1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1797. BEDDOES, Thomas. OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF CALCULUS, SEA SCURVY, CONSUMPTION, CATARRH, AND FEVER: Together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology. Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson ..., 1797. The text includes two memoirs (p. 171-252) by Dr. Girtanner on the laws and principle..... 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
1762. [CAMPBELL, JOHN.] AN ACCOUNT OF THE SPANISH SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA. Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid for the Author, and A. Donaldson, 1762. First edition. Small 4to., xvi + 512 pp. with folding frontispiece engraving, A New General Map of America. Full calf, boards detached, spine missing..... More
1934. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 13, #11. Tokyo, October, 1934. With contributions by such artists as Takei Takeo and writers as Ogawa Mimei. Some edgewear and soiling else very good. More
1825. COBBETT, William. THE WOODLANDS: OR, A TREATISE On the preparing of ground for planting; on the planting; on the cultivating; and on the cutting down of Forest Trees and Underwoods ... London: William Cobbett, 1825. [8], unpaginated (601 paragraphs, numbered). Complete. With 4 pp. publisher's advertisements. Very good. 8vo...... More
1907. [Crepe Paper Book] Kimura Shotaro & Peake, Charlotte M. A., translators. SWORD AND BLOSSOM POEMS FROM THE JAPANESE. Volumes I II III. Tokyo, 38 Yotsuya Hommura: T. Hasegawa, Meiji 41 [1908] Printed by Kaneko Tokujiro. 18.1 x 12.3 cm. Volume one is a second printing from 1909 after the..... More
1789. CULLEN, William. A TREATISE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. Edinburgh: Charles Elliot, 1789. Large Quarto. 22 x 28cm. 2 volumes. Vol 1: 432p. Vol 2: 610p. Ex-library, with a few stamps and labels. Bound in full calf, old and worn. Upper board of Volume 1 detached, other joints quite weak..... More
1877. DAVIS, George S., & C. Henri LEONARD, eds. NEW PREPARATIONS; A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, DEVOTED TO THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW THERAPEUTICAL AGENTS, vols. 1 & 2. Detroit: Geo. S. Davis, 1877-1878. 8vo, 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (1877); 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (1878). Ex-library, cloth..... 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
18. [EHON MANUSCRIPT] SHIJÔ SCHOOL ALBUM. Fukuro-toji style string-bound album, 26.5 x 19.3 cm, consisting of 14 double page and 12 single page color images painted in a skillful Shijô manner, apparently a product of the mid-19th century. The majority of the images are of figures, with a significant minority..... More
1685. [EHON] Hishikawa MORONOBU, artist. Hishikawa SHOSHOKU EHON KAGAMI. Jokyo 2 [1685]. 2 vols. Ôhon, large b+w illustrated book of occupations, done by Moronobu at the height of his powers and one of his best known creations. The copy at hand is bound in two volumes within the original covers..... More
19. [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi, artist. GYÔKAI RYAKUGA-SHIKI with original Bunka colophon, but this is undoubtedly a 20th century reprint in color woodblock, perhaps from the original blocks, perhaps by Unsôdô of Kyôto.. 1 volume, complete. Plain brown covers, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji, with the printed title label. 24.6 X...... More
1806. [EHON] Yamaguchi SÔKEN. SÔKEN GAFU Sôka no Bu. 3 volumes, complete. Dark grey (replaced) covers with original printed title labels. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 25.8 x 17.7 cm. Kyoto: Bunka 3 [1806] Illustrated in b+w and grey woodcut throughout. This is perhaps Sôken's most successful ehon - illustrating a series..... More
1885. FOURNIER, Alfred. LECONS SUR LA PERIODE PRAEATAXIQUE DU TABES D'ORIGINE SYPHILITIQUE. Paris: G. Masson, Editeur, 1885. [4],440,[3] pp. In French. 8vo., modern quarter green cloth with marbled paper sides; original blue wrappers bound in. Pencil ownership to original front wrapper. Uncut. Minor dust-soil to exterior bookblock only. Quite clean..... More
1944. [FURNITURE] Kenmochi Isamu. Kenchiku Shinsho 9 KIKAKU KAGU. Tokyo, Showa 19 [1944] 2nd printing after the first of 1943. 12mo., bound Western style in illustrated boards, heavily illustrated with photos. THE STANDARDS OF FURNITURE was an important work, as is evidenced by its reprinting in the closing days of..... More
1830. GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COMPANY. W. B. BOLLES CERTIFICATE FOR TEXAS LAND. New York City: October 16, 1830. Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company document signed by three trustees representing Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein and David G. Burnet. One page, 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Made out..... More
1758. HALLER, Albrecht von. DEUX MEMOIRES SUR LA FORMATION DES OS, FONDES SUR DES EXPERIENCES. Lausanne: Chez Bouquet, 1758. First edition. (A Latin version was included in von Haller's Opera Minora, printed at Lausanne, 1763-68.) 12mo. [vi]267 pp., + a folding table of bone development of baby chicks in the..... More
1921. HARADA, Y. EXPLANATORY NOTES ON SEN-OKU SEI-SHO or The Collection of Old Bronzes of Baron Sumitomo. Part II, Ancient Mirrors. 3vols. [89 p.] [119p.] 42p. This set includes a volume of captions in English for the two illustrated volumes. The two longer volumes include Japanese text and 100 illustrations..... More
19. [HOKKAIDÔ]. NANBURYÔ GUNSON RYAKKI. Manuscript. 2+ page introduction, 3 full pages of a delicately colored continuous map extending from Akita in northeast Honshû up to Matsumae in southern Hokkaidô. With another 28 pages of text detailing family names, places, feudal allotments (koku, villages, etc.) dates of founding (mostly in..... More
1986. [KATAZOME] KANZAKA Onjun. TOKI TO NINGYÔ TO. Horita Ryohei, n.p. [Osaka?], Showa 61 [1986]. 16.3 x 22.2 cm. Designed, printed and colored by Onjun in his katazome stencil medium. Number 49 of only 50 copies of this lovely book bound in orihon folding album style in stiff washi-covered boards..... More
1878. KENDRICK, JOHN B. HISTORY OF THE WALLINGFORD DISASTER. Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1878. 76p. Bound in red moire silk with gilt title to front board. A narrative history of a destructive tornado with 8 lovely illustrations. Title page just about detatched. [a]. More
1924. SAPHIER, William. KNOWLES, Vernon THE STREET OF QUEER HOUSES AND OTHER STORIES. New York:Boullion-Biggs, 1924. 156pp. 8vo. First Edition. Illustrated by William Saphier. Black cloth stamped in gilt to front and spine. Cloth lightly worn. Pages slightly toned. Includes two copies of publisher's brochure for this title. Near Fine..... More
1926. [MAVO] SAITO Hideo, author; OKADA Tatsuo, artist. AOZAMETA DOTEIKYO. The title of this important work is usually translated as THE PALE-FACED VIRGIN'S MAD THOUGHTS. Published by Choryusha of Tokyo in 1926, it is illustrated throughout with black & white linocuts executed by Okada Tatsuo. 8vo, 4, 120pp. +4pp. There..... More
1837. [MEISHOKI]. NIKKÔ SANSHI, 5 vols. Edo, Tempo 8 [1837]. 25.7 x 18.3 cm., With original covers, though they are not the light blue covers called for at Mitchell 436, but rather grey covers with a blind-printed pattern of floral roundels. A fresh and clean copy in good impression (perhaps..... More