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12mo (each ca. 100 x 150 mm). 7 vols., complete. I: 55 ff.; one volvelle. II: 46 ff. with 4 double-page maps; one volvelle. III: 62 ff. with a folding map and a volvelle. IV: 81 ff. V: 97 ff. VI: 94 ff. VII: 113 ff. Leaves mostly folded at the fore-edge in the traditional Japanese way. Each volume with engraved title-page in English and Japanese; nearly every page illustrated, mostly captioned in English, printed by the relief metal-cut method (Bewick's technique). Publisher's original bindings with pictorial boards (Japanese front boards), chromolithographic printing to covers; publisher's gilt logo on the rear covers ("Awoki Szandow Osaka Bookselling"). Black cloth spines. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a modern chitsu case with Japanese and English titles and two horn clasps: stored in two fitted boxes within the case, with ribbons and removable supports. Complete set of rare Japanese travel books (meisho-zue) from the early Meiji phase, featuring pretty illustrations with English captions and movable diagrams in every volume detailing the different time zones, attached by a neat knot of silk. The series takes the reader around the world, offering detailed descriptions and historical insights, along with illustrations printed using a new method (Bewick's technique). - In volume I, Aoki takes his readers to North America, with some mentions of Honolulu and Tokyo. Volumes II and III deal with Western Europe, while Volume IV details Central and Eastern Europe and the Arctic. In volume V, Africa and Australia are illustrated, while India and the Middle East (with views of Mecca and Medina) are described in vol. VI. The final volume is dedicated to Asia, with a focus on China, Burma and Singapore (cf. Franklin, pp. 137-139). - The publication reflects Japan's newly acquired freedom to travel abroad after three centuries of bans. Aoki seized the opportunity to publish an overarching set of 'meisho-zue', with appealing English captions to each image, including a few unfortunate misspellings (for instance, "Strfft of San Francisco", Vol. I, p. 10) or misunderstandings (ostriches presented as camels, Vol. V, pp. 81-83). - The 'meisho-zue' genre developed between the 17th and the 18th century, and, as travel was discouraged even within Japan before the Meiji phase, there would have been slight demand for them at the beginning. As Japan opened to the world, such books offered a unique and effective way to explore other parts of Japan and, with this set, the rest of the world as well. These books were typically illustrated with ukiyo-e or shijo, so the present collection, with its new metal-cut printing method and broader content, was definitely unique and outstanding. - Three volumes contain an interactive volvelle diagram showing the various time zones discussed in it, titled "The Table of Hour of Each Country City". Held by a silk string, a movable paper disk features the names of cities around the world on top of a clock. - A rare and outstanding early Meiji-phase travel book, with admirable illustrations and in good condition. - Minor rubbing and light soiling or staining to boards. Some foxing to interior; some leaves splitting at fore-edge. Volumes erroneously numbered in pencil in top left corner of each front cover. Volvelle in vol. II loose. - 1) Ownership label on rear endpaper "H. W. Cave & Co. Limited Printers" (the bookseller and printer Henry William Cave, 1854-1913, based in Sri Lanka). - 2) Passed down to a French private collection. - Colin Franklin, Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls (Book Club of California, 1999), pp. 136-140. OCLC 1020931445.…

[Osaka 1890, Ueda]. Black cloth spine over colored boards, very good, co-author B.[Unsai] Ueda [Wyeda sic]. 116p., 9.5 x 15 cm., Japanese text, English captions, spine, inside gutter mended, else solid. OBSCURE FIRST & ONLY EDITION An excellent set of early monographs, written for the new era of Japanese who began to travel the world. Each text is therefore in Japanese, with additional captions in English. Each volume covering a different geographical area of the world, complete set consist of seven volumes. The set is arranged to start with volume one and each successive volume continues from where the previous volume left off. This work is one of the earliest detailed travel guides to the world in Japanese. Quaint work with much charm ! * NOTE: We may only have separate volumes from the whole set, so please each entry READ CAREFULLY ! * ILLUSTRATED PROFUSELY: Nearly every page has an etched illustration, either full or half-page. World famous places and their sights are described and illustrated. The front covers are nicely printed in chromolithographic colors. The backs show the logo of "Awoki Szandow Osaka Bookselling," printed in gold. The internal illustrations are of copper or steel etching type, and are of high quality, fine line. * CO-AUTHOR: The co-author was J. Susuka. * CONTENTS OF THE COMPLETE SET CONSISTS OF SEVEN VOLUMES: Volume 1: Americas: San Francisco, Chicago, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. * Volume 2: London, exhibition at Kensington, Regent Street, Surrey, Zoological gardens, Vauxhall Gardens, Windsor Castle, Regent's Park, Temple Bar