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Portland 1906. P.M. Stiff wrappers, very good, 609p., 83 b.w & 1 color photos. May 1906, Vol.XV, No.5. S C A R C E This issue is dedicated to Japan and Japanese subjects, with essays: Japanese Views, Spirit of Japan, Color Prints of Japan, JapaneseSentiment After the War,Life Among the People of Japan, The Governor's Visit, Little Brown Man as he is, he Strike, Memories, The Escape, Murphy of the Evil Eye, The Rotting Log, In May Time, John Jones' Duplicity, A Song, Courtship & Marriage Customs of Japan...& other stories and essays on Japan & Japanese customs. .

New York [1972], Weatherhill. Blue cloth, very good, 431p., index, chronology 1853-1972, 73 b.w. photos, written by the staff of the Asahi Newspaper. FIRST EDITION Covers a new generation of Japan experts, Press club,lawyers legal hangers-on & moonlighting lawers, treaty revisions,the birth of women's education, socialism, Yellow Peril, city lights on the Ginza, occupation legacy, postwar diplomacy, America views a new Japan, new rivalry, toward the future. .

[Byseville] 1944, Pure Oil Co. Large folding color map, 127 x 98.5 cm., heavily mended folds, grand size wall map, used showing signs of wear, use, brittle, reinforced, complete. * * OBSCURE FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION SELDOM FOUND * * . *** **** *** . .GRAND WALL MAP GIVING AMERICANS A CLEAR PERSPECTIVE OF . . .THE GEOGRAPHICAL PLACES OF BATTLE AND MILITARY MOVEMENT . . . DURING WORLD WAR II . . * A huge color map, "Giant Size In Global Perspective Includin large-scale detailed maps of Philippine Islands, North China, Japan Southeast Asia. . With special sections: . a. Extent of Japanese penetration of the Pacific Area . b. Key shows Naval bases or anchorage site . c. Air bases . ***A grand view of the Pacific showing territory, & possessions, of warring nations at outbreak of the Pacific hostilities, December 7, 1941. . *** Shows progress and latest advances of allies, cutout flags o nations on right edge & pin or paste distance measure guide. . The key shows rivers, mountains, roads,… Read More

New York [1944], Norton. Blue coth, very clean, solid copy, with dust jacket notes tipped inside the back cover, 218p., index, tables & factual summaries, 9 color plates, 9 region maps, 15 x 22 cm., bright copy. FIRST EDITION The writings of: Robert M. Chapin Jr., Andrey Avinoff, Francis Lee Jaques, Joy Flinsch Buba, Charles Clark, George F. Mason. * With chapter headings: 1. The Ocean 2. The Islands 3. Discovery and Exploration 4. Climates, winds, currents and tides 5. Stars over Melanesia 6. The Native peoples 7. Ocean life 8. Mammals 9. Birds 10. Reptiles, amhibians, and insects 11 Plants. 12. Australia and New Zealand 13. Melanesia: New Guinea, New Britain, The Bismark . Archipleago, The Solomon Islands, The New hebrides, New . Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, the Fimi Islands. . 14. The Netherlands Indies: Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, . Timor, The Lesser Sunda Islands, The Spice Islands . [Moluccas] . 15. The Philippine Islands: Luzon, Cebu, Mindanao, Palawan. 16. Micronesia: The Palau… Read More

[New York] 1936, Inst. Pacific Relations. Brown cloth, very good, 234p., folding map, appendix, 11 tables, co-authors R. Bell, W. Buckisch et al., book plate. This excellent source covers China & Japan in modern times, relations between China & Japan, Manchoukuo, Soviet Siberia, Dutch in the Pacific, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, migrations in the Pacific area, struggle for markets, armaments in the pacific. Valuable pre WW II study. .

New York 1923, Century. Black pictorial cloth, very good, 424p., 24 b.w. photos, appendix, index. bookplate. The poetic author discusses Japan, China, Fiji, & Australia. Book one covers historical and travel material, book two the discussion of native problems, personal and social, book three is a discussion of the political problems involving Australasia, Asia, and America. A color scan of the cover can be sent by email. .

Manila 1956, N.P.Full red cloth, black cover & spine titles, 242p., appendicies, clean, firm and solid copy, dust jacket, 16 x 24 cm..* THE AUTHOR'S DATED & SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO CHARLES O. HOUSTON, JR. * * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . DR. EUGENIO C. QUESADA WAS A GRADUATE OF THE SCHOOL OF . . . PHARMACOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES 1915 . . . A REGISTERED CHEMIST & PHARMACIST, . . . & THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY . * The story of PAETE, a small village high in the Sierra Madre mountains, on the north side of Laguna de Bay, a democratic society. This book records it’s fascinating and unusual traits and reflections of a rural people. . This book is full of stunning historical events, incidents during the Spanish, Japanese & American occupations, loaded with factual stories covering history, sociology, economics, social studies and short stories. . *** Color photos are posted to our website,. . *** AUTHOR'S SIGNED, DATED… Read More

