New York: Hobart Co, 1904. Read More about In Beautiful Japan. A Story of Bamboo Lands

np: nd. RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR. Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) made the first attempt to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Biddle, a distinguished naval officer from Philadelphia, and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, set out from New York with two warships, the..... Read More about Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle

[Boston]: Privately Printed for the Family and Friends of W. K. Bixby [Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press], [December], 1921. Limited to 60 copies. Daughter's copy–“a small edition.” Not In Bibliography. Inscribed by Bixby to his daughter and her husband “Emma & Albert. For family use only, a...... Read More about Note-Book of a Journey to Japan, Korea and China 1919

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1933. First. Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (1892-1970), a British army officer, lived in Japan in the early 1930s, and was considered by Westerners at that time to be a preeminent source of knowledge on the area, proving to be erroneous on whether the Japanese were..... Read More about A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire

Paris: Larousse, c1920. Read More about Le Japon Illustré

[c. 1850]. Read More about Decorative scene of a ceremonial horse race, entitled "Horse,", ink and colors, ,...

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. First Edition. Fine modern binding. An important, first-hand account of an Englishman of his visits to Japan over a period of time in the 1860s. This books remains in print. Read More about Gleanings from Japan

[New York: [Privately printed by the De Vinne Press], 1887. Inscribed, Privately Printed. Privately printed account of a world tour by a wealthy family in 1875-76, liberally illustrated with beautiful photographs. The author travelled through China, Japan, Siam, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain.The flyleaf..... Read More about Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters

[Japan: 1934]. Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan. Gehrig barnstormed around Japan in 1934, joined by Babe Ruth, his manager Connie Mack and a dozen other players. Gehrig brought his wife Eleanor, intending the trip to be the first leg of their delayed honeymoon. Gehrig and Ruth..... Read More about Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script to Lou Gehrig, from "the Children of...

Leiden: Deventer and Groningen, bij D. Du Mortier en Zoon, 1810. [But Edo; Kaei 1 (1848)]. The scarce first syntax of the Dutch language printed in Japan, here with the woodcut text in italic freehand. Genpo was a well known Dutch scholar who introduced Dutch learning to Japan, this printed..... Read More about Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduithe Taal, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot nut van 't...

New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First edition. Read More about Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks. Japanese Feats of Attack and Defence in Personal Encounter

Philadelphia: The Johns C. Winston Co. The International Press, [1902]. First edition. Read More about Japan and Her People