Search Results: Titles starting with J from Alan Foljambe, Bookseller [ABAC/ILAB]

Boston and Tokyo: J. B. Millet, 1904. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Five volumes in blue boards with gilt titles and decorations to spines, 9.5" x 6/5" (24x16.5 cm). 262, 248, 257, 251, and 281 pages. Extensively illustrated with tissue protected black and white photographic plates. One colour frontispiece in each volume. Scattered browning, mostly to the margins of the tissue sheets and thus transferred to the margins of some plates. Fading to colour frontispieces. Some small flaws to page edges due to incompetent cutting of pages when book was first opened. Small tear to front interior hinge of volume 3. A few small stains and flaws to boards. Otherwise fine. Extra shipping charges will apply for this five volume set. .

Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Exterior very well worn, pages soft and pliable from use. Two pages of text printed over multi-colour background, two page colourful image of man and woman looking out a window, 57 pages of text illustrated with small black and white line drawings. 7" x 4 3/4" (18 x 22 cm). Publisher and date unknown, circa. 1840..

Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Twenty seven page softcover book bound in Japanese style. Thirteen colour plates on pocket pages + 14 pages of text in kanji on single sheet pages. Heavy wear to exterior, pages soft and somewhat dirty from handling. Date and publisher unknown, circa. 1840..

Tokyo: T. Hasegawa Book. Very Good. Soft cover. No date stated, circa. 1900. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2", string bound. Twelve pocket leaves including covers, colour illustrations on 17 of 24 pages. Text in English. Printed on delicate crepe paper. Wear to covers, darkening on back cover, wear at edges causing some pocket pages to be partially open, one page dog-eared. Overall very good..

Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Two softcover volumes, stab-bound with pocket pages, 6" x 9" (15.5 x 22/5 cm), 32 and 22 pages. Five colour illustrations; two are single page and three are two page spreads. The remaining pages are text in what appears to be an archaic style of kanji. Publisher and date unknown, circa. 1860 (?). A few wormholes present in the margins, overall very good + condition..

Leipzig / Berlin / Plauen: A. Seemann / Christian Stoll, 1899. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Large folio, 17" x 12" (43x30 cm), newly bound in tan fabric boards with brown leather corners and spine. 100 color plates of Japanese fabric designs, + two page introduction in German. Japanese patterned endpapers. New protective tissue sheets tipped onto plates 1 through 35 and 91 through 100, remainder of plates without sheets. Published by A. Seemann in 1899; this copy has a label reading "Christian Stoll, Plauen i. V." pasted over the Seemann name on the title page. Rare. Actual shipping charges will apply for this large and heavy book..

Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, 1894. Book. Illus. by Lalauze, Adolphe. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Finely bound in green leather with gilt, white, blue, and red design on both boards and spine, gilt floral doublures, fabric endpapers."Édition de Deux Mondes. Limited toTwenty Copies, of which Nine Copies are for America." Lettered copy. Extensively illustrated with fine engravings, each present as a hand-tinted example followed by a black and white version.Heavy wear to interior and exterior hinges, otherwise near fine condition. Rare.Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. Jean and Jeannette, one of his lesser-known works, was first published in1846. Adolphe Lalauze (1838-1906) was a prolific French etcher who illustrated many books. .