[NIKKO GUIDE BOOK - JAPAN].

Nikko-san Manganji Otakaramono Zukai (Illustrated book of the Treasures of Manganji Temple in Mount Nikko). Tokyo, Inoue Mohei, Meiji 29 (1896).

. Size: 12.7 x 18.5 cm. Lvs. 64 folded in the Japanese fashion. Richly illustrated throughout by Oshima Keizaburo. Captions in Japanese and English. Original yellow wrappers, title label on upper cover, resewn, stained. Red Asian stamps. Occasionally some light staining. A fascinating informative guide of Nikko, a small city in Tochigi Prefecture situated in the mountains north of Tokyo. It is devoted to the history of Nikko, its Buddhist temples and the famous Shinto shrine Toshugu (Manganji Temple) established in 1617 as a memorial of Togugawa Ieyasu. It was later renamed Rinnoji temple. Includes many woodcut illustrations of Buddhist paintings, interiors such as offering jars, masks and clothing, musical instruments, furnitures, dining utensils, incense burners, offering bowls, screens, pots, lanterns, etc.

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Book number: 120508

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, guide,

[JAPAN: TWO SALES CATALOGUES FOR SAFES].

Patent Fire & Barglar - Resisting Safes Catalogue Manufactured by Z. Takenouchi. (Tokyo) Meiji 24 (1891).

. Size: 15 x 22 cm. Pp. (20). With many illustrations of varies safes and of the production factory. Original printed wrappers. AND: Patent Fire-Proof Iron Safes. With Patent Lock. Manufactured and Improved by R.K. Kunisuye, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Meiji 27 (1894). Size: 18,5 x 25,5 cm. Pp. (32). With several illustrations of different safes. Original printed wrappers.

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Book number: 100455

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, Japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, safe, safes, commerce, commercial

[PERSIA & JAPAN].

Persian literature. Comprising the Shâh Nâhem, the Rubâi'yât, the Divan and the Gulistan. With a special introduction by Richard J.H. Gottheil, Ph.d. AND: Japanese literature. Including selections from Genji monogatari and classical poetry and drama of Japan. With critical and biographical sketches by Epiphanius Wilson. Revised ed. Two volumes. London & New York, The Colonial Press, 1900.

. Pp. xvi, 410; (ii),125 + iv, 296 pp. First querie of volume one starting to loosen. With 4 plates of fac-similes from interesting rare works. Uncut, crisp copy in publisher's cloth.

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Book number: 15044

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, japan, persian, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature, language, langue

[NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA].

Plan of Passenger Accommodation Motor Ships "Atsuma Maru" & "Tatsuta Maru". The Orient-California Fortnightly Service N.Y.K. Line. Tokyo 1930s.

. Large folding pamphlet presenting two Japanese luxury passenger lines. Text in English. An informative guide about tariffs, the Company's offices and agents, charts of the various deck and social areas together with photographs. Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), today Japan's largest shipping company was founded in 1885. The two ships "Tatsuta Maru" and "Atsuma Maru" were built for NYK's premier trans-pacific Orient-California service which started in 1929.

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Book number: 120871

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, boat, cruise, ship, shipping, exploration, travel, voyage,

[KABUKI].

Programme of Entertainment in Honour of H.I.H. Prince Pu Lun. Given by Baron S. Goto at the Kabukiza on December 11th, 1907. Tokyo 1907.

. Tall 8vo (15 x 22,5 cm). Pp. 28 bound in the fukuro-toji style, and two colour woodcut prints highlighted with gold. Text in English, Japanese and Chinese. Original coloured pictorial wrappers highlighted, silk ties. A very attractive programme of a Kabuki play "The Battle of Yashima". The play was arranged in connection with a visit by Prince Pu Lun, the nephew of the Chinese emperor and heir to the throne at the time. Count Got› Shinpei (1857-1929) was a prominent Japanese statesman and cabinet minister. A rare survival in lovely condition.

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Book number: 120266

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, theatre, theater, travel, exploration, illustration, woodcut, kabuki,

[TURIN WORLD FAIR 1911 / SILK INDUSTRY IN JAPAN]

Résumé historique de l'industrie séricicole au Japon. Publié a l'occasion de l'Exposition de l'Italie par l'Association séricicole du Japon 1911. Tokio, Association séricicole du Japon, No.18 Sanchome Nishikicho Kanda-ku, 1911.

