1. Barr, Pat.

The Coming of the Barbarians – A story of Western settlement in Japan 1853-1870.

London, Macmillan, 1967. Octavo. 236 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [Reader’s Union Edition].

2. Haberland, Detlef.

Von Lemgo nach Japan – Das ungewöhnliche Leben des Engelbert Kaempfer 1651 bis 1716.

Bielefeld, Westfalen Verlag, 1990. 19.9 cm x 30 cm. 223 pages. With many black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor wear to cover. Otherwise very clean and bright. Contains label on front endpaper ’ Bücherstube Ilona Hodes’.

3. Hillsborough, Romulus.

Shinsengumi – The Shogun’s Last Samurai Corps.

Tokyo, Rutland (Vermont), Singapore, Tuttle Publishing, 2005. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XXV, 230 pages. Illustrated with four black-and-white photographs and four maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket illustrated with photograph of miniature Shinsengumi Banner. Cover image of Samurai courtesy of Masataka Kojima. Cover design by Horuga Yakobusu. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Holborn, Mark

The Ocean in the Sand – Japan: From Landscape to Garden.

London, Gordon Fraser, 1978. 25.5 cm x 23 cm. 104 pages.Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. (Yellow ochre cloth with title embossed on front cover and on spine – display lettering by Tim Holloway). Desiged by Peter Guy. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Japan – Paul, Gregor / Pauly , Uli / O’Neill, P.G./Nitobe, Inazo.

Collection of 6 rare publications on japanese Philosophy. / Sammlung von 6 seltenen Publikationen zur japanischen Philosophie. 1. Gregor Paul – Zur Kritik Ito Jinsais an Ontologie und Ethik der Shushigaku. 36 Seiten. 2. Gregor Paul – Die Anfänge der Philosophie in Japan. 80 Seiten. 3. Gregor Paul – Zur Geschichte der Philosophie in Japan und zu ihrer Darstellung. 56 Seiten. 4. Gregor Paul – Zur Literatur der Togukawa-Zeit. 45 Seiten. 5. Uli Pauly – Sakoku – Zu den Hintergründen von Japans Weg in die nationale Abschließung unter den Togukawa. 6. Makoto Oda – Der Kommandeur. Aus dem japanischen übersetzt von Siegfried Schaarschmidt.16 Seiten.

Japan, Komiyama, 1989. Small-8°. 36, 80, 56, 45, 50, 16 pages. Kartoniert./ Paperbacks. Sehr guter Zustand.

6. Keene, Donald.

A History of Japanese Literature [Four Volume Set Complete]: Volume I: Seeds in the Heart – Japanese Literature ifrom the Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century / Volume II: World Within Walls – Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 / Volume III: Dawn to the West – Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Fiction) / Volume IV: Dawn to the West – Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Poetry, Drama, Criticism) // With a New Preface by the Author.

Four Volumes (complete). New York, Columbia University Press, 1999. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XII, 1265 pages / Volume II: XV, 606 pages / Volume III: XIII, 1329 pages / Volume IV: XV, 687 pages. Original Softcover in especially applied proective sleeves. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. Unusual in this complete set and in this excellent condition.

7. Keene, Donald.

Living in Two Countries. Edited with Notes by Masanori Toyota.

Tokyo, Asahi Press, 1987. 12.5 cm x 18 cm. 113 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

8. Kirkup, James.

Heaven, Hell and Hara-Kiri – The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Superstate.

London / Sydney / Singapore / Manila, Angus & Robertson, 1974. 14 cm x 22.2 cm. X, 278 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

9. Kumagai, Kaisaku / Nakano, Teiichiro / Ishikawa, Akira.

Collection on Japanese Law / Sammelband mit 8 Aufsätzen / Sonderdrucken von japanischen Rechtsprofessoren. Der Sammelband enthält: 1. Gerhard Lüke – Laudatio auf Teiichiro Nakano. (3 Seiten) / 2. Teiichiro Nakano – Rationalisierung der Justiz. (5 Seiten) / 3. Gerhard Lüke – Laudatio auf Akira Ishikawa. (6 Seiten) / 4. Akira Ishikawa – Die Rolle der Rechstanwaltskammer in der Reform des japanischen Justizwesens. (9 Seiten) / 5. Kaisaku Kumagai – Establishment of Theory of Japanese Law History. (20 Seiten) / 6. Kaisaku Kumagai – Le Nom de la Femme Mariée das l’Histoire Légale du Japon. (11 Seiten) / 7. Ichiro Kobashi – Japanische Rechtssprechung und Wechseltheorien. (11 Seiten) / 8. Kaisaku Kumagai – On historical conditions of the Japanese Civil Codification. (10 Seiten – Widmungsexemplar mit handschriftlicher Widmung (signiert) von Kaisaku Kumagai an Professor Wilhelm Wegener) //

Osaka / Stuttgart, Osaka University Law Review / Schaeffer Verlag, 1953-1990. 8°. Privater, neuwertiger Leinenband. Sehr guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek des Rechtshistorikers Wilhelm Wegener.

10. Lister, David, Hatori, Koshiro, LaFosse, Michael, Alexander, Richard, Lang, Robert J., Jackson, Paul.

The Art of Paperfolding. – Masters of Origami at Hangar-7.

Stuttgart, Berlin, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005. 26 cm x 29.5 cm. 160 pages, 77 colour illustrations. Photographs – on cover of ‘Flying Bulls’ by Tomoko Fuse and Frontispiece ‘OVNI’ by Vincent Floderer – Staudinger & Franke. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.