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Cat Town. Tokyo, The Jûjiya Press, 1948.

HAGIWARA, SAKUTARÔ / KAWAKAMI, SUMIO (Transl.): · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€900.00 ($991.99 | £750.73 | ¥158,426)

Small 4to. Size: 19.3 x 15 cm. Pp. 25. With five woodblock-printed illustrations. Original decorated paper-covered boards. First English edition of the prose poem "Nekomachi" by Hagiwara Sakutarô. He is sometimes considered the "Father of modern colloquial poetry" in Japan becau…

[SHEET MUSIC - ART NOUVEAU / ART DECO]. [A collection of thirty tremolo harmonica scores within striking decorated covers]. Tokyo, Taisho 13 (1924 - Showa 12 (1937).

KAWAGUCHI, SHOGO (Ed.): · 1920 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Large 8vo. (19 x 26.5 cm). Comprises thirty different issues, mainly from the Taisho period in 1920s. Single folded paper sheets with musical notes. Striking decorated front covers in different colours, printed in Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Twenty included in a series titl…

The Catalogue Hakubotan Principal Store. Tokyo (Kyobashi) ca 1910.

[HAKUBOTAN]. · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€280.00 ($308.62 | £233.56 | ¥49,288)

Pp. 48. Japanese text. Richly illustrated. With a photo of the store and its owner. Original coloured decorated wrappers with a white peony (Hakubotan) on upper cover, lightly stained. An interesting catalogue presenting the company's products including hairpins, combs, jeweller…

Plan of Passenger Accommodation Motor Ships "Atsuma Maru" & "Tatsuta Maru". The Orient-California Fortnightly Service N.Y.K. Line. Tokyo 1930s.

[NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA]. · 1885 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€380.00 ($418.84 | £316.98 | ¥66,891)

Large folding pamphlet presenting two Japanese luxury passenger lines. Text in English. An informative guide about tariffs, the Company's offices and agents, charts of the various deck and social areas together with photographs. Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), today Japan's largest s…

[A coloured moveable copper engraved plate]. Tokyo (Nihonbashi), Fukuda Eizo, 1884.

[CHITOSE-ZA THEATRE]. · 1873 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,600.00 ($2,865.74 | £2,168.78 | ¥457,676)

Comprises a two-page print (50.5 x 36.8 cm) with one upper part depicting the exterior of the Chitose-za Theatre and a lower part showing its interior. Printed in bold and bright colours. One small hole in the upper right area and one small stain on the reverse side in the middl…

Complete Tadanori Yokoo. Tokyo, Kodan sha, 1971.

TADANORI YOKOO 横尾 忠則: · 1936 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

Pp. 328. Numerous illustrations, of which many in bright colours. Japanese text with one page of introduction in English. Decorated wrappers, some minor wear, in original decorated slip case, lightly rubbed (missing the belly band as usual). First edition. Yokoo Tadanori is on…

[JAPAN - PAPER PRODUCTION]. Ganpi-shi (Ganpi paper) 雁皮紙. Tokyo, Arrow Art Works, Showa 52 (1977).

YAGIHASHI, SHIN (Text) & OOHORI, KAZUHIKO (Photogr.): · 1902 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

Oblong folio (42 x 29.5 cm). Comprises eight folders with fourteen paper samples with accompanying text and pictures. As issued in original decorated soft-cover wrappers. Includes an introductory folder with text and one colour plate, and a facsimile of a pamphlet on Ganpi paper…

Straw Hats Catalogue. New Fashion 1922. Full Fasihoned (sic) and Hand Tinished (sic). Y. Watanabe & Co., Bakudocho, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo 1922.

[JAPAN - SALES CATALOGUE]. · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€260.00 ($286.57 | £216.88 | ¥45,768)

A sales pamphlet comprising 10 pages folded with front cover printed in red and black and with a straw hat illustration. Size 13 x 18.5 cm. Title in English otherwise Japanese text. The catalogue offers various kinds of hats with illustrations and prices. Some minor staining.

Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School. Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura. Tokyo, Yoshizawa & Co, 1919.

[KAWAURA, KEN-ICHI] · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€480.00 ($529.06 | £400.39 | ¥84,494)

Folio. Pp. (iv), 6 "list of plates", 120 pages with 425 b/w illustrations, six wood engraved plates (five coloured) + pp. 15 "Biographical notes", one page with Japanese colophon. Original decorated silk-covered boards, title label on upper cover, silk ties. First edition, numbe…

Japanische Dichtungen Weissaster. Ein romantisches Epos. Nebst anderen Gedichten. Zweite Auflage. Leipzig & Tokyo, Hasegawa, ca 1898.

FLORENZ, KARL ADOLF (Transl.): · 1895 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

Large 8vo. (14.5 x 19.1 cm). A beautiful crêpe paper book comprising 48 leaves including covers, bound in the fukuro-toji style with silk ties, spine covered with silk. Original pictorial folder, worn and restored. (Old ownership signature on title). With lovely colour woodcut i…

Nikko-san Manganji Otakaramono Zukai (Illustrated book of the Treasures of Manganji Temple in Mount Nikko). Tokyo, Inoue Mohei, Meiji 29 (1896).

