Far-East from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

London, Bombay & Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1933]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 310, [1]. frontis. & multiple illus. on 15 double-sided plates. folding map. cloth (scuffed, library pocket & 2 rubberstams). dola2776

Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1813-19. First Edition of this monumental work, the first printed dictionary from Chinese into a Western language. It was commissioned in 1809 by Napoleon I, who entrusted the task of preparing the work to French merchant-trader, ambassador and sinologist Chrétien Louis Joseph de Guignes. De Guignes had spent seventeen years from 1784 to 1801 in… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [2012]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 444, [1]. illus. biblio. index. bds. dw. dola2610

London: John Murray, Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1907. Eighth Edition, Revised and partly rewritten, the first to be issued following the Russo-Japanese War. 12mo. pp. [2]ads, ix, [1], 570, [1] + 32(ads). with half-title. 30 maps & plans (most in colour & many folding or double-page (incl. large map of Japan in… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1903. Seventh Revised Edition. 12mo. pp. ix, [1], 586, [1] + 68(ads). with half-title. 28 maps & plans (most in colour & many folding or double-page (incl. large map of Japan in rear pocket). some other illus. in text. index. original cloth (spine darkened, joints… Read more about this item

New York, Chicago & Toronto: Fleming H. Ravell Company, 1901. First Edition. An important detailed eye-witness account of the Boxer Rebellion written by an American Protestant missionary to China. At the time of publication Smith had served twenty-nine years in the country for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Smith together with 23 other missionaries and… Read more about this item

Miyanoshita, Hakone: Fujiya Hotel, Ltd., [1950]. Ninth Printing of Book I, Sixth Printing of Book II, Second Printing of Book III. 3 Books in 1. 8vo. pp. [20], 591, [1]. profusely illus. patterned cloth. dola2316

Pyongyang: [c2012]. A philatelic history of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from its founding to 2012. The mint and canceled to order unhinged stamps and commemorative sheets dating from c2000 to 2012 are protected loosely in plastic. Included are commemoratives of meetings with Mao and Castro. 4to. pp. [1], 46. text in Korean, Chinese & English. illlus.… Read more about this item

vp: 1900-02. 94 4 x 5-5 1/2" mostly gelatin silver prints mounted in a very worn half-leather album (spine wanting), depicting Vancouver & BC (2), the 'Empress of Japan' and her crew, Hong Kong (incl. images of Sikhs), Shanghai, Yokahama, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Canton, a further 3 of the ship and crew (loose & damaged), a further 26 photos (4… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Published for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai by the Iwanami Shoten, 1940 [i.e. 1948]. Third Impression. 4to. pp. lxxx, 502, [2]. 4 maps (1 folding). index. cloth. dw. (dw. with very slight wear to edges & spine darkened). Very good copy. dola1067

[Tokyo:] Hokuseido, [1949-52]. First Editions. 4 Volumes: Vol. I. Eastern Culture; Vol. II. Spring; Vol. III. Summer-Autumn; Vol. IV: Autumn-Winter. 12mo. pp. 3 p.l., xviii; 2 p.l., [v], 382; 2 p.l., xv, 443; 2 p.l., [xliii], [1 leaf], 396. folding chart. 65 plates. illus. on endleaves. tissue guards with legends. cloth. dws. A very good set. dola1046

Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Latines, [1950]. First Edition. A remarkable rarity in flawless condition of an extremely fragile book due to acidic paper. A virulent anti-Communist manifesto against the Vietnamese Communist Party and its armed wing, anticipating the bloody civil war that ensued and the defeat of French imperialism, which led to the US militarist intervention into the internal… Read more about this item

Shanghai: 1991. folio. text in Mandarin Chinese. profusely illus. gilt-stamped cloth. dw. Very good copy in worn paper slipcase (short tear to head of dw.). dola966

Shanghai: People's Publishing House, 1991. ISBN 9787208010963. folio. text in Mandarin Chinese. profusely illus. gilt-stamped cloth. dw. Very good in worn bd. slipcase (some edges taped). dola939

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1921. First Edition. Account by the English plant hunter and rock and alpine gardener of his two-year expedition with Kew-trained plant collector William Purdom to Tibet and the province of Kansu in north-west China in 1914-15. Farrer brought back to England many new plants gathered during his expeditions including the 'Geranium ferreri', named… Read more about this item

London: Edward Arnold, 1906-07. First Edition, Third Impression of Vol. I, First Edition, First Impression of Vol. II. Hamilton saw active service in the First and Second Boer Wars, on the Nile expedition of 1884-85, in Burma, India and Afghanistan, and in 1915 was given command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in the… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Printed By The Shiuyei Sha; Published By Kelly And Walsh Limited, Yokohama, Shangai, Hongkong, And Singapore, 1899. Second Edition of the first book in English on ikebana, the Japanese art of floral arrangement. British architect Josiah Conder came to Japan as a foreign advisor to the Japanese government and taught at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo.… Read more about this item

Innsbruck: Kommissionsverlag Wagner'Sche Univ.-Buchdruckerei, [1947]. First Edition of this anthropological study of the Akha and Miao tribes, based on the author's travels in Burma, Thailand and French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) in 1936-37. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 258, iv; 4 p.l., 259-568, v-x. folding table, coloured map, 2 coloured plates & 40 double-sided b/w plates. numerous text… Read more about this item

Tokyo: T.Hasegawa & Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1892. First Edition. Hasegawa Takejirõ was a leading publisher during the Meiji period of colour woodblock illustrated books in European languages on Japanese subjects, and often used foreign residents as translators. His publications were intended for export, the tourist trade, and the foreign residents in Japan. The present song relates the… Read more about this item

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1901. First Edition. The author spent sixty-four years from 1877 to 1941 as an Anglican missionary to the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan settled on the northern island of Hokkaido. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., ix-xxvi, [604]. title in red & black. 137 text illus. (some full-page) from photos & sketches by the author.… Read more about this item