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279. DENTSU INC. 100 Seasonal paintings of Japan. Japan.
Dentsu inc. 1991. £98
folio, original green silk lettered in gilt on spine with paper label
on upper board. 100 colour illustrations. Text in Japanese and
English. A fine copy in original slipcase.
first edition. printed to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the
founding of dentsu Inc, publishers of calenders depicting
reproductions of famous works of art. A lavish promotional volume
with many folding plates.
280. EVANS, Robley D. An Admiral’s Log. Being
continued recollections of naval Life. New York and london:
D. Appleton and Company, 1910. £45
8vo. Original cloth, gilt, coat of arms in gilt and silver to upper
cover; pp. xi, 467; photo. illusts.; cloth slightly marked on upper
cover, a little dusty, else very good.
first edition. The author had previously written a volume of
autobiography entitled A Sailor’s log, to which the present volume
is a sequel. Evans’ service included audiences with the Emperor of
Japan and the Empress dowager of china, when he was stationed
in china. There are several chapters on Evans’ time in Asia
(including a voyage up the Yangtze, and a visit to the philippines),
as well as on the West Indies and South America.
281. GILL, Stephen. European Eyes on Japan. Japan Today
vol. 9. Tokyo, eU-Japan Fest Japan Committee, 2007. £28
Small 4to. Three vols. Original stiff card wrappers, presented in a
card slipcase, fine.
first edition. photograph essays by cuny Janssen, Stephen Gill and
nicu Ilfoveanu, taken between October 2006 and March 2007.
commenced in 1999 the project “European Eyes on Japan” takes
as its theme “contemporary people and the way they live”. Each
volume is devoted to a different city or prefecture from the
viewpoint of a European photographer or photographers - the focus
of the present volume is Kagoshima
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