[NIKKO GUIDE BOOK - JAPAN]. · 1617 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Size: 12.7 x 18.5 cm. Lvs. 64 folded in the Japanese fashion. Richly illustrated throughout by Oshima Keizaburo. Captions in Japanese and English. Original yellow wrappers, title label on upper cover, resewn, stained. Red Asian stamps. Occasionally some light staining. A fascina…

Die zerbrochenen Bildsäulen. (The Broken Images). Japanische Märchen. Tokyo, Takejiro Hasegawa, Showa 6, (1931).

KNAUER, LEOPOLDINE (Transl.): · 1931 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€980.00 ($1,080.16 | £817.46 | ¥172,509)

Small 18mo crêpe paper book (10.3 x 15 cm). Lvs 15, folded in the fukuro-toji style. With thirteen colour woodcut illustrations, several full page. Original wrappers, pictorial upper cover (one tiny tear at upper margin), spine covered, silk ties. A scarce title. Included in a…

Japan's Year. Illustrated by Japanese Artists. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, Meiji 38 (1905).

CARROTHERS, JULIA DODGE: · 1869 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

Large 8vo. (18.3 x 24.6 cm) Pp. 76, double folded in the Japanese fashion. With sixteen full page colour woodcuts and three single sheet crêpe paper woodcut prints tipped in. Further illustrations throughout the text. With English text. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers, s…

Self Guide for Travellers in Japan. Published by Shuseido, Tokyo Meiji 20 (1887).

SAKAI, SUTEHIKO (Ed. & Publ.): · 1887 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

A large folding map (70 x 60.5 cm) printed in colours covering the middle part of Japan (from Tsu in Mie prefecture to Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture). A detailed map printed in Japanese, towns also printed in English. Some small repairs on verso, nicely done. Housed in origina…

Programme of Entertainment in Honour of H.I.H. Prince Pu Lun. Given by Baron S. Goto at the Kabukiza on December 11th, 1907. Tokyo 1907.

[KABUKI]. · 1857 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€900.00 ($991.99 | £750.73 | ¥158,426)

Tall 8vo (15 x 22,5 cm). Pp. 28 bound in the fukuro-toji style, and two colour woodcut prints highlighted with gold. Text in English, Japanese and Chinese. Original coloured pictorial wrappers highlighted, silk ties. A very attractive programme of a Kabuki play "The Battle of Ya…

Genroku hanami odori. Nagauta - music. Piano solo. + AND: YAMADA, KOSCAK: Rokudan (Koto music) Transcribed for piano. Two volumes. Published by Jujiya Gakkiten, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 1928 & 1930.

[JAPAN - MUSIC]. SAWADA, R.: · 1874 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€380.00 ($418.84 | £316.98 | ¥66,891)

Folio. (30 x 22.5 cm). Pp. 8 + 8. As issued loose leaves in original coloured pictorial wrappers. Jujiya Gakki-Ten was founded in 1874 as Japan's first western musical instrument shop, today operating as a flute and harp salon in Ginza, Tokyo.

Scènes du théâtre japonais. Hiragami-bon. L'école de village (Terakoya). Drame historique en un acte. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, éditeur, 1900.

ARAI, YOSHIMUNE (Artist) & FLORENZ, KARL (Transl.): · 1900 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€680.00 ($749.50 | £567.22 | ¥119,700)

Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), vi, 32, 9. Richly illustrated with coloured woodcuts. Leaves double folded in the oriental fashion. Original decorated boards, chipped along edges. Internally fine. First edition published in connection with the Universal Exposition of 1900 at Paris. The f…

An English Chinese and Japanese Conversation. Nichi-kan-ei gogen goheki. Tokyo, Yamada Tashiro, Taisho 4, 1915.

[PHRASE BOOK FOR TRADERS]. · 1888 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Oblong 8vo. Size: 13 x 19 cm. Pp. (viii), viii, 195, (1) blank, (1). Characters written in three columns, also including phonetics. Contemporary half cloth on marbled paper boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, somewhat rubbed. Inscriptions to front free endpaper and some ann…

Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, quas in insulis Japonicis annis 1775 et 1776 collegit et descripsit. Parts I-V in one volume. Uppsala, J.F. Edman, 1794-1805. Facsimile edition. Tokyo 1934.

THUNBERG, CARL PETER: · 1784 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

Folio. Lvs (62) + pp. 7 + one page with Japanese colophon. Including 50 plates illustrating Japanese plants. Occasionally some spotting. Contemporary half calf, title lettered on spine, rubbed, cover slighty warped. A reprint of Thunberg's significant work on Japanese plants whi…

Home Life in Tokyo. Second edition. Tokyo 1911.

INOUYE, JUKICHI: · 1862 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)

Pp. (xii), 324, index (8), Japanese colophon (1). Leaves folded in the oriental manner. With coloured frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Original pictorial paper covers, silk threads. Kept in the original cloth box. A comprehensive work on Tokyo and it's inhabitant…