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Japanese Empire - Political.
by [JAPAN - MEIJI ERA MAP] BATHOLOMEW, J.G.
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- (1922.)
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$246.62
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Edinburgh.: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.. (1922.). Large double page map 54.2 x 43 cms (map), original fold, some edge toning and to the fold, but in very good condition. Large map prepared as plate 65 for “The Times Survey Atlas of the World” in 1922 and was prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute under the direction of J G… Read more about this item Item Price
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Map of Japan Shewing Connections Chosen Manchuria North-China.
by [THOMAS COOK TOURIST MAP OF JAPAN].
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- [circa1914].
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$712.46
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Yokohama.: Thomas Cook and Son; Box of Curios Press. [circa1914].. Folding coloured map of Japan showing steamship and railway routes picked out in red, 28.5 x 336.2cms, large inset map shows Japan's connections with Korea, Manchuria and North China; tipped into the original blue card title-wrappers, small professionally sealed tear to a lower margin (no loss), early owner's neat inked… Read more about this item Item Price
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Travelers' Map of Japan, Chosen (Korea), Taiwan (Formosa), with Brief Descriptions of the Principal Tourist Points in Japan.
by [1920S TOURIST MAP - JAPAN, KOREA AND TAIWAN].
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- 1925.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$575.45
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[Tokyo].: Japanese Government Railways.. 1925.. Large folding colour map, 78.5 x 80 cm, of Japan and Korea, Six inset maps one of which shows Taiwan; tipped into the original green cloth covered case with green ties, the cloth a little faded, decorative title-page and text in 30 panels on the verso, a very good, clean copy. Scarce edition of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Noh Play. "Ha-goromo" or "The Robe of Feathers."
by [NOH - JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT]
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- [circa1930s].
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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[circa1930s].. Japanese woodblock print on fine paper tipped onto thin card 24.3 x 35.8 cms; 29.8 x 40.8 cms (with mount), descriptive text in English and Japanese tipped to the verso, scant foxing mainly affecting the mount, overall very good condition. A finely designed image, richly coloured and embossed, artist's chop at lower right. The text on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The de la Chine et des Indes. [vintage paper advertising label for tea from China and India].
by [1890S TEA EPHEMERA]
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- circa1890s.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$71.25
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Paris.: Compagnie Des Antilles.. circa1890s.. Tea crate label 16.5 x 22 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured ilustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles, a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very succesful, winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of 1892.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Travelers' Map of Japan Chosen (Korea) Taiwan (Formosa) with Brief Descriptions of the Principal Tourist Points in Japan. 1927.
by [1920S TOURIST MAP - JAPAN, KOREA AND TAIWAN].
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- (Circa1927).
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$411.04
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[Tokyo].: Japanese Government Railways.. (Circa1927).. Large folding colour map, 78.5 x 80 cm, of Japan and Korea, 6 inset maps one of which shows Taiwan, scale 1:1,640,000 for Hondo, Shikoku and Kyushu, 1:2340,000 for Chosen; tipped into the original orange cloth covered case with orange ties, text in 31 panels on the verso (one a little age-toned), a few… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mineral Wealth of Japan.
by [MINERAL RESOURCES OF JAPAN] MUNROE, HENRY S.
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- 1878.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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Philadelphia.: American Institute of Mining Engineers. Sherman & Co., printers.. 1878.. Large folding map of Japan showing "some of the more important Mining Districts, Coal Fields etc." (small fold split without loss), tables, 67pp. Covers a little scuffed and discoloured, overall in very good condition. Scarce offprint separately paginated, of a paper included in Volume V of the Transactions of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Valley of the Tomb near Longwood. [Caption Title].
by HEINE, WILLIAM; BROWN, ELIPHALET; T. SINCLAIR (LITHOGRAPHERS).
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- (1856).
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$54.81
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(Washington).: (A.O.P. Nicholson).. (1856).. Tinted lithograph, 13 x 20.3, 22.4 x 28.8 cm (sheet), crescent-shaped stain (tidemark) affecting the margin upper right , lower edged ragged, but the image in very good condition. From Perry's ''The Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan: performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854...'', by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Two Studio Portraits of Young Naval Officers.
by TAMAMURA, KOZABURO (STUDIO OF).
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- (Circa1901).
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$274.03
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Kobe.. (Circa1901).. Two photographic prints 14.3 x 10.3 and 13.1 x 9.4 cms (images) mounted on stamped studio card: 22.5 x 15.8 and 18.5 x 13.3 cms (the smaller a little bumped and stained to a lower corner), faint spotting to one image and some silvering in the other, the larger signed in the image "Arthur, 1901" and the other… Read more about this item Item Price
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Meiji-Era Japanese Photograph Album
by [1890S STUDIO IMAGES OF JAPAN].
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- 1890s
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$2,466.23
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Japan.. 1890s. 46 albumen photographs, some handcoloured (34 captioned with studio stock references) approx. 20 x 25.5 cms on 23 gilt-edged leaves in an attractive pictorial lacquer album 27 x 26 cms, spine renewed and hinges professionally secured, some fading and spotting to the images and toning to the margins of the card leaves, lacquer a little chipped, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Map of Japan.
by [JAPAN & TAIWAN - MAP] OKISHIO, TAKACHIKA.
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- 1906.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$2,466.23
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Kobe, Japan.: Fuku-In-Kwan.. 1906.. Printed colour folding map on two conjoined sheets, laid down, 73.8 x 105 cms, foxing on verso (not affecting map), single pinhole in each corner, scant spotting, small fold splits (no loss), a few soft fold creases, but in good condition. Very rare striking map of Japan published for the Western market.
