1811. ABERNETHY, John. SURGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORIGIN AND TREATMENT OF LOCAL DISEASES; AND ON ANEURISMS. ON DISEASES RESEMBLING SYPHILIS; AND ON DISEASES OF THE URETHRA. Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson; Fry and Kammerer, Printer, 1811. Offered with: SURGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE INJURIES OF THE HEAD; AND ON MISCELLANEOUS... More
1849. BEECHER, [Catharine]. MISS BEECHER'S DOMESTIC RECEIPT BOOK: DESIGNED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO HER TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Third edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Early printing of the third edition. Wood-engraved text illustrations. [2],xiii,306,[2],24 pp., + 8 pp. ads. 12mo., publisher's brown cloth, gilt-stamped title at spine, sides... More
1917. [BOTANICAL] Tanigami Kônan, artist. Seiyô SÔKA ZUFU. Kyoto: Unsodo, Taisho 6 [1917]. 5 volumes. Orihon folding albums, each 27.8 x 18.8 cm, in boards with printed paper title labels. There are two "Spring" volumes, bound separately, two "Summer" volumes, then "Fall" & "Winter" are bound together, each with the... More
1827. [BOTANICAL] Toneri Shigetaka [1779-1847] SÔMOKU SEIFU; YÛDOKU SÔMOKU ZUSETSU. [Nagoya], Eirakuya Tôshirô, Bunsei 10 [1827]. 5 volumes, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji, original printed paper title labels. 28.3 x 19.2 cm. Perfect condition. An interesting illustrated work (some color) on poisonous plants. Found at Kerlen 1657,1895. Complete. In a modern... More
1933. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 12, #2. Tokyo, February 1933. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous... More
1927. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI Number 7 from Volume Six. Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 & 12. Sho^wa 2 [1927] Tôkyôsha, Tôkyô. Each bound in wrappers, 25.8 x 18.8 cm. On quality paper, printed in color throughout. Kodomo no Kuni (The Land of... More
[DESIGN]. SAIKÔKYÛ MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHONCHO NP, ND [Japan, 1960s?]. 16.3 X 24.5 cm. Leatheroid covers, 23 pages of 5.5 x 8 cm designs for matchbox covers, done in a "mirrorcoat" process of relief printing. One sample clipped for color matching. The back covers is loosening. Overall, a good copy... More
1902. [DESIGN] KADOKAWA Keishû, designer. YACHIGUSA Maki no Shichi. Suso Moyô no Bu. Kyoto, Honda Unkindô. Meiji 35 [1902]. 25 x 17.8 cm., string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji, title label printed directly on the patterned covers. Part 7 of a series of kimono designs, published by the important design house, Unkindô. This... More
1934. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA. UTA-E Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo, Showa 9 [1934]. 1 volume, 31 x 22 cm, cloth, ribbon bound covers, paper label. 25 color full page images after designs by Sekka. As Sekka's last work, it crowns his remarkable career with a lovely evocation of Koetsu's Saga-bon. (For... More
1911. [DESIGN] Shirokiya Department Store. 38 COVERS FROM RYÛKÔ MAGAZINE. Tokyo, Taisho era design, done by the design staff, including Furuta Tachiji, of Shirokiya Department store for this, their monthly magazine. Here we have a group of 38 front covers, removed from the original magazines. They were trimmed by a.... More
1901. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHÛ, artist. CHÛGAKU SHÛGAJO 7-kan Jô Tôkyô, Yoshikawa Kôbunkan, Meiji 34 [1901]. 4th printing. Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.2 x 26.3 cm. PRACTICE ALBUM FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL, Volume Seven, Part One. Containing 5 sheets of color woodcut reproducing watercolor sketches from part one of volume seven and... More
1903. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHÛ, artist. JIZAIGA KYÔKASHO Dai Yonpen. Tôkyô, Kinkôdô Shoseki, Meiji 36 [1903]. 1st printing. Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.6 x 26.5 cm. This fourth volume of the series A TEXTBOOK OF FREE SKETCHING contains 10 sheets of sumi woodcut reproducing pencil sketches by Asai Chû and meant... More
