. Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. Pp. x, 377; vi, 374. With one folding map and 50 beautiful plates, photogravures by Gilbo & Co. Publisher's decorated cloth with gilt cranes on upper covers, gilted upper edges. Bookplate. Some minor foxing and volume two slightly shaken. First edition of an informative guide of Japan. The author travelled to Yokohama, Tokyo, Karuisawa, Nikko, Hokkaido, Hakone, Atami, Nagoya, Ise, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Nagasaki, Kagoshima and she also visited Formosa. € (euro) 400.00 [Appr.: US$ 594.8 \| £UK 357 \| JP¥ 52928] Book number: 99043 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEINE, PETER BERNHARD WILHELM: Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk under Commande von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856, unter Zuzuehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Two volumes (of three). Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1858 & 1859. Large 8vo. Pp. xx, 330 with one large folding map (in two parts) and 9 engraved plates; viii, 392 with 3 maps (on 2 leaves) and 8 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine printed in gilt. Bookplate (Carl Jedvard Bonde). Copy of Ericsberg. Wilhelm Heine (1827-55) was the artist on Perry's expedition to Japan. First edition of the German translation of the report of the Rodgers Expedition sent by the US government to China, Japan and Okhotsk. A third volume or supplement was published in 1859 and is not present here. Uncut and partly unopened copy. Cordier BJ 516. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 743.5 \| £UK 446.25 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 99709 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS: A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary. Fourth edition. Tokyo, Z.P. Mauya & Co., 1888. Large 8vo. Pp. (ii), xxxiv, 962, (1). Modern half calf. Bookplate. Fourth edition, improved and enlarged.( First 1867). The dictionary is arrranged phonetically according to the Roman alphabet, followed by the pronunciation in Katakana and the Chinese characters. With the exception of Medhurst's small vocabulary issued at Batavia in 1830, Hepburn's work was the first true Japanese - English dictionary to be sold in Japan. Hepburn (1815-1911), an American medical missionary, arrived in Japan in 1859 and stayed there for 33 years. As from the third edition (1887) of this dictionary he used a revived form of Japanese romanization called the "Hepburn romanization". Cordier BJ 591. Nipponalia 804. € (euro) 860.00 [Appr.: US$ 1278.82 \| £UK 767.25 \| JP¥ 113795] Book number: 99458 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.