£100 - £150
China. Crane (Louise) & Crane (Kent, illustrator), China in Sign and Symbol, first edition, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, 1926, half-title with a Singapore ownership inscription, rubricated title, colour and monochrome plates, original publisher's pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, foliate gilt endpapers, top edge cut, 4to; Japanese Prostitution: Becker (Joseph Ernest de), The Nightless City, or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku", fifth edition, Yokohama, et al: Max Nössler & Co., London: Probsthain & Co., n.d. [1905], half-title, folding colour map, folding plan, plates, some colour, original publisher's red pictorial cloth, recto pastedown gutter split with some movement, spine with close tear, 4to, (2)
The second work is an account of the red-light district of Tokyo.
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