[Zuan - Stencil Design Book]. Kyoto? Shōtoku 正徳 [1711 - 1716] to Meiji Gannen 明治元年 [1868]. 24.7 x 17.7cm volume of design patterns string bound fukuro toji. Hand printed sample stencil sample book assembled by a dyeing house in Kyoto. A total of 507 monochrome designs, from single to multiple..... More
Zuijin Guowen Jiaokeshu 最新国文教科書. circa 1904. Shanghai? [Commercial Press 商務印書館]. 22 x 13.5cm String bound fukuro toji with 59 cho, complete as such. A small Chinese schoolbook from the early 20th century. Chinese text with over 70 charming monochrome wood engravings that illustrate each lesson. Introduction and index in Chinese..... More
1847. [PERIODICALS] THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, VOL. IX, NO. XVII PART 2, 1847. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1847. 8vo, printed wrappers. Good, some chipping to wrappers. Articles on Persian poets, Hindu kings. More
1946. FERVAL, Claude. POEMES: LA TRACE DE SES PAS DERNIERS VERS. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1946. 274 pp. 4to., wrappers. Very good. 1 inch closed tear to bottom of spine; light foxing to wrappers, endpapers. Top edge unopened. In original glassine dust jacket, which is quite chipped at spine... More
1870. 19TH CENTURY. TUDOR WHARVES ICE: THE SHIPS ANAHUAC, LUCY S. WILLS AND ANNA DECATUR. (Photographer unknown). ca. 1870. Matted framed original photograph (matted to 11 x 17 inches). Diagonal vista: The ships Anahuac, Lucy S. Wills and Anna Decatur load ice at the Tudor Wharves, Charlestown, Massachusetts. The first..... More
1893. [19th Century]. photograph - portrait and letter: Phillips Brooks silver gelatin[?] print measures 4" x 5.5". Reverse side of card dates the photograph "Copyrighted 1893 by H G Smith, Boston, MA." and includes studio's logo. photograph is clean and includes second card with a letter by Brooke, a notable..... More
1869. [19th CENTURY]. PHOTOGRAPH OF ADMIRAL D. G. FARRAGUT. 1869. measures 3.5" by 5". photograph originally frontispiece for OUR ADMIRAL'S FLAG ABROAD THE CRUISE OF ADMIRAL D.G. FARRAGUT, COMMANDING THE EUROPEAN SQUADRON IN 1867-1868. photograph is clean and sheet shows only minor aging. An interesting specimen. More
1934. [PREWAR ARCHITECTURE] TAKASUGI Mikitaro, editor. JUTAKU KENCHIKU Kensho Sekkei Zuanshu. Tokyo, Kenchiku Gakkai, Showa 9 [1934]. 8vo., printed wrappers. This book of award-winning designs for domestic architecture has forty plus pages of designs and projections. Very good condition. More
1901. AN UNCOMMON SET COMPLETE KINGSLEY, CHARLES. CHARLES KINGSLEY, HIS LETTERS AND MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE. London and New York: Macmillan Co., 1901. Limited edition of 525 copies; complete in 19 volumes. Frontispieces in first four volumes. 8vo., red cloth stamped and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine..... More
19. [KAKEMONO] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. A BOATMAN. Hanging scroll, image size 138.8 X 27.6 cm. Beautifully mounted. Wooden scroll box. The painting is signed and sealed by Sekka (1866-1942), the foremost master of Rimpa painting in the 20th Century in Japan. Sekka's boatman depicted here is encountered often in his..... More
1896. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTIFUL BOOK. Illustrated by W. S. HADAWAY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1896. 8vo., tan leather stamped in brown, with two green ribbon ties on each fore-edge, front and rear. Endpapers have offset tanning. Moderate wear to edges. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's personal bookplate on..... More
1922. Stewart, Basil. SUBJECTS PORTRAYED IN JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS.... New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1922. Folio, xvi, 382pp. Grey paper covered boards backed in tan cloth, leather title label in gilt. With reproductions of over 270 prints (22 in colour). A very good copy that shows some soiling at..... More
