Japan.- Brinkley (Captain Francis) Japan [&] China: Its History Arts and Literature, 12 vol., one of 500 copies, 1903-04; and others, mostly Japan (c.130)

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Japan.- Brinkley (Captain Francis) Japan [&] China: Its History Arts and Literature, 12 vol., one of 500 copies, folding map, plates, captioned tissue-guards, a few small stains, foxing or browning to some ff. mostly ff. next to plates, bookplate, original cloth, spines faded, spine ends a little bumped, t.e.g., others uncut, 1903-04 Hau Kiou Choaan or The Pleasing History, 4 vol., in 2, reissue, 4 engraved frontispieces tipped-in and laid down, advertisement f. dated 1774, vol.1 half-title only (lacking others), vol.2 lacking last few ff. of 'Additions and Corrections' and errata, some light spotting or staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [ESTC T141065], for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 [but 1774] Waley (Arthur) Japanese Poetry: The 'Uta', first edition, second issue, frontispiece, faint foxing to title, original yellow cloth, a little browned, edges uncut, Oxford, 1919; and others, mostly Japan, v.s. (c.130)

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