London 1906, Macmillan. Buff cloth, 2 vol. set, very good, 724+855p., indexes, 2 fold-out maps, 5 maps, 282 b.w. photos bibliography, appendix, top edge gilt, neatly rebacked using the old spine layded down, else a nice & clean set. R A R E Co-author Charles O. Blagden. This is a major resource for the ethnology of the area. Vol.1: racial characters and affinities, notes by W. Duckworth on "Fasciculi Malayenses" notes on the diseases of the aborigines. Manners and customs: food, stimulants, narcotics, dress, habitations, hunting, trapping and fishing; modes of barter, weapons and implements, cultivation, arts and crafts, decorative art, social order, dealings with other races. Vol. 2: Birth, maturity, marriage, burial, music, songs, feasts customs and beliefs; natural religion and folk-lore, present state and future prospects, taboo and other other special forms of speech, past history and relation to other languages. A major contribution to the knowledge on these primitive peoples,… Read More

London 1906, Macmillan. Buff cloth, 2 vol. set, very good, 724+855p., indexes, 2 fold-out maps, 5 maps, 282 b.w. photos bibliography, appendix, top edge gilt; vol. 1 small split on spine but mended, otherwise a nice & clean set. R A R E Co-author Charles O. Blagden. This is a major resource for the ethnology of the area. Vol.1: racial characters and affinities, notes by W. Duckworth on "Fasciculi Malayenses" notes on the diseases of the aborigines. Manners and customs: food, stimulants, narcotics, dress, habitations, hunting, trapping and fishing; modes of barter, weapons and implements, cultivation, arts and crafts, decorative art, social order, dealings with other races. Vol. 2: Birth, maturity, marriage, burial, music, songs, feasts customs and beliefs; natural religion and folk-lore, present state and future prospects, taboo and other other special forms of speech, past history and relation to other languages. A major contribution to the knowledge on these primitive peoples, loaded… Read More

London 1929, Hutchinson. Red cloth, 288p., 75 sepia photos, 2 maps, 1 large color folding, 11 text diagrams, very good, bit of usual wear at spine head, else contents very clean & bright,index,17 x 25.5 cm.,solid example. RARE FIRST EDITION . *** **** *** . . AN IMPORTANT PRIMARY RESOURCE & ETHNIC STUDY . . . INTRODUCTION BY ETHNOLOGIST C.G. SELIGMAN . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH 75 FINE SEPIA PHOTOGRAPHS . * THE AUTHOR: Edward Owen Rutter [1889-1944] was an English historian, novelist and travel writer. He served with the North Borneo Civil Service from 1910 to 1915. . * CONTENTS: Chapter headings: From Past to Present, The Distribution of the Pagansk Personal Characteristics, Social Organization, Agriculture, Jungle &River Craft, Arts & Manufactures, Trade & Barter, Pagan Law, Headhunting and War, Beliefs and Ceremonies, Folklore. . With appendices: a. Comparative vocabulary of Murut and Dusun dialects. b. Original versions of urut chants given in the text. With copious… Read More

London 1934, Longman's. Red cloth, very good, worn dj., text clean, 386p., index, many b.w. illustrations by B. Watkins, end paper maps. The author works against the background of a rich & ancient culture in poetic prose the story of a great nation and a continent rather than a country. . A vast panorama from about 3000 B.C. to the establishment of the Republic. A simple, consecutive story covering the important aspects of Chinese civilization, an introductory history of a great people. . A nice beginning in the mythological period, accounts of nomad leaders & of legendary kings...Great reading, the introduction of Buddhism, the Tartars, renaissance unter T'ang, luxury, elegance, Marco Polo, coming of the Europeans, Jesuits, the rise of Peking, Manchu conquest, the wars...down to the war with Japan. .

Shanghai [1921], Watson. Rebound in full black cloth, gold titles, 40p. text + 61p. Mennie b.w. photo gravures,notes by [S. Couling], new end papers, contents very clean & solid, a large size folio 31 x 39 cm. SECOND EDITION . *** **** *** . . A GRAND AND DELUXE EDITION . . . WITH 66 SUPERB PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES . * A grand scale work, DELUXE EDITION, consisting of 66 photographic studies, each tipped-in on a separate page, with elaborate descriptions. . A wonderful set of old photographs of the Old capitol of Peking. Shows the architecture, walls, gates, palaces, shrines, people, monuments & temples. . Each photo is carefully executed and done with the greatest composition & artistic talent. Marvelous record of the city, people, sights and stone architecture of bridges, tall gates &c. . All photos are tipped in, superbly composed images. . *** The first appearance of Donald Mennie's photographs in any book form was in Elizabeth Cooper's: My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, New… Read More

New York 1934, Longman's. Red cloth, very good, 386p., text clean, 386p., index, many b.w. illustrations by B. Watkins, end paper maps. The author works against the background of a rich & ancient culture in poetic prose the story of a great nation and a continent rather than a country. . A vast panorama from about 3000 B.C. to the establishment of the Republic. A simple, consecutive story covering the important aspects of Chinese civilization, an introductory history of a great people. . A nice beginning in the mythological period, accounts of nomad leaders & of legendary kings...Great reading, the introduction of Buddhism, the Tartars, renaissance unter T'ang, luxury, elegance, Marco Polo, coming of the Europeans, Jesuits, the rise of Peking, Manchu conquest, the wars...down to the war with Japan. .