1916. ADAMS, Charles Francis. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS 1835-1915: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WITH A MEMORIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED NOVEMBER 17, 1915, BY HENRY CABOT LODGE. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1916. 4th printing. 224 pp. 8vo., black cloth stamped in gilt with embossed cover vignette. Ex-library with no external..... More
1904. [DESIGN] Shimomura Tamahiro, designer. SEKAI SARASA 2 vols. Kyoto, Unkindo^, 22.3 x 31.3 cm., Meiji 37 [1904]. 2 vols., Tassel-bound in decorated paper covers, fukuro-toji. 27 full page color woodcut plates of cotton chintz designs from around the world. Nicely printed, very good condition. More
1882. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Sr. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. 17 lines, 1 1/2 pages, octavo. Written from Beverly Farms, [Massachusetts], September 19th, 1882, and addressed to the writer and editor H. E. Scudder. Holmes states that he is busy making arrangements for lectures at present and "had better not make any..... More
1933. (FRENCH LITERATURE). LE LIVRE DE DEMAIN. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1933 - 1938. 23 vols. 4to., decorated yellow paper wraps. A selection of 23 vols. from this series that includes works by Georges Duhamel, Gustave Flaubert, Colette, Georges Immann, Andre Gide, and others. Each vol. illustrated throughout with original..... More
1917. MORSE, Edward S. JAPAN DAY BY DAY: 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83. Boston: Mifflin Company, Cambridge: The University Press, 1917. First edition. Two volumes: xiv, [2], 441; [6], 453 pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece in each volume and throughout with many b&w text illustrations by the author. Large 8vo., grey..... More
1808. NOEL, Fr. DICTIONARIUM LATINO-GALLICUM | DICTIONNAIRE LATIN-FRANCAIS. Paris: Chez le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1808. Second edition. [viii] + 1026 pp. + 8 pp. publisher's ads. Thick 8vo., vellum with gilt red paper spine label. Vellum is lettered on both boards in ink, mostly illegible, not unpleasant. Ink ownership to front..... More
1814. [EHON] Sato SUISEKI. SUISEKI GAFU. Bunka 11 [1814]. 25.6 X 18.8 cm. This copy of the first series of Suiseki's gafu of figures is a classic of the Shijo genre, universally praised. [See Mitchell pp 505,6; Hillier Vol.2, pp. 753-6; Holloway 51; Ryerson 379; Brown p.93] This copy is..... More
1924. MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi. MIZUE, No. 217. Tokyo, Taisho 13 [1924]. Wrappers, 8vo. This issue of the important art journal MIZUE is notable for the inclusion of a 5 page article by avant-garde artist and critic, Murayama Tomoyoshi, entitled "KIKAITEKI YOSO NO GEIJUTSU E NO DONYU" ["THE PATH TO A CONSTRUCTIVIST..... More
1933. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 12, #2. Tokyo, February 1933. 26.0 x 18.7 cm There are 32 color pages on heavy paper with work by such artists as Takei himself, Maeshima Tomo, Kawakami Shiro^, Kumatani Motoichi, and many others. There is also a 20 page flimsy..... More
1954. ZENGER, John Peter. ZENGER'S OWN STORY: A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE CASE AND TRYAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER PRINTER OF THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL: A LITERAL REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET PRINTED BY ZENGER IN NEW YORK IN 1736. 45 pp. 4to., b/w patterned paper covered boards with printed paper..... More
1851. A BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. Illustrated by John Leech. (London): Bradbury, Evans, and Co., (1851). First edition bound from original parts. Illustrated with 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and with smaller wood engravings in text. Octavo. xii,308 pp. Full calf skillfully rebacked, with decoratively gilt-tooled..... More
1859. (A Reporter of the New York Press). MATRIMONIAL BROKERAGE IN THE METROPOLIS; Being True Narratives of Strange Adventures in New York, and Startling Facts in City Life. New York: Thatcher & Hutchinson, 1859. First editon. Illustrated. 8vo., brown cloth stamped in blind; spine in gilt. Spine is sunned, slight..... More