Charles Agvent

ART, LIFE, AND NATURE IN JAPAN

ANESAKI, Masaharu · 1932

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Boston. Marshall Jones Company. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs.. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper

MEIJI PERIOD PHOTO ALBUM with 50 Hand-Colored Albumen Photographs

[JAPAN] · 0

$7,500.00 (€6,804.68 | £5,676.92 | ¥1,197,653)

Oblong Folio (14" x 10-1/2") with a black morocco leather spine with gilt designs and exquisite black enamel painted and onlaid covers. Containing 50 hand-colored 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages titled in the negative in English and wi...

MEIJI PERIOD PHOTO ALBUM with 50 Hand-Colored Albumen Photographs Including the Aftermath of the Great Earthquake of 1891

[JAPAN] · 0

$3,750.00 (€3,402.34 | £2,838.46 | ¥598,827)

Oblong Folio (13-1/2" x 10-1/2") in worn decorative cloth over heavy wooden boards and leather spine, with tissue guards for the photos. A personalized travel album from 19th century Japan with 50 hand-colored 10" x 7-5/8" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pag...

THE HISTORY OF JAPAN: GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THAT EMPIRE ... TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM

[JAPAN] KAEMPFER, Engelbert · 1728

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

London. for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis. First Edition. Two folio (8-1/2" x 13-3/4) volumes in contemporary calf leather, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English, second issue (with the additional appendix in...

AUSSFUHRLICHE GESCHICHT DER IN DEM AUSSERSTEN WELT-THEIL GELEGENEN JAPONESISCHEN KIRCH

[JAPAN] CRASSET, Jean · 1738

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

Augsburg. Franz Antoni Alger. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") with two parts bound together in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps lacking but catches present, title on spine label stamped in blind; [24], 534, [2], 559, [1] pages. Title in re...

IN JAPAN: WITHOUT CLOCK OR CALENDAR

YULE, Emma Sarepta · 0

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,988)

Boston. The Stratford Company. First Edition. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted.. Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine,...