Far East Recent Acquisitions Summer 2025
A new selection of Japanese and Chinese books
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![Nagasaki bunken-roku. [Heard and seen in Nagasaki].](https://api.maggs.com/image/eb42c409-554d-4dee-86b1-f3bc77710dc5/616x770.webp)
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![Mitsukoshi-mae Kyobashi-kan chikatetsudo kensetsu gojigaoyo [Overview of Underground Railroad construction work between Mitsukoshi-mae and Kyobashi]](https://api.maggs.com/image/d9d1d087-bd80-4c84-aa39-7ad570e2b563/616x770.webp)
TOKYO UNDERGROUND RAILROAD COMPANY.
Mitsukoshi-mae Kyobashi-kan chikatetsudo kensetsu gojigaoyo [Overview of Underground… 1931.
£650
![Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux.
[Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e7bb9291-9f08-48d0-a5f4-06f1fd900a71/616x770.webp)
[FRENCH REVOLUTION].
Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux. [Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789], 1789.
PRINTED ON SILK BY DIDOT
£9,500
BOOK OF HOURS
Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.
FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES
£45,000
BEAUVOIR (Simone de).
Le Deuxième Sexe. Tome I. Les Faits et… 1949.
£1,750
![Izu no odoriko [The Dancing Girl of Izu]](https://api.maggs.com/image/0d250eec-affc-44f8-a4c7-a039bde017f0/616x770.webp)
KAWABATA (Yasunari).
Izu no odoriko [The Dancing Girl of Izu], 1932.
SIGNED BY JAPAN'S FIRST NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR LITERATURE
£6,800
GRAHAM (Maria).
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, 1824.
A RARE COLOURED COPY
£4,750
HEGEL (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich).
Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, 1821.
“THE OWL OF MINERVA SPREADS ITS WINGS ONLY WITH THE COMING OF THE DUSK."
£3,750
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A new selection of Japanese and Chinese books
Far East Recent Acquisitions Summer 2025
A significant group of letters and ephemera documenting some of the most important European explorers and colonial governors of East Africa and Sudan, the disruption of the slave trade, and the search of the source of the Nile
Africa - Explorers, Officers & Governors
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