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Civan, Roi de Bungo, Histoire Japonnaise…
Londres: Jean Nourse, 1758.
Educational use of an imaginary voyage setting
Two volumes, small octavo; a neat set in contemporary calf, flat spines gilt in compartments. Second edition, following a 1754 version by the same publisher. Both works are of some rarity, NUC listing a single copy of the first...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #3006524
Grigri, Histoire véritable…
Nangazaki [Paris]: "Klnporzenkru, L'an du monde 59749" 1749. Two volumes in one, duodecimo, first title lightly stained and with an early ms attribution to 'Cahusac'; in old dark blue paper boards, red leather label. "Last edition" of this charming and rare book which had been suppressed by the authorities in...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #3006527
Moeurs et Coutumes des Peuples…
Paris: Madame Veuve Hocquart, 1811-1814.
An Enlightened look at the peoples of the world: costumes, customs and rituals
Two volumes, quarto, with 144 handcoloured plates; a very large copy, completely uncut, in a handsome contemporary binding of half crimson roan, flat spines banded and lettered in gilt. Lavishly illustrated study...
Price (AUD):
$15,500.00
Ref: #4403259
![Bankoku-Tokai Nendai-Ki… [A Chronicle of Foreign Relations]. DESHIMA, KARITSU-GAISHI](/pictures/thumb/2903140_01.jpg?v=1566359491)
Bankoku-Tokai Nendai-Ki… [A Chronicle of Foreign Relations].
N.p. (Japan): 1854.
A Dutch ship in Nagasaki
Stitch sewn booklet measuring 149 x 79 mm., with two fine coloured woodblock prints, one double-page; original stitched wrappers, original cloth folding case; now preserved in a quarter morocco box. Charming Japanese publication, with two fine coloured woodcuts, one a double-page view...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #2903140
Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten.
Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.
The exotic East and West Indies: in monastic pigskin binding
Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin.....
Price (AUD):
$19,850.00
Ref: #4012339
Japan and the Japanese…
London: Colburn, 1853.
Classic account of Japan
Two volumes, octavo; a very good, largely uncut and partly unopened copy in original green blind-stamped cloth. The Russian explorer's classic account of Japan, first published in 1817 and still a fascinating primary resource in the 1850s, one of the most valuable works...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #2907425
Voyage Philosophique au Japon, ou Conférences Anglo-Franco-Bataves.
"Pressure" (Paris?): Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi, 1788.
A visit to Japan
Octavo, half-title, woodcut vignette of a ship setting sail at start of text; neat modern quarter calf. First edition: a very scarce anonymous imaginary voyage and a satirical commentary on French politics and society which has decadent...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #3005361
Carte des Costes de l'Asie sur l'Ocean contenant les Bancs Isles et Costes &c…
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, circa 1700.
Dutch seventeenth century map of the Australian coast
Engraved map, 565 x 860 mm (map size); contemporary hand-colouring, framed. First issue of Mortier's important and highly attractive large format Dutch map depicting the "coasts of Asia" and including a good and substantial early depiction of...
Price (AUD):
$6,750.00
Ref: #4504986
Domestic Japan. Illustrated descriptions of articles used in Japanese daily life. First volume - kitchen utensils. [All published]…
printed by the Yokohama Seishi Bunsha, 1895.
For the English market
Booklet of eight leaves folded in the Japanese manner within original colour illustrated wrappers with silk ties, 165 x 236 mm., featuring a double page plate of a domestic scene, with additional illustrations of 76 wares. A rare English-language...
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #4010228
General Charte von Australien…
Weimar: Geographical Institute, 1804.
Large Weimar map of Australasia
Engraved map, handcolour outline, 450 x 610 mm., in fine condition, mounted. Johann Matthias Christoph Reinecke (1768-1818) of Halberstadt and Koburg was the official cartographer to the Geographical Institute in Weimar. His General Charte von Australien was republished five times between...
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3907243
Personal Narrative of a Voyage to Japan…
London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1859. Octavo, with five folding maps and eight lithographic plates including frontispiece, a few maps with old tape repairs and subsequent browning; spine sunned, one corner bumped, a little shaken but good in original deep red decorated cloth with gilt spine. First edition: a detailed...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3912460