1877. DUTT, Udoy Chand. THE MATERIA MEDICA OF THE HINDUS COMPILED FROM SANSKRIT MEDICAL WORKS, WITH A GLOSSARY OF INDIAN PLANTS. Clacutta, Thacer, Spink & Co., 1877. 354 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, blindstamped front and back. Spine repaired with cloth tape. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Bookplate to ffep, library... More
1887. (EHON) KAWANABE Kyôsai [Gyôsai] GYÔSAI GADAN. Tokyo: Iwamoto Shun, Meiji 20 [1887]. 25.4 x 17.6 cm. 4 volumes, string-bound Japanese-style in printed covers with paper labels. All in a folding clasped chitsu box with a colorful woodblock printed label. Printed in sumi and light colors throughout. This famous artist's... More
1810. [EHON] Ôhara Minsei, editor. MEISÛ GAFU. Wakayama: Nanreikan, n.d. [c.1810] 4 volumes, 25.2 x 17.6 cm. String-bound Japanese-style, light brown paper covers, original title labels. Good impressions throughout with very slight browning. Mostly b+w with a few color illustrations. Our copy differs from the copy in Mitchell [pp.413, 414]... More
18. [EHON] Hatta KOSHÛ, artist. KOSHÛ GAFU. N.P., N.D. [Kyoto: Yoshidaya Shimbei?]. String bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji with original blue-grey covers embossed with interlocking octagons, title slip replaced with brushed title. 33 sheets, 5 pp. preface with 30 sheets of color illustrations in Shijo style and a one sheet closing... More
1820. [EHON] Kawamura BUMPÔ, artist. KIMPAEN GAFU. Kyoto: Hishiya Magobei, Bunka [zodiacal date corresponding to 1820]. 25 x 17.4 cm. Green covers stamped with octagonal patterning (replaced?), without the title slip. The bibliographical details of this copy correspond to the copy at Mitchell p. 362-3, save for the color of... More
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1766. [EHON] Tsukioka Settei. EHON SAGASHIGUSA [ONNA BUYÛ YOSO-OI KURABE]. Edo: Suharaya Mohei & Osaka: Ono Kihei, Meiwa 3 [1766]. 3 vols in one, string-bound Japanese-style in later covers with brushed title label. 26.8 X 18.4 cm, appears to be complete as gappon. Settei here signs himself Tsukioka Masanobu. One... More
19. FLORENZ, Dr. Karl. JAPANISCHE MYTHOLOGIE. NIHONGI. "ZEITALTER DER GOTTER" Tokyo: Hobunsha, 1901. 8vo. IX, 341pp + Plates. In wrappers, published as "SUPPLEMENT Der 'Mittheilungen' Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fuer Natur- Und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens." A translation of the first two books of the Nihongi and related texts into German by Florenz... More
1781. FONTANA, Felix. TRAITE SUR LE VENIN DE LA VIPERE SUR LES POISONS AMERICAINS SUR LE LAURIER-CERISE ET SUR QUELQUES AUTRES POISONS VEGETAUX. ON Y A JOINT DES OBSERVATIONS SUR LA STRUCTURE PRIMITIVE DU CORPS ANIMAL. DIFFERENTES EXPERIENCES SUR LA REPRODUCTION DES NERFS ET LA DESCRIPTION D'UN NOUVEAU CANAL DE... More
1935. Ômichi Hirô, editor. Nijûni-kai NIKA GASHÛ. Ôsaka, Asahi Shinbunsha, Shôwa 10 [1935]. 38.1 x 26.5 cm. Folio, printed wrappers. Profusely illustrated with b+w photo illustrations of art exhibited in the 22nd annual Nikakai exhibition in 1935. Very good condition. An interesting resource on this important group. More
1856. (PERRY, M. C.) HAWKS, Francis L. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1852, 1853, AND 1854, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE M. C. PERRY, UNITED STATES NAVY, BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. New... More
1858. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Compnay, 1858. First edition, second printing, as decribed in BAL. Illustrated with 8 plates. 8vo. viii,373,[1], + [2] pp. publisher's adv. Bound by Stikeman & Co. in half, polished red morocco, gilt title at spine, marbled paper... More
1936. [INSECTS] TAKESHITA Kin'u, artist. KÔRINFÛ MUSHI KURABE 3 vols. Kyôto, Uchida Bijutsu, Shôwa 11 [1936]. Each volume, 48.9 x 33.8 cm. From the library of the Fujii Shôten. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Each volume has a table of contents page and 12 large color woodblock prints of insects in nature... More
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1748. [MAP - JAPAN]. [SETTSU NO KUNI MEISHO]. Kyoto, Kimura Juyodo, Kan'en Gannen [1748]. A handcolored woodblock printed map of Settsu provice, containing the area of Osaka castle, etc. 117.3 X 129.1 cm, folds into heavy paper covers of approximately 27.7 x 18.9 cm. The original title slip is gone... More