Kasaga Shrine Samurai Armor collection
[Nara: c. 1800]. Woodcut book of the samurai armor at the Kasaga Shrine, Nara Prefecture, "A fine illustrated... Read More
Price: $4,000
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The Break-up of China with an Account of its Present Commerce, Currency, Waterways, Armies, Railways, Politics and Future Prospects.
London & New York: Harpers, 1899. Admiral Beresford devotes a chapter XXVIII to his visit to the Japanese boatyards, etc. Read More
Price: $125
![Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle. James Biddle.](/pictures/thumb/301620.jpg?v=1534807192)
RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR
Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle.
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
Price: $750
Inscribed, Privately Printed
Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters.
[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
Price: $425
Letters from Japan. A record of Modern Life in the Island Empire.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. New Edition in One Volume. Written by a British Diplomat's wife who spent 3 years in Japan. Read More
Price: $150
Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan
Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script to Lou Gehrig, from "the Children of Japan"
[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
Price: $2,500
![Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduithe Taal, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot nut van 't Algemeen. Oranda bunten kohen./ Gra Japanese title [Oranda Bunten Kohen Securon]. Mitsukuri Genpo.](/pictures/thumb/305186.jpg?v=1538426820)
Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduithe Taal, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot nut van 't Algemeen. Oranda bunten kohen./ Gra Japanese...
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
Price: $4,500
The Japanese Nation in Evolution.
New York: Crowell, [September, 1907]. First edition. Read More
Price: $50
Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks. Japanese Feats of Attack and Defence in Personal Encounter.
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First edition. Read More
Price: $125
Japan and Her People.
Philadelphia: The Johns C. Winston Co. The International Press, [1902]. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the Years 1852, 1853...
New York: D. Appleton. and Company London: Trübner & Co, 1856. First One Volume Edition. This is an abbreviated version of the 3 volume set, without the scientific data. Read More
Price: $500
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First Trade Edition. Read More
Price: $175
Appreciations of Poetry. Selected and Edited by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916. First Edition. The text is based on the lecture notes kept by Hearn’s students. Read More
Price: $100
Interpretation of Literature. Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915. First Edition. Read More
Price: $150
Japan An Attempt at Interpretation.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition Later Impression (November 1904). Read More
Price: $100
The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Bisland.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First Trade Edition. Read More
Price: $150
William Lyon Phelps’s Copy
Life and Literature by . . . Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917. First Edition. William Lyon Phelps’s Copy. Inscribed to William Lyon Phelps: “To Wm. Lyon Phelps/Christmas 1917/ from Dodd Mead & Co.”. Read More
Price: $150
Occidental Gleanings by...Sketches and Essays Now First Collected by Albert Mordell.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. Read More
Price: $125
"Out of the East" Reveries and Studies in New Japan.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Japan as It Was and Is.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Comp, 1855. Third thousand. Read More
Price: $200
![Japanese Floral Arrangement by Special Arrangement with Professor S. Ohashi of Ikenobo School. [Preface by Shinzo Shirae]. Ikenobo School.](/pictures/thumb/42772.jpg?v=1534804432)
Japanese Floral Arrangement by Special Arrangement with Professor S. Ohashi of Ikenobo School. [Preface by Shinzo Shirae].
New York: Yamanaka & Co., Inc, January 1935. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
Seventh Year; Ninth Year & Eleventh Year: Japan Society to Promote Friendly Relations between The United States and Japan and...
New York: Japan Society, No. 165 Broadway, 1914, 1916 & 1918. Read More
Price: $150