East Asia. China: Polo (Marco) & Yule (Colonel Henry, CB...

East Asia. China: Polo (Marco) & Yule (Colonel Henry, CB, translator & editor), The Book of Ser Marco Polo, The Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, two volume set, first edition thus, London: John Murray, 1871, with all inserted mixed process full-page and folding plates and maps as called for, of which volume I's frontispiece & the final folding plan and volume II's title & frontispiece (i.e. The Ruc's Egg being bound in and not in a pocket as issued) have been linen backed, volume I's folding plate at cxxxiv (i.e. Probable view of Marco Polo's Own Geography) bound in volume II verso, ex-library copy, most plates with their blind-stamps, occasional ink stamps elsewhere, 20th c brown half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo; Kijima (Takashi), Yoshitsune Senbonzakura (義経千本桜)/Keys to the Japanese Mind, four volume set, first edition thus, Tokyo: Fuinei Kazuo, 1981, parallel Japanese & English text, original publisher's cloth over boards, case en suite, oblong 4to; Keyes (Roger), The Art of Surimono: Privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, two volume set, Sotheby, 1985, colour and monochrome illustrations, original pictorial dustjackets over red cloth, slipcase en suite, folio; Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, including Korea and Formosa, 1926, frontispiece, folding maps, adverts, original cloth, somewhat worn, 12mo; Gilmour (Rev. James, London Mission, Peking), Among the Mongols, first edition, London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. [1882], folding map, illustrations, original pictorial red cloth gilt, 8vo; Hiroshige; etc., (12)

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