Leyden, Neth.: Pieter Vander Aa, 1727. door verscheyde Gedeeltens van Asia en Africa, in het Jarr 1581, en vervolgens. Verhalende het gevangen nemen, mitsgaders de harde en Slaaffe Dienstbaarheyd des Schrijvers, onder het wreede Jok der Turken in Egypten, en hoe hy eyndelijk, na veele uytgestane ongemakken, in sijn vryheyd is hersteld. Als Mede een Beschrijving van verscheyde Eylande, Steeden, Zee-havens, Oudheeden van Eypten, Turkyen en het Heylige Land: ook de Gewoontens, Zeden en Straf-oeffeningen deser volkeren. Door den Reysiger selfs beschreeven. Met een volkoomen Register en Konst-Printen verrijkt. Te Leyden, by Pieter Vander Aa, Boekverkoper, [1727] [72] p., engraved title page vignette, 1 leaf of a copper-plate engraved folded map: 4 in-text engravings; 36 (14 inches). Signatures: A-I4. 4to. Modern grey and brown decorative paper over boards with a modern printed black-on-grey label on the front cover reproducing part of the title page as a smaller scale, within a double-ruled border. Text is in 130 number columns. From the series of travel accounts printed by Pieter vander Aa in 1727, De Aanmerkenswaardigste en Alomberoemde See- en Land-Reizen. The author, Michael Heberer (1560-1623/33?), has been called der pfälzishe Robinson, or Robinson Crusoe of the Palatinate, because of his unlucky sea voyages recounted here. The engraved map shows Heberer's route around the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The other engravings depict a ship wreck, prisoners of the moors, the freeing of some prisoners in Alexandria, and the execution of others. Back cover of modern binding slightly soiled; otherwise in Fine Condition.. Fine.

London, Eng.: Belhaven Press, 1991. xx, 263 p.: 24 tables, 85 in-text photos and drawings; 24 cm. (9¼ inches). Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket. No price listed. Part of the World Cities series, edited by Professor R.J. Johnston and Professor P. Knox. Includes references and index. This study of the world's largest city "describes not only the challenges that Tokyo poses for city planners, and describes key projects for urban betterment, but also seeks to convey the essential texture of the city, what it is like to live there and experience the day to day life of Tokyo, citizen and visitor, both Japanese and foreign" [from the dust jacket]. The book also provides a tour of the city's districts and landmarks, from the Imperial Palace to the "forgotten slum neighbourhood clled Sanya" [from the dust jacket]. In Near Fine/Near Fine Condition: upper corners of a few pages lightly creased; pages are clean and tight; dust jacket at ends of spine lightly rubbed.. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Viking Press, 1952. Translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher. Foreword by Bernard Berenson. xii, [2], 306 p.: 60 unpaginated pages of illustrations taken by the author; two maps on front fixed endpaper; 24 cm. (9½ inches). Yellow and black cloth with red printed spine and cover titles; former owner's name written on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Includes index. 1st American Edition. A fascinating first-hand account of Tibet before it fell to China, written by a young Italian scholar who traveled there in the 1930s and 1940s. A unique and terrific book! Book is in Very Good- Condition: spine sunned; corners bumped; covers rubbed; ends of spine just starting to fray.. First American Edition. Very Good-.

Nara, Japan: Meishinsha, 1895. title page cont'd: Prepared specially for the eleven hundredth anniversary of the founding of Kyoto and the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition by the City Council of Kyoto with three maps and sixty-nine engravings. [6], 220, [12], 105, [5] p.: many leaves of single-leaf black-and-white plates, 1 double-leaf black-and-white plate, 7 double-leaf color plates (signed Sculptore Tsukamoto), 2 folded maps; 16 cm. (6¼ inches). Light grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and black and grey color illustrations. Front fixed endpaper bears a message from the printing office. Includes ads for businesses in Kyoto, some printed in color and some with illustrations including hotel ads with 7 full-page illustrations. First edition. Compiled by M. Ichihara at the request of the city council of Kyoto to celebrate Kyoto's 1100th anniversary. Six of the double-leaf color plates are striking color wood block prints of people weaving silk, embroidering and dying fabric, and making ceramics, bronzeware, and lacquerware. Lacking map to go in rear pocket; otherwise in Very Good Condition: pp. edges are rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; spine sunned and stained; pp. 7-10 detached but present, although fore-edges are chipped; 203-6 and 3 of the double-page color plates are detached as a unit, but present and intact; light damp stain along lower edge of a few pages and 2 color plates in the center of the volume; 3-cm. (1¼-inch) tear from upper edge of leaf preceeding the second p.1, without loss of text; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight. A very scarce example of a 19th-century publication aimed at the English-language tourist in Japan.. Very Good.