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Japan - History:

Murray, David . JAPAN
NY 1906. Story of the Nations. Revised edition continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan and Supplementary chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko, LL.D. Hardcover. Octavo, 455pp., illustrations, two folding maps, cloth. VG. (a22414)
$38.00Kwak, Tae-Hwan and Edward A. Olsen (editors). THE MAJOR POWERS OF NORTHEAST ASIA SEEKING PEACE AND SECURITY
Boulder and London 1996 1st Rienner. Hardcover. Octavo, 261pp., cloth. VG, very light cover soiling, no DJ. (a41257)
$39.00 Bush, Lewis . THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CAPTAIN BROWN
Tokyo 1969 1st Voyagers' Press and Charles Tuttle Company. A chronicle of the sea of the Japan's emergence as a world power. Hardcover. 4to., 168pp., monochrome photo illustrations, attractive coarse-weave bright orange cloth with black spine label. VG in VG DJ, price clipped. (a41930)
$29.00 Baxter, Glen W. (director) . HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE SINOLOGICAL INDEX SERIES NO. 35 COMBINED INDICES TO THIRTY COLLECTIONS OF LIAO, CHIN AND YUAN BIOGRAPHIES
Tokyo 1960 2nd Japan Council. 4to., 208pp., green cloth. VG plus. No ownership marks. (a41965)
$55.00 Baxter, Glen W. (director) . A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORIENTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE JAPANESE PERIODICALS WITH INDICES
Taipei 1966 Authorized reprint. Harvard-Yenching Institute Index No. 13. In Chinese. 4to., about 400pp., wraps. VG, top left corner bumped, spine worn. (a41972)
$70.00 Duran, Leo . TOKIYORI NO SHITSUREN (SACRIFICE D'AMOUR) PIECE HISTORIQUE JAPONAISE EN 5 TABLEAUX
Paris no date (c. 1940) La Renaissance Artistique. Limited to 250 copies. Historical drama of tenth century Kyoto. In French. 12mo., 42pp., color frontis, decorated boards. Signed presentation copy from Duran. VG, light wear. (a42145)
$65.00 Goodman, Grant K. . IMPERIAL JAPAN AND ASIA A REASSESSMENT
NY 1967 Columbia University. Occasional Paper of East Asia Institute. Octavo, 81pp., wraps. Near Fine. (a42854)
$29.00 Muro, Osamu . INTRODUCTION TO JAPAN
1968 first edition. Asian Economic Press. Hardcover. Octavo, 171pp., large foldout Chronology of Japanese History. Fine. no dj. (a43064)
$24.00 Inouye, Junnosuke . PROBLEMS OF THE JAPANESE EXCHANGE 1914-1926
Glasgow 1931 Maclehose. English version by E. H. de Bunsen. 8vo., 263pp., hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a48190)
$24.00 (japan) . SURVEY OF JAPANESE FINANCE AND INDUSTRY - COMPLETE RUN FROM VOLUME 1 No. 1 JUNE 1949 THROUGH VOLUME XXII No. 3 JULY-SEPTEMBER 1970
Tokyo 1949-1970. Journal published quarterly by the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo. Unbroken run of over 110 issues (with a few duplicates.) 6 volumes. 4to, issues with original covers, indices, stiff wraps. Ex- institution library. Good to Good plus. A few issues detached from binding. Scarce. 6 volumes as described. (a52668)
$500.00 Gubbins, J. H. . THE PROGRESS OF JAPAN 1853-1871
Oxford 1911 first edition Clarendon. Hardcover. Scholarly treatment. Octavo, 323pp., foldout map, glossary, green cloth with gilt lettering. Good, inner hinges cracked, no DJ. (a55467)
$90.00 Bohner, Hermann . SEAMI (ZEAMI) SHU-DOSHO KYAKURAI-KWA SCHRIFTEN DER DRITTEN SCHRIFTTUMSPERIODE DES MEISTERS
Tokyo 1961 Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Natur und Vokerkunde Otasiens. In German. Sm.4to., 48pp., wraps. VG. (a57882)
$65.00 (japan) . RESUME STATISTIQUE DE L'EMPIRE DU JAPON
Tokio 1919 Cabinet Imperial Bureau de la Statistique Generale. In French and Japanese. Hardcover. Octavo, 185pp., limp printed blue cloth with gilt lettering. Good plus, light cover wear. Scarce. (a58216)
$95.00Obata, Kyugoro. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LIFE OF VISCOUNT SHIBUSAWA
1939 Tokyo Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 399pp., index, cloth. VG in Good DJ, a few small chips. (a58278)
$27.00Kaempfer, Engelbert 1651-1716; Scheuchzer, John Gaspar 1702-1729). HISTORY OF JAPAN, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THAT EMPIRE; OF ITS TEMPLES, PALACES, CASTLES AND OTHER BUILDINGS; OF ITS METALS, MINERALS, TREES,PLANTS, ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISHES; OF THE CHORONOLOGY AND SUCCESSION OF THE EMPERORS, ECCLESIASTICAL AND SECULAR; OF THE ORIGINAL DESCENT, RELIGIONS, CUSTOMS, AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE NATIVES AND OF THEIR TRADE AND COMMERCE WITH THE DUTCH AND CHINESE. TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM
