Japanese Views and Characters.
by [ALBUM OF JAPANESE HANDCOLOURED VIEWS]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
Kobe.: Takagi Photo Co.. (Circa1919).. 50 hand coloured full page collotypes printed on thick paper showing beautiful Japanese sights, scenery and people involved in activities, each plate captioned in English, all edges gilt, padded patterned silk over boards with tassle ties presented in a wrap around cloth covered case with toggle ties. Endpapers a little foxed with some occasional foxing on plates and cloth case. A good copy. 17.7 x 25cm.
Inscribed to the President Messrs John Edmondson & Co Pty. Ltd. With the Compliments of the Goshi Kaisha Mato Denki Shokai, Kobe Japan. John Edmondson & Co were suppliers of beaver and moleskin to the Victorian Government in the 1920s and it seems likely from this inscription were doing business with Japan during this period. .
Inscribed to the President Messrs John Edmondson & Co Pty. Ltd. With the Compliments of the Goshi Kaisha Mato Denki Shokai, Kobe Japan. John Edmondson & Co were suppliers of beaver and moleskin to the Victorian Government in the 1920s and it seems likely from this inscription were doing business with Japan during this period. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 164917
- Title
- Japanese Views and Characters.
- Author
- [ALBUM OF JAPANESE HANDCOLOURED VIEWS]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Takagi Photo Co.
- Place of Publication
- Kobe.
- Date Published
- (Circa1919).
- Keywords
- East Asia, Japan, Photography, zz_Gallery_Antiquarian, zz_ListOn_eBay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan_Collectable;
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About the Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...