. Oblong 8vo. (25.8 x 18.3 cm). Pp. (36). Printed on good quality paper. Richly illustrated, of which many coloured. Includes a double-folded map of the raw silk production sites. Original wrappers with colour decoration, silk ties. Informative, well-preserved folder of the Japanese silk industry presented at the Turin International World Fair in 1911. Includes information about different silk producers with photos and lovely colour illustrations. One folded leaf with a list of the Japanese silk spinners at the exhibition, loosely inserted as issued.

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Book number: 121220

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, silk, illustrated, soie,

[RENAUDOT, EUSéBE (Transl.)]:

SAVIO, PIETRO: Il Giappone al giorno d'oggi nella sua vita pubblica e privata, politica e commerciale. Viaggio nell'interno dell'isola e nei centri sericoli eseguito nell'anno 1874. Milano, Fratelli Treves, 1876.

. Pp. (vi), 216, (2). With four maps and 31 plates, of which several double page. Text with staining. Cloth, faded. Original front wrapper bound in. Second edition enlarged with plates not found in the first edition (1875).Cavalier Pietro Savio of Alessandria (1838-1904) was a member of the Italian Geographic Society and participated in the first official Italian expedition to Japan in 1869. This was a later expedition which visited Yanagawa, Yonezawa, Aizu-Wakamatzu, Nikko, Tokyo and Yokohama. Savio's vividly account describes the country and its people, their manners and customs. The beautiful plates depict views from the countryside, houses, family scenes, various ceremonies and gatherings. Cordier BJ 604.

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Book number: 100428

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage,

[MIYAJIMA, JAPAN].

A Short Guide to Miyajima and Neighbourhood. Third edition. Hiroshima, Miyajima Hotel, 1918.

. Pp. (ii), 32, (6). With illustrations. Staples, with some rust. Original printed colour wrappers. A charming small guide to Miyajima, a small island in Hiroshima Bay in western Japan. It has been a Shinto holy place for centuries with many ancient shrines and temples. Rare.

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Book number: 120912

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, guide, tourist, itzukushima

[NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA / MENUS].

Six woodblock-printed cruise ship menus for the Nippon Yusen Company]. Harozaki Maru and Taiyo Maru, July and August 1936.

. Six dinner menus wrapped in beautiful decorated paper covers for the two ships Harozaki Maru and Taiyo Maru, ocean liners owned by the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK). Size of covers: ca 13.5 x 19 cm. Text in English. The wrappers are beautifully printed in vivid colours depicting Enryakuji Temple, a Kago (palanquin), Mount Fuji, Kegon Fall, a Maru vessel, and a couple of ducks. The contents of the menus would have been printed on board the ships, only the wrappers being woodblock-printed ashore before departure.

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Book number: 121284

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, shipping, travel, exploration, cruise, cruising, menu,

[JAPANESE TEXTILE SILK SAMPLES].

Some Orimono Hyohon. (Dyed fabric samples). Types no. 6. Nihon Senshohoku Hyohonsha (Japan Fabric Dyeing Sample Co.). Kyoto, 1927 - 35.

. Oblong folio (47.5 x 24.9 cm). Pp. (77). A large-format ledger with 97 samples of Japanese silk for kimonos mounted on thick paper. With printed descriptive Japanese text. Original string binding with blue cloth covers, upper cover with white text. The swatches are dated between 1927 and 1935 so it seems that samples were added year by year as the string binding can be untied and retied.A collection of beautiful coloured silk samples which used to belong to a Japanese manufacturer of high-quality silk. Comprises sixty-three swatches measuring 16.5 x 18.5 cm, twenty-three larger (27.4 x 17.2 cm), five even larger (34 x 24.5 cm) and further six small at the end. Thirteen empty leaves. An impressive well-preserved album with a beautiful collection of stylish textile samples.

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Book number: 120894

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, textile, fabrics, sample, design, kimono, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

[JAPAN - SALES CATALOGUE].

Straw Hats Catalogue. New Fashion 1922. Full Fasihoned (sic) and Hand Tinished (sic). Y. Watanabe & Co., Bakudocho, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo 1922.

. A sales pamphlet comprising 10 pages folded with front cover printed in red and black and with a straw hat illustration. Size 13 x 18.5 cm. Title in English otherwise Japanese text. The catalogue offers various kinds of hats with illustrations and prices. Some minor staining.

