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Historically Significant Album with 35 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Construction and Early Operations of a Sugar Factory in the Dutch East Indies – Most Likely, the Djatiroto Complex (Jatiroto, East Java), Showing the Factory, Machinery, an Auxiliary River Dam Under Construction, Railway Station, Locomotive to Transport Sugar Cane, European Administrators and Javanese Workers, &c. Ca. 1900s.
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[Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y. Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881. [With]: Pyasetsky, P.Y. Neudachnaya ekspeditsiya v Kitai 1874-1875 gg. V otvet na xashchitu g. Sosnovskogo po povodu knigi ‘‘Puteshestvie v Kitai’’ [i.e. Unsuccessful expedition to China. In Reply to the Defense of Mr. Sosnovsky about the book ‘‘Travel across China’’].
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$ 3500.00
Bezsonov, Boris Vasilyevich. Russkie pereselentsy v Severnoi Persii [i.e. Russian settlers in Northern Persia] Petrograd: Publishing of the Migration Administration of the Main Administration of Land Management and Agriculture, 1915.
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$ 45000.00
[Golovnin, Vasily Mikhailovich] (1776-1831). Zapiski Flota Kapitana Golovnina o Prikliucheniyakh Yego v Plenu u Yapontsev v 1811, 1812 i 1813 Godakh. S Priobshcheniyem Zamechaniy Yego o Yaponskom Gosudarstve i Narode [Notes of Fleet Captain Golovnin About his Adventures in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813. With the Supplement of His Notes about Japanese State and People]. St. Petersburg: Naval Typ., 1816.
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$ 4500.00
[Golovnin, V.M.]. Zapiski Vasiliia Mikhailovicha Golovnina v Plenu u Yapontsev d 1811, 1812 i 1813 Godakh, i Zhizneopisanie Avtora [i.e. Notes of V.M. Golovnin [made] in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813, and the Biography of the Author]. St. Petersburg: Typ. Of N. Grech, 1851.
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$ 950.00
Oyamada, Tomokiyo (1783-1847). [Japanese Woodblock Printed Travel Book of a Journey from Edo (Tokyo) to Soma, in the Kanto Region Titled:] Soma Nikki. Edo: Iseya Tadaemon; Kadomaruya Jinsuke, Bunsei 1 [1818].
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$ 1250.00
Japanese Lacquered Album of 52 Hand-Coloured Albumen Photographs of Japan, Showing General Views and Street Scenes (Yokohama, Nagasaki, Mt. Fuji, etc.), Temples and Shrines (Ginkaku-ji, Nikkō Tōshō-gū, Buddhist Temple), and Scenes of Life (Portraits of Geisha, Wedding, Funeral, Agriculture, etc.). Ca. 1900s.
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$ 650.00
Motoyoshi, Umeura. Tsuzoku Igirisu Tangohen [Popular Dictionary of the English language]. Tokyo: Izumiya Hanbei, Meiji 4 [1871].
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Collection of Two Albums with 248 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and 144 Real Photo Postcards Showing Japan, Including Tokyo (Ōmori, Ueno Park, Tsukiji, Street Scenes, Portraits of Locals), Hakone Hot Springs, Karuizawa, Mt. Asama, Gotemba, Shrines and Temples, Countryside Views, Portraits of Geisha, etc. Ca. 1919-1920.
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Moeji, Nagai [永井萠二] (1861–1946), MOTOJI, Nishi [西元治絵] (1920–1993). Nankyoku ni idomu nihonjin : Shirasetai tanken monogatari [南極にいどむ日本人 : 白瀬隊探検物語] [i.e.The Man Who Challenged Antarctic : Shirase’s Expedition Story]. 1 volume, complete. Tōkyō: Komine Shoten, Showa 26 [1951].
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Okada, Saburo (1890-1954), ITŌ, Kikuzō (1901-1985). Kaitakusha Shirase chui [開拓者白瀬中尉] [i.e. Pioneer Lieutenant Shirase]. 1 volume, complete. Tōkyō: Tsurushobō, Showa 18 [1943].
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$ 1500.00
Album of 143 Studio and Original Snapshot Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing US Military Bases in Japan (East Fuji Maneuver Area, Camp Sakai, Shinodayama), Kyoto (Yasaka Pagoda, Nijō Castle, Shrines), Kobe, Osaka, etc. During the Allied Occupation of Japan. Ca. 1949-52.
