Hardcover. Near fine. 11.75" x 9.5" accordion-fold album with 12 color woodblock prints mounted to thick cardstock leaves (one side only), each measuring 8.25" x 7" and signed by the artist, who we have not identified. Each print shows one or two Gosho Ningyo -- traditional Japanese dolls often gifted..... (Item #24444)

Very good. Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album..... (Item #20997)

Softcover. Very good. Softcover student notebook, 8.25 x 6 inches, containing 51 b/w photographs (2.5" x 3.5") mounted on graph paper leaves, most with handwritten captions in Vietnamese. Dated 1972 on the front cover (with additional handwritten titles or notes we have been unable to decipher). Two items stapled together..... (Item #22673)

London: T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix, [3], 632, with 8 plates (including frontispiece), five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers, original red spine label preserved, three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue..... (Item #15505)

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 444 pp + publisher's ads, with 96 illustrations, including color frontispiece. Original red cloth binding decorated in black and gilt, with top edge gilt. Spine a bit dulled, minor abrasion to gilt at top edge; still quite an attractive..... (Item #22334)

[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions], [1891]. Softcover. Near fine. Second edition. 18 pp + donation form, in original stapled wrappers. Minor handling wear, else fine. Collection of letters to Rev. Cozad from missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions relating to the organization's work in..... (Item #24314)

London: Gowans & Gray. 15 cm, pp. 42, [6] (publisher's catalogue). Undated, first or early printing (first issued 1911, according to OCLC). Gowan's Inernational Library No. 38 (catalogue at rear lists titles to No. 40). Chipping and a long tear to the delicate dust jacket, internals very good. The author..... (Item #24257)

Madras: Higginbotham and Co., 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Scarce first edition of this important compilation of popular songs (with notes by Gover). 299 pp, in a later binding of three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed, joints cracking, but..... (Item #24347)

Kobe, Japan: Mitsumura Printing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 11 x 14.25 inches, oblong. String-tied decorative cloth boards. Six pages of text, followed by 16 full-page collotype plates and one double-page folding panorama. Light soiling and wear to boards, final leaf with a repair to the margin (not affecting image). National..... (Item #20328)

Nakatsucho, Japan: ca. 1910. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5 x 10.5 in., oblong, in string-tied faux-leather boards. Some edgewear, one tie replaced and one lacking. Very good. Souvenir view book with two pages of text in Japanese, folding map, and 34 half-tone photographic plates captioned in Japanese and English. Located in..... (Item #20624)

Original color woodblock print. Sheet size 18 3/4 x 13 1/2 in., printed area 17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. Mounted with removable tape to cloth covered mat measuring 25 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. Pencil signed at lower right. Undated, but several sources put it at 1921. Very good..... (Item #24431)

Madison, Wis. Mrs. F.H. King, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce first edition of this classic work on traditional sustainable farming techniques. King (1848-1911) was a professor of agricultural physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 1888 to 1902, during which time he made important contributions to the literature..... (Item #24265)

New York: Macmillan, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. "New Illustrated Edition." 7.75" x 5.25". 226 pp + publisher's ads, illustrated. Bound in original white cloth with illustration of rising sun in gilt on front cover. Some staining to front joint, small bump to one corner, previous owner's name and small label..... (Item #24544)