Gate, Crystal Palace, Tower of London, hunting slaves & slave trade, New Market, Westminster Abbey, St. James' Park, St. Paul's, Suspension bridges: Hammersmith & Hungerford; map of England & Wales., Charing Cross: Liverpool, Edinburgh Castle, Mersey, prison interior, Glasgow, Clyde River, Dublin, Nelson's Pillar, Lisbon, Oporto, bull fight, Spain, earthquake, Madrid, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Granada, Sevilla, Leaning tower at Saragossa, Barcelona, Marseilles & Lyons. With "The Table of Hour of the Situation of Every Cities Around the World" actually a very nice engraved, movable clock showing world cities, night vs. day, * Volume 3: Arctic, Iceland, St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Italy and Switzerland * Volume 4: Egypt, South Africa and Australia Asia. * Volume 5: France, Holland and Germany. * Volume 6: Southeast Asia: Ceylon, Buddhist images, India, Cabool, tiger hunting, indigo, fakirs, Hindoos, French conquest of Madras, Clive in India, Hyderbad, Benares, Sanchi, Bombey, Lueknow, Taj Mahar, Delhi, Lahore, women of Amritsar, Elephanta, views of foreigners stretching their tents in the Himalaya, Kot Kangra Himalayas: Border with Tibet, Cashmere & Ladakh. * Volume 7: Burma, Mandalay, Burmese costume, Buddhist temples, palaces, white elephants, British flag over Burma, Great temple at Ava; raised villages of Malaya, beautiful women of Malacca, view of the port of Singapore, views of Bangkok, King & Queen of Siam, their palace, Siamese aristocrats, Siamese women, Ayutha, elephants; bivouac of M. Mouhot in the forest, Lao women, rhinos, old Vietnam [Tonking], Luang Prabang, Cambodia, Laos, Annam [Viet Nam], China the Great Wall, types of Chinese women, substantial guide to China, Chinese justice, punishment, Peking temples, pagodas, great architecture; Korea, guide to the land, people and language; Japan: Nagasaki, Takashima mines, Kobe port, with a very excellent engraving of Awoki's book shop in Osaka showing Japanese and foreign people browsing ! Shinsai bridge, Osaka castle, Nakanojima park &c. Contains 224 pages, 146 engravings, Japanese and some English captions. * NOTE: The set was first issued in a 5 volume work, later the author added two additional volumes, thus some catalogers were not aware of the last two so the volume numbering varies. See our website scan illus02.jpg for a copy of the colophon of the seven volume set. * BINDING: Each volume is uniformly bound, with a brow.…

Osaka [1886] Awoki Szandow. Black cloth spine over boards, very good, Europe Vol.2 only, profuse etchings/illustrations 92p. double-folded leaves, clean and solid, with movable clock showing world city times. FIRST EDTION R A R E An excellent set of early monographs, written for the new era of Japanese who began to travel the world. Each text is therefore in Japanese, with additional captions in English. Each volume covering a different geographical area of the world, complete set consist of seven volumes. The set is arranged to start with volume one and each successive volume continues from where the previous volume left off. This work is one of the earliest detailed travel guides to the world in Japanese. Quaint work with much charm ! * NOTE: We may only have separate volumes from the whole set, so please each entry READ CAREFULLY ! * ILLUSTRATED PROFUSELY: Nearly every page has an etched illustration, either full or half-page. World famous places and their sights are described and illustrated. The front covers are nicely printed in chromolithographic colors. The backs show the logo of "Awoki Szandow Osaka Bookselling," printed in gold. The internal illustrations are of copper or steel etching type, and are of high quality, fine line. * CO-AUTHOR: The co-author was J. Susuka. * CONTENTS OF THE COMPLETE SET CONSISTS OF SEVEN VOLUMES: Volume 1: Americas: San Francisco, Chicago, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. * Volume 2: London, exhibition at Kensington, Regent Street, Surrey, Zoological gardens, Vauxhall Gardens, Windsor Castle, Regent's Park, Temple Bar Gate, Crystal Palace, Tower of London, hunting slaves & slave trade, New Market, Westminster Abbey, St. James' Park, St. Paul's, Suspension bridges: Hammersmith & Hungerford; map of England & Wales., Charing Cross: Liverpool, Edinburgh Castle, Mersey, prison interior, Glasgow, Clyde River, Dublin, Nelson's Pillar, Lisbon, Oporto, bull fight, Spain, earthquake, Madrid, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Granada, Sevilla, Leaning tower at Saragossa, Barcelona, Marseilles & Lyons. With "The Table of Hour of the Situation of Every Cities Around the World" actually a very nice engraved, movable clock showing world cities, night vs. day, * Volume 3: Arctic, Iceland, St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Italy and Switzerland * Volume 4: Egypt, South Africa and Australia Asia. * Volume 5: France, Holland and Germany. * Volume 6: Southeast Asia: Ceylon, Buddhist images, India, Cabool, tiger hunting, indigo, fakirs, Hindoos, French conquest of Madras, Clive in India, Hyderbad, Benares, Sanchi, Bombey, Lueknow, Taj Mahar, Delhi, Lahore, women of Amritsar, Elephanta, views of foreigners stretching their tents in the Himalaya, Kot Kangra Himalayas: Border with Tibet, Cashmere & Ladakh. * Volume 7: