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An excellent example of this world atlas by Hashimoto Gyokuransai (1807-c1878) aka Utagawa Sadahide and Gountei Sadahide containing all ten maps as issued. Sadahide was one of ten Japanese artists who exhibited works at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris. This atlas was first published in the Ansei Era (around 1856) and this is a new edition from 1866. Very scarce in such nice condition and with its original paper sleeve. Tokyo. Kobunkaku. Keio 2 (1866). 18.9 x 12.6cm. Very good to fine. Very minor wear to top and bottom of covers. Sleeve with expected age wear and minor darkening. Hou

First Printing [Doubleday, New York, 1998]; xxii, 250 pages; black papered boards over cloth spine, titling in white to spine, photographic images for endpapers, a fine copy; in like illustrated dustjacket. Signed in full by Patti Smith in Philadelphia under image of typewriter.

Breton Par M. Precede d’un Précis Historique. (Uses, Costumes and Monuments of the Egyptians, Arabs and Syrians. Preceded by a historical summary.) 1814, Published by A Nerve. Paris. 8vo, brown boards with leather spines, with gilt decorations, red morocco in titles and volumes, gilt titles. Gilt edges, very bright, marbled pink endpaper, 6 Volumes (only 5 shown in photo). A most extraordinary set and worthy of a place in your collection.

A scarce five volume set outlining Yae Kichi Yabe's approach to Jiu-jitsu.

Tokyo. Okawa Jokichi. 1895. 56pp. 21.3 x 12.1cm. Good to very good. Covers a bit worn. Some darkening to edges. A few pages with slightly more darkening and one page with some staining. A couple of pages with minor separation at fold but only a couple of cm.

An unusually fine example of a late Qing Dynasty cheats' handkerchief or sheet; an aid for passing the civil service exam under the [科舉] keju system in imperial China.

The ‘Arcano de Mare’ is one the “greatest atlases of the world” (Wardington). This sumptuous atlas, first published in 1646 when its author, Robert Dudley, was 73, was not only the first sea atlas of the world, but also the first to use Mercator’s projection; the earliest to show magnetic deviation; the first to show currents and prevailing winds; the first to expound the advantages of ‘Great Circle Sailing’ – the shortest distance between two points on a globe; and “perhaps less importantly the first sea-atlas to be compiled by an Englishman, all be it abroad in Italy” (Wardington).

A seminal work describing India's geography and people.

81st Thousand [Macmillan, London, 1886]; two-thirds leather over decorative cloth boards, five raised bands, ornate gold decorations & titling on spine, leather a trifle rubbed at extremities, all edges gilt, decorative textured endpapers, very occasional light spotting, an excellent copy.

An uncommon women's suffrage birthday book, published to fundraise for the Scottish Council of the Women's Freedom League, compiled by Eunice Murray, future president of the WFL in Scotland and the first Scotswoman to stand for parliament. It comprises contributions from a number of significant Scottish suffragettes including Helen Fraser, Alexia Jack, and Anna Munro.

Florence, G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, two pages roughly opened, original white boards with original spine paper label lettered in orange, Lawrence's phoenix motif to front cover in orange, edges untrimmed, in decorated dustwrapper: a fine copy. First edition: limited to 810 numbered copies on hand-made paper.

Classic woodblock printed book by Hokusai's first and best-known student, Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850). Nagoya. Kōgetsudō Bunsuke. Tempō 6 (1835). 36 leaves. 23 x 16.3cm. Very good. Wear and creasing to covers. Some thumbing and wear to first few leaves. Some neat notes written in margins of a few pages. Otherwise very good. In custom made, folding case.