![Item #2249 [JAPAN] Narodnoye tvorchestvo Yaponii. Miniatyurnaya skul'ptura: nettske, maski,...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2249.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734188220)
Moscow: Nauka i prosveshcheniye, 1928. 32 pp.: ill. 24x15,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Mint, light foxing and soiling on covers, minor tears of oversized wrappers. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 500 copies. An interesting edition dedicated to Japanese folk art, published by the Soviet State Museum of..... More
![Item #2759 [ONE OF THE EARLIEST JAPANESE-RUSSIAN VOCABULARIES] Yedinstvennyy yaponsko-russkiy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2759.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779928948)
Tokyo, Osaka: Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha, 1906. [4], XII, 596, 4, [2] pp. 19x13,2 cm. Original publisher’s full-cloth binding with gilt-lettered title (in Russian) and gilt-tooled ornaments on the spine. Binding reinforced with scotch tape. Traces of a library pocket on the verso of the front cover, inventory numbers on the..... More
![Item #710 [RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS AFTER 1905] Edinstvennyi iaponsko-russkii slovar' [i.e. The...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/710.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1562881279)
Tokyo; Osaka: Marusen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 1910. [2], XII, 596, 6 pp. In original cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Scotch tape over binding, pencil underlines occasionally, p. 3-4 detached, two private stamps in Russian and Chinese on verso of Russian t.p. Otherwise very good. Third edition. Rare. The title..... More
![Item #2545 [JAPAN IN DESIGN] Sobytiya odnogo dnya [i.e. The Honorable Picnic]. Toma Roka, Thomas...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2545.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758716275)
Kyiv: kul’tura, 1928. 192 pp. 18,4x13,8 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Loss of the fragments of the spine, wrappers with tears, but otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. Original published in 1924. Translated from French by Vera Gorovskaya. The earliest Russian translation of Thomas Raucat’s..... More
![Item #532 [CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] [Japanese Lacquered Album of Fifty Original Hand-Coloured...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/532.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542804705)
Yokohama: T. Moriya, 1900-1901. 15,5x20 cm. 25 card stock leaves put together in accordion-like manner. With 50 hand coloured mounted albumen prints, each 9x13 cm. All captioned in negative in English (one with the publisher’s credentials also written in negative), thirty-seven with period ink inscriptions in French on the mounts..... More
![Item #1189 [PACIFIC – JAPAN & CRIMEAN WAR] [An Issue of the Official Magazine of the Russian...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1189.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613989005)
St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Vol. XX, No. 1. January. Large Octavo (ca. 25,5x17 cm). [2], iv, lxiv, 64, 218, 80, 32, 25 pp. With two chromolithographed plates and two lithographed maps (two folding). Original beige publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Old library stamp on verso of the title page..... More
![Item #396 [SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/396.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519382134)
1859. Ca. 1859. Ca. 54x75 cm. Black ink on rice paper, hand coloured in yellow, red, black, and grey. Extensive text in Japanese on the right and left margins. Fold marks, otherwise a very good plan. Interesting early detailed Japanese plan of the first Russian settlement on Sakhalin..... More
![Item #1095 [SOVIET-JAPANESE CONFLICTS] Samurai proschitalis’: literaturno-khudozhestvennyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1095.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604432495)
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1939. 482 pp., 15 ills. 22,5x17,5 cm. In original full-cloth with illustrations and silver lettering. Very good, some spots. First and only edition. Very rare with no copies in Worldcat. A curious example of a book design mixing Stalinist parade editions, Krokodil caricatures and chronicles of the..... More
![Item #829 [RUSSIAN FEMALE DOCTOR IN JAPAN] Ocherki sovremennoy Yaponii [i.e. Accounts of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/829.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569961398)
St. Petersburg: tipo-lit. M.F. Paykina, 1898. [4], 219 pp., 12 ill. 22.8x16.6cm. Period half-leather. Pale stamp of the private library “Pkhakadze” on the front endpaper, previous owner’s ink inscription on the front endpaper and title page, stamp of “Stavropol Spiritual School” on the title page. Otherwise good. Scarce first..... More
![Item #693 Iaponia [i.e. Japan] / edited by Mácza János. B. Denike](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/693.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559612955)
Moscow: izdatelstvo vsesoy uznoy akademii arkhitektury, 1935. 104 pp. 30x23 cm. One of 3100 copies. Original illustrated cloth binding. Small piece of the title page is missing from the top. Otherwise very good. First edition. Book design by Georg Fischer. The photobook is dedicated to architecture of Japan. The..... More
![Item #1083 [LUBOK ABOUT RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR] Chem tebia ia ogorchila! (Plach Iaponii) [i.e. How...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1083.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604425490)
St. Petersburg: Litografiia V. Ivanov i Ko, 1904. 49х37,5 cm. Very good, small fragments of blank edges lost. Very rare lithographic lubok produced during the Russo-Japanese war. The censorship approved it on April 16, 1904. The war started in early February of the same year, and by the time of..... More
![Item #1186 [PACIFIC – ALASKA, HAWAII & JAPAN] Sochineniya i Perevody [i.e. Works and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1186.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613987987)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Naval Ministry, 1864. Five vols. bound in two. Octavo (ca. 24x16 cm). Russian brown quarter sheep with brown cloth boards; spines with raised bands and gilt-lettered titles. Woodcut bookplates of a Soviet bibliophile N.S. Krovyakov on the front pastedown endpapers, pre-1917 ink library stamps (Tsarskoye..... More
![Item #397 [CHINA] Morokoshi Meisho Zue [i.e. Description of Famous Places In China]. Gyokuzan...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/397.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519382901)
Osaka: 1806. Osaka: Kawachiya Kichibei et al., Bunka 3 [1806]. 6 vols. 26x18 cm. With ca. 250 woodcut views and maps, of which approx. 170 are double-page. Original publisher’s orange wrappers each with printed paper title labels and housed in a later cloth slip case. Wrappers with some mild signs..... More
![Item #530 [CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR] 海外餘話 Kaigai-Yowa [i.e. Additional Strange Tales from...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/530.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542803469)
[Japan]: Gyoyo-do, Ansei 2 [1855]. Second, but first illustrated edition. 5 vols. T.p., 19; 24; 23; 19; 19 double-ply leaves; with 20 double-page woodblock illustrations in text. 26x18 cm. Text and illustrations within single border, main text ten vertical lines. Original Japanese fukuro toji bindings: brownish paper covers with leaves..... More
![Item #400 [YOKOHAMA PRINT] . [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Most Likely Depicting...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/400.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519383840)
Yokohama: Izumiya Ichibei, 1861. Coloured woodblock print. 37x24,5 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp ‘Issen Yoshikazu ga’, title and date on the right margin. Paper slightly age toned and soiled on extremities, otherwise a very good print. The print depicts ‘‘a photographer wearing western clothing adjusting a camera beneath a...... More
![Item #401 [YOKOHAMA PRINT] [Coloured Oban Triptych ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print, Titled:] Tokyo...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/401.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519384058)
Yokohama: Okura Magobei, 1877. Three-part coloured woodblock print (not attached, each part with printed artist’s name stamp ‘Yoshitora ga’), together ca. 35,5x73,5 cm. Minor residue of the old glue on the left and right extremities of each leaf, otherwise the print is in very good condition. Attractive Yokohama print..... More