Reddit reviews Eirakuya Toshiro, publisher at Nagoya: A contribution to the history of publishing in 19th century Japan (Japonica Neerlandica)

A bunch of other people have already brought a ton of great information to this discussion - thank you paulieslim and jeffh4!

It looks like a complete copy sold relatively recently at a local art dealer, although no price is listed (but given the relative pricing of other Hokusai ehon on their site, I'd guess that this would sell for about a thousand dollars or so (although it would probably sell for less than that to a dealer or at auction) -- also assuming that this is an early edition and not a later reproduction):
http://www.rarebook.com/index.php/component/content/article/81-catalogue-39a?start=1

It's a very bad idea to look at the price-per-page from one deal and extrapolate up to the price-per-book. It's almost never the case that it's worth exactly that much, usually much less, even.

If you want to know exactly how much it's worth you're probably going to have to send pictures to a dealer - I strongly recommend the people at rarebook.com, I visited their shop last week and they're very reputable.

Specifically, in order to identify exactly what version of the book you have they'll need to see inside the cover and look at the material included in the back of the book. Most ehon of that time included advertisements - and based upon the contents of those advertisements they'll be able to date it rather precisely. For example, if an ad in the back says "Be sure to buy the new print series by Hokusai called '36 Views of Mount Fuji'" then they'll be able to date it to 1830 (which is when that series was first published).

If you want to date the book yourself it's going to cost you a pretty penny as you'll need this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Eirakuya-Toshiro-publisher-Nagoya-contribution/dp/9070265184

That book is particularly interesting as it's the bibliography compiled by a book dealer in Japan from the late 1800s. It seems like this guy handled just about every rare book to ever be published in Japan and wrote down precise information about the versions and appearance. This particular book, on Amazon, is a translated version of that book. (I got to flip through this book just the other day when I visited the Boston Book Company, neat stuff.)

Looks like there is a book all about this particular series:
http://www.amazon.com/Hokusai-One-Hundred-Views-Fuji/dp/0807611956

To give you a bit of perspective on what you're seeing here: This is a Japanese Woodblock print book (which is a sub-category of what is referred to a 'Ehon', picture books). The prints are designed by an artist (in this case, the famous Hokusai) and then carved by professional carvers (and then printed by professional printers). This book series was almost certainly created as a result of the popularity of Hokusai's famous 36 Views of Mount Fuji (the one with the great wave).

Hokusai first started to publish the 36 Views print series in 1830. It was incredibly successful - in part due to his portrayal of the subject matter - but also because it was one of the first prints to make extensive use of Prussian Blue (a new ink import from China and Europe).

While this particular ehon doesn't have any color, it certainly does have the fascinating charisma and design that is ever-present in Hokusai's work.

Edo-era ehon were created as low-cost ways for people to get complete collections of their favorite prints. Since the prints were only in black it made it very easy to mass produce. (Most color prints were a mixture of black line and color prints - oftentimes publishers would do print runs of just the black line prints as a way to sell cheaper prints more efficiently.)

Anyway you slice it, and I would contact Boston Book Company to confirm this, you have a very cool piece of classical Edo-era design. If I owned it, I wouldn't sell it, but that's just me ;)