Kyoto 1929. Originally written in Dutch, translated to English and published in 1727. This is the 1929 reprint by Koseikaku. Limited edition of 150 but this copy is stamped No. 186. 2 volumes in one. Lg.4to., title page in Volume 1: HIstoria Imperii Japanoica, Londini, MDCCXXVII, title page in English in red and black ink, 10pp., LII, 612pp., 75pp., 6pp., 45 plates many of which are foldout or doublepage, full leather with gilt decorated spine and mounted red leather spine label. Near Fine internally (wrinkle on second title page and two small pieces of adhesive tape on initial pages.) Binding is secure but hinges cracked on outside and leather boards worn - leather rubbed off boards edges but boards themselves not too worn. Nice full gilt spine with raised bands. Scarce history of Japan. Overall Near Good. (a60826)
$400.00 Smith, Bradley . JAPAN A HISTORY IN ART
NY 1964 1st (stated, but was preceeded by a limited edition) Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. Lg.4to., 295pp., fully illustrated with strong colorful illustrations, bound in coarsely textured brown cloth with bold gilt lettering in Japanese on front and gilt lettering on spine in English. Inscribed and signed by Bradley Smith. Near Fine, spine lettering slightly worn. In clear glassine DJ. (a61034)
$25.00 Adams, I. William . SHIBUSAWA OR THE PASSING OF OLD JAPAN
NY 1906 first edition Putnam. Historical novel about Japan. Hardcover. Octavo., 284pp., illustrated by E. Dalton Steve, cloth. Good, rear inner hinge cracking, slight staining (almost invisible) on a few pages in margins only, some minor cover wear. (a61297)
$65.00 (fire insurance) . THE TOKIO MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE THE FIRST CENTURY 1879 - 1989
1980 1st Tokio Marine. Hardcover. Octavo, 209pp., appendices, cloth. Inscribed and signed by Miki Kikuchi. Near Fine, slight foxing on fore-edges, in VG DJ. (a62487)
$49.00 Nag, Kalidas . DISCOVERY OF ASIA (signed)
Calcutta 1957 1st Institute of Asian African Relations. Covers China, Japan, Indonesia, IndoChina, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt. Hardcover. 4to., 784pp., 1 color plate, 18 monochrome plates, index, cloth. **Signed by Nag. Good plus, some light wear on cover. in Fair DJ, worn. (a69598)
$42.00Beaujard, Andre. LES NOTES DE CHEVET DE SEI SHONAGON' DAME D'HONNEUR AU PALAIS DE KYOTO
Paris 1934 1st Maisonneuve. Traduction in extenso de l'ancien texte japonais. Avec une preface de M. Adatci. In French. Sm.4to., 329pp., wraps with later paper spine. Good, text toned and lightly worn. (a71582)
$50.00 MacFarlane, Charles . JAPAN: AN ACCOUNT, GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
Hartford 1856 Silas Andreus & Son. Hardcover. Octavo, many engraved illustrations, bound in coarse green cloth with mounted leather spine label. VG, very faint water line in top corner of each page. No ownership marks. (a72842)
$210.00 Nagao, Philip M. . JAPANESE LOCAL HISTORIES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Washington 1988 1st Library of Congress. Hardcover. 4to., 324pp., original printed black buckram. One one light Depository Library stamp and number on front end paper and slight shadow of label on spine. Near Fine. Bibliography of histories of prefectures in Japan. (a75803)
$145.00 Kayamoto, Tojin . HAN TOMBS OF LO-LANG - THEIR STUDIES BY JAPANESE SCHOLARS
Tokyo 1962. Octavo, pp. 97-123, removed from the Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko and rebound in later wraps. Near Fine. (a79598)
$29.00Dore, R. P.. EDUCATION IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN
Berkeley 1965 1st University of California. Hardcover. Octavo, 346pp., illustrated, cloth. A few institution stamps. Good, no dj. (a81614)
$24.00 Penrose, E. F. . FOOD SUPPLY AND RAW MATERIALS IN JAPAN AN INDEX OF THE PHYSICAL VOLUME OF PRODUCTION OF FOODSTUFFS, INDUSTRIAL CROPS, AND MINERALS 1894-1927
Chicago 1930 first edition University of Chicago. Hardcover. Octavo, 75pp., charts, cloth. VG plus, in VG DJ, light wear. (a83248)
$95.00 Kimura, Ihei (photographer) . JAPANESE SCHOOL LIFE THROUGH THE CAMERA
Tokyo July 1937 Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. Ihei Kimura was one Japan's greatest photographers. Text in English, French and German. Small folio, 50 very fine mounted photo illustrations by Ihei Kimura, stiff photo pictorial wraps with the original stiff clear glassine overlay and metal spiral binding. VG, metal spiral just beginning to rust in a few places, slight wear on cover edges. Photos are in Fine condition. Glassine slightly yellowed and lightly rubbed. No ownership marks. Scarce (a84840)
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