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Kotto : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs [front cover].
This first edition contains a selection of Japanese legends and stories, including nine tales from old Japanese books to illustrate some strange beliefs. Hearn adds: 'They are only curios.'
Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan [front cover].
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn reinvented himself. He was known as Patrick in his native Ireland, Lafcadio in America, and Yakumo Koizumi in Japan. He wrote 11 substantial books about his adopted country. On arrival he was given useful advice: 'Do not fail…
Japan, an attempt at interpretation [front cover].
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan. Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese [Setsu Koizumi], taking the name Yakumo Koizumi. His…
Tokohou : [the story of Prince Tokugawa the fifteenth].
In 1867, the last shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned and the Emperor, Mutsuhito, regained the position of actual head of government. Mutsuhito took the name Meiji ('enlightened government') to designate his reign and this became his imperial…
View in the Eastern side of the Imperial Park at Gehol.
"The Emperor having been informed that, in the course of our travels in China we had shown a strong desire of seeing every thing curious and interesting, was pleased to give directions to the first minister to shew us his park or garden at Gehol. It…
Textile patterns.
This book contains 64 colourful printed textile patterns produced by the Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa, who flourished c. 1893-1905. The pages are double folded in the Japanese style. Kyoka zuan is one of the important collections of textile…
Settling debts at a merchants house.
A typical scene at a merchant's house during the year-end when all outstanding bills must be settled. One clerk works the abacus, another weighs the silver and a third makes entries in the ledger. Three tradesmen have arrived to present their final…
Illustration from The Circle of Chalk.
"Mrs Chang: My lord, the matter is settled. since I have accepted your gifts, my daughter is yours. You may take her away at once. And you my child, you know that it is not I who send you forth from the shelter of my arms. For now you have been…
Momotaro.
Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated…
The Silk Cord Makers.
"The figures represented ... are engaged in manufacturing silk-twist by a very different mode to that adopted by Europeans. Their machinery is not horizontal, but vertical. The threads are extended round a truncated cone. The females who twist…
Life in the Chinese Royal Household [01].
A rare 1880s illustration on pith-paper of a scene in the Chinese Royal household.
Regni chinensis descriptio [front cover].
In 1611, the Flemish Jesuit missionary Nicolas Trigault reached Peking (Beijing), one year after the death of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the founder of the Jesuit mission in China. On his return to Rome, Trigault translated Ricci's memoirs into Latin…
The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1,…
The Shogun's audience.
A. Is the throne or Audience-seat of his majesty, where he shows himself to his Princes and Nobles.
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
Boudoir and Bed-chamber of a Lady of rank.
"Less crowded with articles of furniture than the apartments of ladies of quality in England, the decorations of a bedchamber and boudoir in China are not less costly or complete - a suite of rooms being appropriated to the females of the mandarin's…
Camps and trails in China [front cover].
Roy Andrews (1884-1960) was an explorer, and long-time curator and director of the American Museum of Natural History. His Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-17 was written up in his "Camps and Trails in China". The pagoda on the cover is found at…
Playing at Shuttlecock with the feet.
"Near to the afflux of the Tchang-ho with the Cha-ho, river of floodgates, or imperial canal, is a splendid octagonal pagoda : it consists of nine stories, adorned with projecting eves, and it tapers with a remarkably gradual and graceful…
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China [front cover].
In 1844, Evariste Régis Huc (1813-1860), a French Lazarist missionary, was ordered to explore the area surrounding the mission at Si-Wang (Hsi-wan-tse), about 200 kilometres to the northwest of Peking (Beijing). He and his companion, Joseph Gabet,…
Roma al tempo di Benedetto XIV la pianta di Roma.
1 map in 12 sections ; 139 x 166 cm., sections each 35 x 56 cm. + explanatory book (35 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
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Reprint of 1748 map.
Title from explanatory book.
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Reprint of 1748 map.
Title from explanatory book.
Pianta di Roma del 1676
1 map in 12 sections ; 148 x 145 cm., sections each 37 x 48 cm. + explanatory book (10 p. ; 43 cm.)
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…
Pianta di Roma del 1625
1 map in 12 sections ; 79 x 150 cm., sections each 25 x 37 cm. + explanatory book (31 p. ; 38 cm.)
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In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1625
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In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1625
Recens prout hodie iacet almae vrbis Romae cum omnibus viis aedificiisque prospectus acuratissime delineatus
1 map in 12 sections ; 105 x 243 cm., sections each 51 x 40 cm. + explanatory book (12 p. ; 44 cm.)
Facsimile reprint on 1606 ed.
On case title: La pianta di Roma del 1606 (1593).
Facsimile reprint on 1606 ed.
On case title: La pianta di Roma del 1606 (1593).
Nova vrbis Romae descriptio Antonius Lafrerij
1 map in 12 sections ; 90 x 101 cm., sections each 28 x 36 cm. + explanatory book (70 p. ; 40 cm.)
Roma al tempo di Guilio III : la pianta di Roma di Leonardo Bufalini del 1551
1 map in 24 sections + explanatory book (61 p.) ; in case.