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Book number: 120665

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, hat, hats, fashion, design, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, comemrce, sales,

[JESUIT RELATIONS / LE GOBIEN, CHARLES].

The Travels of Several Learned Missioners of the Society of Jesus, into Divers Parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America. Containing a General Description of the Most Remarkable Towns; with a Particular Account of the Customs, Manners, and Religion of Those Several Nations, ... London, Printed for R. Gosling, 1714.

. Pp. (xiv), 336, index (12), adv. (4). With two folding engraved plates. Modern half calf on marbled boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt and with title label. Partly with marginal waterstaining. Foredge chipped and soiled at beginning and end. Some small wormholes, mainly in margin. The first English translation of the Jesuit letters. Comprises 22 letters selected from Father Le Gobien's "Lettres Édifiantes et Curieuses" (volumes 9 & 10, Paris 1711-13). The first ten letters deal with various parts of India, seven letters are devoted to China, two to Canada, one to South America, one to the Philippines, Japan and the Nicobar islands and finally one to Greece. The two plates belong to the letters on China; one of the Ginseng plant and the other of a Chinese inscription (on a plate given to the Jesuits at Peking in 1711). Sabin 40707. De Backer-S. III, 1514.

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Book number: 99391

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, jesuits, asia, asien, asiatic, canada, america, americana, travel, exploration, voyage, travels, india, indian, japan, philippines, nicobar, china, chinese, kina,

[HAIBARA / HANDMADE JAPANESE FANS].

[Two hand-painted round fans (uchiwa) in original woodblock-printed covers]. Tokyo, Haibara Naojiro, ca 1890.

. A beautiful and well-preserved pair of round hand fans painted in ink, colour and gofun on paper with handles of lacquer decorated with gold, and silk tasselled cords. The fans are decorated in rinpa style with a landscape scene and flowers, on the reverse one has a view of Mount Fuji and the other a bamboo scene highlighted with gold. One fan has one small chip at edge and a few tiny paper losses, the other is in fine condition. Size: 23.8 x 23 cm, length including handles 36 cm. Mounted in the original paper folders woodblock-printed in colours.Haibara, established in 1806, is one of Japan's oldest paper merchants and still operating in Nihonbashi in Tokyo. During the Edo period Haibara became famous for the decorated round fans (uchiwa) produced as a typical souvenir at that time. The third owner, Haibara Naojiro (1846-1910), worked close to artists like Shibata Zeshin, Kawanabe Kyosai and Kawabata Gyokusho who created the original designs for Haibara's products. A delightful pair of these handmade fans.

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Book number: 120961

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, fan, fans, handmade, handpainted, uchiwa,

AIKAWA MINWA (ARTIST) / KÍRIN, OGATA:

Tsushin gafu (God's picture). Osaka, Honya Kichibei, Bunsei 2 (1819).

. Pp. 48. Woodblock-printed illustrations in K›rin style, in very good impression. Leaves folded in the Japanese style. Original paper wrappers, title label on upper cover. Binding rubbed. Occasionally some minor staining. First edition. This is a sketch manual with Ogata K›rin pattern as drawn by Aikawa Minwa. Ogata K›rin (1658-1716) was a famous Rinpa artist. The celebrated Rinpa style, a Japanese genre based on nature which originated in the early 17th century had a revival in the beginning of the 19th century. The typical K›rin patterns are characterised by simplified forms with prominent and smooth outlines. Aikawa Minwa, active 1806-21, is probably best known for his Manga hyaku-jo (Sketchbook of One Hundred Women 1814). Scarce. British Museum has a copy of this manual with slightly different title leaf but otherwise identical.

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Book number: 121219

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asiatic, rinpa, illustrated,

ARAI, YOSHIMUNE (Artist) & FLORENZ, KARL (Transl.):

Scènes du théátre japonais. Hiragami-bon. L'école de village (Terakoya). Drame historique en un acte. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, éditeur, 1900.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), vi, 32, 9. Richly illustrated with coloured woodcuts. Leaves double folded in the oriental fashion. Original decorated boards, chipped along edges. Internally fine. First edition published in connection with the Universal Exposition of 1900 at Paris. The first part presents the famous play Terakoya (temple school) comprising 13 different scenes accompanied with lovely colour illustrations. The second part is devoted to Japanese theater settings, stage, musicians and their instruments, stagehands, etc.

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Book number: 120157

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, theater, theatre, teater, illustrated,