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Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore, Samoa, and Hawaii, Including Interesting Images of Nikko Temples and Processions, Tea Houses, Villages and Hotels around Lake Hakone, Streets of Tokyo, and Nara, Panoramas of Penang and Hong Kong, Scenes of Execution in Canton, Portraits of “Maoris” and Samoans, etc., Titled: Around the World, 1900. 20 March - 31 August 1900.
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Kirishitan taiji monogatari [吉利支丹退治物語] [i.e. The Story of Exterminating Hidden Christians]. Tōkyō: Seisaku Yamada, Showa 3-4 [1928-1929].
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$ 1750.00
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Presentation copy: Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Titled: Phographs [Sic!] of Japan Raw Silk. 1937. Presented to Dr. Paul Monroe by the Central Raw Silk Association of Japan. Ca. 1937.
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Historically Significant Archive of Eight Original Manuscripts and Period Copies, Documenting The Fate of The Crew of US Schooner "Golden Fleece," Its Captain Edward Funcke, Who Were Shipwrecked At Kozlov Cape In Kamchatka, Taken Into Custody, Released After Cleared Of Charges In Poaching, Refused A Place at HMS Daphne, And Finally Brought Safely To American Consulate in Yokohama. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia); Yokohama (Japan), Septermber-October, 1897.
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Krusenstern, Adam Johann von (1770-1846) & Tilesius, Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tilenau (1769-1857). Large Copper Engraving from the Famous Atlas of Captain Krusenstern’s First Russian Circumnavigation, Titled: Sudno Printsa Chingodzina, na Kotorom Rossiysky Poslannik Poyekhal s Korablya na Bereg. Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuerst in Nangasaki ans Land fuhr [The Boat of Prince Tschingodzin on Which the Russian Ambassador Travelled Ashore from the Ship]. [Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813].
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$ 1250.00
Album of Twenty-six Original Albumen Photographs of Nikko, Japan. Ca. 1890.
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Hayashi, Heizo Michiyuki (1738–1793). Kaikoku heidan hoi [海國兵談補遺] [i.e. Equestrianism. A Military Defense of a Maritime Nation]. Complete in 2 volumes. Edō [Tōkyō]: Yamatoya Kihee, Keio 3 [1867].
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[Taylor, R., Attributed to]. Album with Forty-One Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken by a Private of the 9th Marine Regiment of the US Marine Corps During the Mass Ascent of Mountain Fuji. 1957.
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Original Japanese Wood Block Depicting a Scene in an Edo (Tokyo) Brothel, with an Example of the Print on Recent Paper, Titled: Edo Fuzoku Kuruwa-Sho-ga. Ca. Early Meiji (1860-1870s).
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McGuire, Muriel Louise (1917-2003). Album of 208 Original and Studio Gelatin Silver Photographs of Japan Shortly After WWII, Showing Emperor Hirohito Visiting Chiba, Officer Billets (Shufu-no-Tomo, Shiba Park Hotel), 42nd General Hospital (St. Luke’s International Hospital), Atsugi Air Base, a “Fisherman’s Festival,” Street Scenes, Snapshots of Local Japanese, etc. Ca. 1946-1949.
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Historically Significant Album with 132 Original Gelatin Silver Amateur and Studio Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Serviceman of the Yokohama Headquarters of the Eighth U.S. Army, Showing U.S. Military Camp and Headquarters in Yokohama, the Compiler and His Fellow Servicemen, Japanese People and Girls in Western Clothes, Streets and Sites of Yokohama and Tokyo, Scenes of Atomic Destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, &c.; With: An Original Blue Cloth "Air Police" Armband. Ca. 1945 – late 1940s.
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Way, Richard Quarterman (1819-1895); Mitsukuri, Genpo (1799-1863). [Japanese Woodblock Printed Book, Titled:] Chikyu Setsuryaku. [An Account of the World]. Tokyo: Rokokan Zoshi, ca. Meiji 4 [1871].
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Ichiryusai, Yoshitoyo. Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Showing an American Sailor Smoking a Pipe, a Servant and a Young Japanese Courtesan, Titled:] America jin Yuriya no Zu [i.e. American in a Brothel. Yokohama, Kikuya Ichibei, ca. 1860s.
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