Created under… Read more about this item Item Price
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Japanese Photograph Album of the Late Meiji Period.
by [JAPAN - STUDIO PHOTO ALBUM] TAMAMURA, KOZABURO.
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- (Circa1890s).
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$3,233.50
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[Japan].. (Circa1890s).. 50 hand-tinted albumen prints (30 captioned with studio stock references) mounted on thick gilt-edged card leaves19.5 x 25 cms, in an album 27.5 x 35 cms; elaborately lacquered boards (scuffed and chipped) inlaid with mother of pearl (with loss) over quarter calf (renewed), bevelled edges, gilt dentelles, endpapers gilt-flecked, some fading and spotting to the images and toning… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jap Army Uniforms [caption title]. Newsmap for the Armed Forces. 230th Week of the War - 112th Week of U.S. Participation. Monday, February 7, 1944.
by [MILITARY UNIFORMS - JAPAN - WWII].
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- July 21944.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$822.08
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New York.: Army Information Branch.. July 21944.. Full colour poster 88.7 x 119.2 cms of military uniforms, on the recto two maps (of the Marshall Islands and Burma), black and white photographic illustrations and text, folding to a Newsmap 22 x 30 cms, a few fold splits archivally strengthened (without loss), tape residue in the upper corners, light wear and… Read more about this item Item Price
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New Map of Japan.
by [WWII MAP OF JAPAN] TSUTSUKI, T.
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- 1935
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$493.25
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Tokyo.: Nihon-Kenkyusha.. 1935. Large folding colour map of Japan 74.3 x 105 cms; folding into printed card covers 27 x 19.5 cms: 9 insets: Chosen (Korea); Hokkaido; Chisima Islands; General Map of Japan and Manchuokuo; Karafuto (Saghalien); Okinawa (Loochoo); Taiwan (Formosa); Micronesia; Ogasawara; Hajijoshima; the covers a litle worn and marked, and the sheet slightly toned, but the map is… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$493.25
Archive of George and John Caiger.
by [AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN - A VISUAL AND WRITTEN MEMOIR].
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- Circa 1908 -2005.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$6,302.58
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Circa 1908 -2005.. George Caiger (1903-1991):
10 family photographic albums with over 800 black and white photographs, many captioned, dating mainly from the 1920s -1940s, one album with a few earlier images (including two cabinet cards stamped by the W. H. Bursle studio Orange, and large format tinted military portrait signed La Doré, Orange); one manila folder with16 photographs… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$6,302.58
Yamanashi Prefecture Sight-Seeing Guide Map.
by [JAPAN - YAMANASHI - MAP]
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- circa1930s.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$575.45
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Kofu.: Onkodo Printing Co.,. circa1930s.. Colour pictorial map, 70.2 x 56 cms; 75.5 x 59.5 cms (sheet), light wear along the inner margin, some soft creases from folding, short split at center fold; in very good, clean condition. An appealing and decorative map of Yamanashi Prefecture, which, while a process print, has the attractive soft look of a lithograph, adorned… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$575.45
Target Tokyo. Newsmap for the Armed Forces. Monday, October 18, 1943. 214th Week of the War - 96th Week of U.S. Participation.
by [JAPAN - WORLD WAR II - PROPAGANDA] MANNING, F. E. (MAPMAKER).
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- August 10,1943.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$822.08
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Washington, D.C.: Army Air Forces.. August 10,1943.. Very large folding colour poster 119.8 x 89 cm, edgewear and small fold splits with no loss to the image, the sheet toned along the folds, but in very good condition. Striking hemispherical view with Japan at the centre, encompassing the area from Iran in the west, Australia in the south, and as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection including three large ensemble photographs of women from a well-known studio.
by [KYOTO - LATE MEIJI STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS]
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- Late Meiji? [1900?].
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$1,013.89
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Kyoto.. Late Meiji? [1900?].. Nine mounted studio photographs, the images with some fading and spotting but overall in good condition, the mounts worn and toned a few with occasional spotting:
Three (large ensemble groups of women), 21 x 26.5 cms mounted on embossed card, two with the Kyoto studio stamps of Kiyokuan and the other Kobayashi;
One (young cadets) 21.8… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bilingual Map of Greater Tokyo.
by [TOKYO - TOURIST MAP] KING ASSOCIATES.
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- 1954.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$246.62
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Tokyo.: Charles E. Tuttle Company.. 1954.. Printed four colour map, 92 x 71cm; 102.5 x 74.5cm (sheet), folding into pictorial wrappers, 25.6 x 19 cms, inset map of the Marounouchi District and on the verso an extensive grid reference in English and Japanese and, over four panels, a map of the streetcar, railway and subway system, scant spotting to… Read more about this item Item Price
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風流十二月. 五月. 七月. 十月. 極月. [Furyu junigatu. Gogatsu, Shichigatsu. Jugatsu. Gokugetsu]. [12 Months of Delightful Children's Scenes. May, July, October and December].
by [ISHIKAWA TOYOMASA]. 石川豊雅.
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- [late19th Century?]
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUS
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NZ$712.46
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[Japan].. [late19th Century?]. Set of four Japanese woodblock prints of the original series of twelve prints. Approx 26 x 18 cms, preserved in modern window mounts 40.5 x 30.5 cms, images in very good condition. These delightful scenes of children's play were originally depicted by Ishikawa Toyomasa in the mid-18th century as a series of 12 scenes for a year.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$712.46