London 1911, Jack. Red cloth, very good, 2 vol.set, top edge gilt, 153+127p., 127 color & b.w. plates, tall folio, 26.5 x 39 cm., * * FIRST PRINTING THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION * * , . *** **** *** . . THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING FROM LONDON . . . AN authoritative & COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR & B.W. PHOTOS . . . A CLASSIC ON ALL SCHOOLS OF JAPANESE PAINTING . * Covers the early periods: Tosa, Kano, Ukiyo-e, Chinese, Seishu, Korin, Maruyama, Shijo, Kishi, & minor schools. . A grand scale work, in folio size, with copious notes and commentaries. . Selected from the works of Japan's greatest artists from the early periods, Tosa school, Chinese school of the Ashikaga period, Sesshiu, Kano, Korin, Ukiyo-e, later Chinese, Shijo, Maruyama, Kishi or Ganku & minor schools. . * Superb reference, with valuable index. A reliable resource for collectors of Japanese graphic art and art history. . This work has been a reliable standard reference, since… Read More

Honolulu [2004], Univ. Hawaii. Black cloth, very firm, 176p. index, bibliography, appendix of artists names, biographical info., 40 color plates, an excellent copy, dust jacket, 18 x 25.5 cm. bright "like new" copy. FIRST EDITION One of the first and modern studies of Vietnamese painters with a scholarly approach. This work surveys the impact of Vietnamese painters from the North have had on intellectual life. The influence of tension, politics, favoritism, tourism and the international art market on the artists. . The role of the government, rise and fall of favored or un-favored artists, gender, national identity. Innovative perspective on Hanoi artist life and works. . * The author has made use of oral history and ethnographic interviews with painters and intellectuals to refigure Vietnamese art history around local rather than Western and nationalist preoccupations with art in Vietnam. . An original study, with excellent insights and value for any collector or museum. . *** .

[Hong Kong 1989]. Stiff pictorial wrs., very good, oblong format 26 x 25 cm., 40p.,Chinese & English captions, list of paintings, biography,40 color photos of his paintings, photo of the artist. OBSCURE FIRST & ONLY EDITION A stunning look at the fantastic paintings of Huang. The charm and pure artistic quality. A various group of his superb landscapes , mountains & water [Shan shue]. Simply great ! * .

Beijing 1986, Morning Glory. White pictorial boards, very good, as new, 82p., index, appendix, biography of the artist 55 color 26 b.w. photos, 24 x 26 cm., English & Chinese text FIRST AND ONLY EDITION A delightful and marvelous work. Capturing the essence of the Chinese heart & emotional origins, this artist has crea- ted a wonderful referernce and insight to childish simplici- ty but with great skill. Illustrating young babies, young girls, mothers and related. Charming is the word ! Color scans can be sent by email. .

[Taipei 1981], Art Book Co. Blue cloth, very clean bright copy, dj. in mylar protector, 25 x 26 cm., 212p., 93 color plates. FIRST & ONLY EDITION Superb reference, shows a large number of his very tender paintings of Chinese woman, nude women, horses, flowers, animals, cats, flowrs, birds, parrots and others. * .

[Japan n.d. ca 1830]. A superb scroll painting on silk, 39.5 cm. wide by 233 cm. long, painting size: 29.5 x 185cm., fine mounting, pale silk chrysanthemum patterned border, flawless flawless, excellent pastel colors, excellent condition.RARE! THIS IS A GREAT AND STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL HAND-PAINTED SCROLL * THE SUBJECT: Kato Kiyomasa [1562-1611] was the son of Kiyotada, a relative of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and served him and distinguished himself as one of the seven most famous warriors of that time by his heroic acts at the Battle of Shizugadatake. . During the invasion of Korea, he followed Yukinaga Konishi [?-1600] to Pusan and on to Seoul in 1592 where he fought so fiercely, that the Koreans named him "Devil Kiyomasa." Yukinaga was a Christian warrior & retainer of Hideie Ukita and was appointed Lord of Settsu by Hideyoshi Toyotomi. . Hideyoshi appointed these two to spearhead the Korean invasion, with Yukinaga the commander. The plan was to launch waves of army corps by ship across the… Read More

New York [1994], Oriental Gallery. Black stiff pictorial wrs very good, 25 x 24 cm., 52p., 40 color photos, English and Chinese text. OBSCURE CATALOGUE A superb catalogue of his works. Born in 1947, he has achie- ved a high stature in China and around the world. His works have been collected throughout the world, and appreciated by hosts of museums and collectors. Working with traditional materials, his work reflects both the traditional and cont- emporary spirit and techinques as well as subjects. His art form is steady and solid. .