Asia Bookroom

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Asia Bookroom specialises in books on Asia with smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian and secondhand books through to ephemera, prints and maps and even some new books. We sell to private customers and institutions around the world. Join our mailing list to receive tailored offerings of new arrivals in your particular area of interest and visit our shop next time you are in Canberra.

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Highlights
浅草観音. 雨の図. [Asakusa Kannon Temple. A Rainy Scene].
$5250
Exceedingly rare limited edition woodblock print by Yokouchi Ginnosuke, a Yokohama-based artist who began his career as a watercolour landscape painter, before producing eight self-published woodblock prints in the 1930s. Little is known of his life, but his work is representative of the Shin-hanga movement. This beautiful, playful composition has a great delicacy of tone and a painterly fluidity of line.
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連合国占領下の東京とその周辺地域のアルバム. [Scenes from Tokyo and Japan in the Allied Occupation Period].
$3750
A handsome, rare example of an album apparently issued by a Japanese company for US forces in Occupied Japan.","This rare photographic album was published by Shinsekai Tsushinsha (新世界通信社) soon after the Allied Occupation of Japan began. The scenes depicted are mainly from Tokyo, where the occupation headquarters were located and American troops were concentrated, but the album also includes photographs of scenic spots popular with the occupation forces, including Nikko, the Great Buddha of Kamakura, and the ski resort of Zao in midwinter.
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Postans, Mrs (Marianne) - Cutch, or Random Sketches of Western India.
$3750
A scarce, pioneering account of India under Company rule, beautifully illustrated after sketches by the author.
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江戸一覧名所双六. [Sugoroku Game Featuring Famous Places in Edo].
$9000
An exceptionally well-preserved colour woodblock sugoroku game from 1859, towards the end of the Edo period, presenting Edo as a bird’s-eye view map, with Mount Fuji prominently shown at the top. The artist, Utagawa Hiroshige II, depicts Edo as a vast and vibrant metropolis, its buildings and houses densely packed together. Rivers, including the Sumida River, run through the city, crossed by numerous bridges. Close inspection reveals streets crowded with people walking, shopping and travelling through the city. Sailing boats appear on the rivers and along the shore.
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Hyde, Helen - The Shower. Mother and Child in Rain.
$2000
Early career etching by Helen Hyde, a pioneering American printmaker, heavily tied to her sketches of San Francisco's Chinatown. In this sketch, she has tenderly captured a Chinese mother and child huddling close together under a large, vivid blue umbrella, braving the elements, as sharp, diagonal lines of rain streak across the image.
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Fitzclarence, George - Journal of a Route Across India, Through Egypt, to England in the Latter End of the Year 1817, and the Beginning of 1818.
$2250
George Fitzclarence, the eldest illegitimate son of King William IV, was a soldier and scholar who served in the Napoleonic Wars and India. During the Third Anglo-Maratha War, he served as aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Hastings before being chosen to deliver peace dispatches to England via an arduous overland route. Starting in December 1817, he travelled from Bundelkund to Bombay - witnessing the defeat of the Pindarrees at Jubbulpore - and then sailed to Egypt.
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地球儀. [Early Japanese Globe in its Original Box].
$2750
A miniature globe produced in 1875 by Mori Kinseki, a cartographer, noted lithographer and Nanga artist. The geographical detail is finely printed in delicate colours, with clear and precise line work. In the early Meiji period, the globe carried considerable symbolic significance, symbolising Japan's opening to the world. By the 1880s, globes were being introduced into primary schools for the teaching of geography. This earlier example is a scarce survivor.
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Kowalewski, Joseph Etienne - Dictionnaire Mongol-Russe-Français Dédié à Sa Majesté L'Empereur de Toutes les Russies.
$3950
A landmark work - the first large-scale scholarly dictionary of Mongolian published for the European market and a milestone in historical linguistics and academic publishing. Published in three volumes over six years, it drew on classical Mongolian and religious and archaic texts (reflecting the author's own interests in Mongolia and in Buddhism); the trilingual dictionary also addressed the challenge of transliterating Mongolian script. These three volumes were reprinted and bound as one in 1941 by the influential White Russian bookseller and publisher Ivan Serebrennikoff in Tianjin.
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Richard F. Burton's Translation of the Arabian Nights.
$3500
The handsome H.S. Nichols' Library Edition of Burton's classic work with fine photogravure illustrations. Nichols included reproductions of the original "Kamashastra Society" title pages.
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The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
$1250
A fascinating and illuminating survey of the damage wrought by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, compiled by American authorities following Japan's surrender. An almost serene level of cold detachment typifies the report's language, and despite being punctuated by examples of tragic and desperately human imagery and experiences, their accompanying captions and highly detailed retellings of events are mechanical to the point of being sublimely inhuman. A deeply valuable resource for students of atomic warfare and the post-atomic age.
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