Japan
23 items found
Imaoka, T. et al.
Echinoderms from continental shelf and slope around Japan. Vol. II.
Tokyo: Japan Fisheries resource Conservation Association, 1991. 4to (25.7 x 18.3 cm). 204 pp.; 79 (groups of) full colour photos and numerous line drawings. Burgundy cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. In transparant jacket.
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Haushofer, K.
Der deutsche Anteil und der geographischen Erschließung Japans und des Subjapanischen Erdraums, und deren Förderung durch den Einfluß von Krieg und Wehrpolitik.
Erlangen, Junge & Sohn, 1914. 8vo (24.2 x 16.0 cm). 110 pp., two folded maps, several text figures and maps. Original printed wrappers.
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Monzen, K. and others
Saito Ho-On Kai. (The Saito Gratitude Foundation) Monographs 1 - 5. [AND] Reprints.
Sendai, The General Department of Scientific research Saito Ho-On Kai, 1927-1931. Two volumes in two. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform blue grained half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
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Pilsbry, H. A.
Catalogue of the marine mollusks of Japan with descriptions of new species and notes on others collected by Frederick Stearns.
Detroit, Frederick Stearns, 1895. 8vo (22.3 x 13.8 cm). viii, 196 pp., 11 lithographed, engraved, and phototype plates. Later blue buckram with gilt lines and title on the spine.
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Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)]
Mollusca Japonica descripta et tabulis tribus iconum illustrata.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1861. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.5 cm) [Board size 32.5 x 26.0 cm] 36 pp.; three finely hand-coloured lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed boards.
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[Japanese fabric design] Tsuji, S. (ed.)
Senshoku Taikan Ori no bu san [Great encyclopedia of dyeing and weaving].
Kyoto, Taisho, 1914. In two volumes (of ten). Large 8vo size (25.0 x 18.1 cm). 42 [21; 21] leporello "pages", each with pochoir illustrations, several heightened with silver, and either double-sized, covering two pages, one page sized, or smaller, with two or more on one page, for a total of 78 [39; 39] different designs. Original near uniform printed soft covers, heightened with silver and gold.
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Siebold, P. F. von
Fauna Japonica sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1825 - 1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Conjunctis studiis C. J. Temminck et H. Schlegel pro vertebratis atque W. de Haan pro invertebratis elaborata. Pisces.
Leiden, A. Arnz, [1842]-1850 [REPRINT Tokyo, Kodansha, 1982]. Folio (37.0 x 29.2 cm; box size: 45 x 32.5 x 10 cm). Decorated title page, 2, 345 pp.; 161 mostly coloured plates. Original half calf over red cloth boards. Spine with six raised bands, rich gilt compartments and gilt title. Top edge gilt. Preserved in a burgundy cloth clamshell box with printed title (in Japanese) on marbled paper, pasted on the top board, and a second label tipped in inside on the bottom.
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Seemann, A.
Japanische Färbeschablonen. Hundert Muster kleineren formates. In Originalgrösse herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Artur Seemann.
Leipzig, Berlin, E. A. Seemann, 1899. Folio (42.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page, 2 pp. introduction; two loose sheets with Japanese text; 100 coloured prints with Japanese stencil designs. In original portfolio (43.0 x 28.4 x 2.2 cm) with red linen spine cover and orange, grained boards. Front board printed in black, with diapositive titles and spiderweb illustration.
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Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)]
Index molluscorum maris japonici. Conscriptus et tabulis iconum xvi illustratus.
Casselis Cattorum [Kassel], Theodor Fischer, 1882. 4to (27.3 x 22.1 cm). vii, 301 pp.; 16 exquise lithographed plates of which 13 superbly hand-coloured. Near contemporary grained blue half cloth over grained burgundy cloth. Script title on the spine.
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