Asia Bookroom

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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia with smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian and secondhand books through to ephemera, prints and maps and even some new books.

We sell to private customers and institutions around the world. Join our mailing list to receive tailored offerings of new arrivals in your particular area of interest and visit our shop next time you are in Canberra.

Contact Information
Phone: +61 2 6251 5191
Website: http://www.asiabookroom.com
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Store Hours

Hours are generally:

Tuesday - Friday: 10.00 - 5.30;

Saturday: 10.00 - 5.00

Sunday: Closed

However, times can vary.

Please check our website to be sure before making a special visit.

Highlights
The Independent. [A Journal of Korean Commerce, Politics, Literature, History and Art]. Seoul, Korea, Saturday, November, 21st- Thursday, December 3rd, 1896.
$2750
W.H. Smith. Seoul. 1896. A short run of six consecutive issues of the pioneering nineteenth century Korean newspaper "The Independent" (Tongnip Sinmun), published bilingually in English and Korean from November 21st to December 3rd 1896. This newspaper was founded by the renowned Korean intellectual Soh Jaipil (Philip Jaisohn,1864-1951) and was the first in which Korean-language reports were printed solely in Hangul (Korean phonetic script), making them accessible to a relatively broad readership, including women (Soh was an advocate of political rights for women).
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Commemorative Photographic Album on the 6th Far Eastern Championship Games. 第六回極東選手權競技大會記念寫真帖.
$1250
Jiji Shinpōsha. Jūjikan. Osaka. Taisho 12 (1923). This 1923 photographic album commemorates the 6th Far Eastern Championship Games, which were held in Osaka. Participating nations were the Philippines, Republic of China, and Japan, and their national flags adorn the front cover (the Philippines is represented by the US national flag). A variety of competitions were held over several days across Osaka, including track and field, swimming, volleyball, tennis, and football.
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Photograph Album of a Japanese Soldier in 1930s Japan and Taiwan. 在学記念.
$850
Japan. (Circa 1930). A fascinating album of photos belonging to a member of the Japanese military, Nakao Fumizo 中尾文蔵, who served amongst indigenous communities in Taiwan in the mid to late 1930s. The photos are contained in an embossed album with dramatic military scenes of tanks, cavalry and infantry on the front cover with a Japanese Imperial Army insignia seal in silver.
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Novae Literar Asiae Orientalis. A New Alphabet for China and Japan.
$825
Kinsberg, J.G.H. C.E. Fritze's Royal Library. Stockholm. 1901. Scarce work by Swedish physician, veterinarian and zoologist Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg (1820-1908). This work is his noble attempt to offer a simplified transcription for Japanese and Chinese characters following the work of J. J. Hoffman (1868) and Georg V. D. Gabelentz (1881).
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Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita...
$14750
Confucius. Andreas Cramoisy for Danielem Horthemels. Paris. 1867. The first and most influential translation to be widely available in the West of the works of Confucius, with a wonderful full-page engraved portrait of him labelled the "foremost teacher under heaven".
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Woodblock Prints Showing Scenes from The Tale of Genji. 木版画. 源氏五十四帖.
$750
Yamada Shoin. Tokyo. Showa 33 (1958). This is a beautiful collection of woodblock prints featuring various scenes from the Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki. The Tale of Genji has been traditionally appreciated with beautiful illustrations and this collection was one of the more modern examples. Published in 1958 on a monthly subscription basis (receipt for the 7th envelope loosely inserted), each print is enhanced with expert interpretations in Japanese and English. A lovely collection of Genji related prints.
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One Hundred Masterpiece Ukiyo-e Prints. 浮世絵名作百版画.
$1500
Uemura, Masurō. Takamizawa Mokuhansha. Tokyo. Showa 12 (1937). A collection of one hundred delicately reproduced Japanese ukiyo-e prints and includes works by Sharaku, Utamaro, Eisen, Hiroshige, Hokusai and others.
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Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: Their History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources.
$1750
Playne, Somerset. The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co. London & New York. 1917. One of a series of publications published with the object of supplying the British public with a picture - complete as far as literary and pictorial effort could make it - of the several different parts of the Empire.
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