Burma, Mandalay, Burmese costume, Buddhist temples, palaces, white elephants, British flag over Burma, Great temple at Ava; raised villages of Malaya, beautiful women of Malacca, view of the port of Singapore, views of Bangkok, King & Queen of Siam, their palace, Siamese aristocrats, Siamese women, Ayutha, elephants; bivouac of M. Mouhot in the forest, Lao women, rhinos, old Vietnam [Tonking], Luang Prabang, Cambodia, Laos, Annam [Viet Nam], China the Great Wall, types of Chinese women, substantial guide to China, Chinese justice, punishment, Peking temples, pagodas, great architecture; Korea, guide to the land, people and language; Japan: Nagasaki, Takashima mines, Kobe port, with a very excellent engraving of Awoki's book shop in Osaka showing Japanese and foreign people browsing ! Shinsai bridge, Osaka castle, Nakanojima park &c. Contains 224 pages, 146 engravings, Japanese and some English captions. * NOTE: The set was first issued in a 5 volume work, later the author added two additional volumes, thus some catalogers were not aware of the last two so the volume numbering varies. See our website scan illus02.jpg for a copy of the colophon of the seven volume set. * BINDING: Each volume is uniformly bound, with a brown.…

Osaka [1886] Awoki Szandow. Black cloth spine over boards, very good, South Asia vol.6 only, 182 double-folded pages, profuse etchings/illustrations, 9.5 x 15 cm., marbled edges, FIRST EDITION OBSCURE & R A R E An excellent set of early monographs, written for the new era of Japanese who began to travel the world. Each text is therefore in Japanese, with additional captions in English. Each volume covering a different geographical area of the world, complete set consist of seven volumes. The set is arranged to start with volume one and each successive volume continues from where the previous volume left off. This work is one of the earliest detailed travel guides to the world in Japanese. Quaint work with much charm ! * NOTE: We may only have separate volumes from the whole set, so please each entry READ CAREFULLY ! * ILLUSTRATED PROFUSELY: Nearly every page has an etched illustration, either full or half-page. World famous places and their sights are described and illustrated. The front covers are nicely printed in chromolithographic colors. The backs show the logo of "Awoki Szandow Osaka Bookselling," printed in gold. The internal illustrations are of copper or steel etching type, and are of high quality, fine line. * CO-AUTHOR: The co-author was J. Susuka. * CONTENTS OF THE COMPLETE SET CONSISTS OF SEVEN VOLUMES: Volume 1: Americas: San Francisco, Chicago, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. * Volume 2: London, exhibition at Kensington, Regent Street, Surrey, Zoological gardens, Vauxhall Gardens, Windsor Castle, Regent's Park, Temple Bar Gate, Crystal Palace, Tower of London, hunting slaves & slave trade, New Market, Westminster Abbey, St. James' Park, St. Paul's, Suspension bridges: Hammersmith & Hungerford; map of England & Wales., Charing Cross: Liverpool, Edinburgh Castle, Mersey, prison interior, Glasgow, Clyde River, Dublin, Nelson's Pillar, Lisbon, Oporto, bull fight, Spain, earthquake, Madrid, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Granada, Sevilla, Leaning tower at Saragossa, Barcelona, Marseilles & Lyons. With "The Table of Hour of the Situation of Every Cities Around the World" actually a very nice engraved, movable clock showing world cities, night vs. day, * Volume 3: Arctic, Iceland, St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Italy and Switzerland * Volume 4: Egypt, South Africa and Australia Asia. * Volume 5: France, Holland and Germany. * Volume 6: Southeast Asia: Ceylon, Buddhist images, India, Cabool, tiger hunting, indigo, fakirs, Hindoos, French conquest of Madras, Clive in India, Hyderbad, Benares, Sanchi, Bombey, Lueknow, Taj Mahar, Delhi, Lahore, women of Amritsar, Elephanta, views of foreigners stretching their tents in the Himalaya, Kot Kangra Himalayas: Border with Tibet, Cashmere & Ladakh. * Volume 7: Burma, Mandalay, Burmese costume, Buddhist temples, palaces, white elephants, British flag over Burma, Great temple at Ava; raised villages of Malaya, beautiful women of Malacca, view of the port of Singapore, views of Bangkok, King & Queen of Siam, their palace, Siamese aristocrats, Siamese women, Ayutha, elephants; bivouac of M. Mouhot in the forest, Lao women, rhinos, old Vietnam [Tonking], Luang Prabang, Cambodia, Laos, Annam [Viet Nam], China the Great Wall, types of Chinese women, substantial guide to China, Chinese justice, punishment, Peking temples, pagodas, great architecture; Korea, guide to the land, people and language; Japan: Nagasaki, Takashima mines, Kobe port, with a very excellent engraving of Awoki's book shop in Osaka showing Japanese and foreign people browsing ! Shinsai bridge, Osaka castle, Nakanojima park &c. Contains 224 pages, 146 engravings, Japanese and some English captions. * NOTE: The set was first issued in a 5 volume work, later the author added two additional volumes, thus some catalogers were not aware of the last two so the volume numbering varies. See our website scan illus02.jpg for a copy of the colophon of the seven volume set. * BINDING: Each volume is uniformly bound, with a brown cloth spine, over c.…