1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Natsu no bu. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24 [1891]. 1 vol., approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. This is Vol.2 [Summer] and has 32 plates. These original Tanaka Jihei issues (which preceded the Unsodo versions) have become quite... More
1770. BURN, Richard. THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PARISH OFFICER. London, Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1770. Octavo. Four volumes. Xxxi,500; 508[2]ff.; 515[3]; [iv]464pp. plus tables and index. Eleventh edition. The most important work of a legal scholar who edited the ninth-through-eleventh editions of... More
[CHILDREN'S BOOK] Nihon Kyôiku Ongaku Kyôkai. EHON SHÔKA Natsu no Maki. Tôkyô, Shôwa 7 [1932] Color-printed stapled wrappers, 22.8 x 15.3 cm. Illustrated throughout with wonderful color drawings, creatures of the sea and land playing musical instruments - the cover is by the inimitably charming Takei Takeo. There are stories..... More
1847. CLARK, Joseph G. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SAILOR LIFE, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN FIFTEEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING THE MORE THRILLING EVENTS OF THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION, AND REMINISCENCES OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE ON THE "MOUNTAIN WAVE". Boston: John Putnam, 1847. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 324. Red cloth, blindstamped front and... More
1856. CLAY, Charles. THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRIC SURGERY: OR, SHORT RULES OF PRACTICE IN EVERY EMERGENCY, FROM THE SIMPLEST TO THE MOST FORMIDABLE OPERATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE SCIENCE OF OBSTETRICS. London: Henry Renshaw, 1856. xi + [1] + 290 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertising. 12mo., brown cloth with... More
1729. CLUVER, Philipp. PHILIPPI CLUVERI INTRODUCTIONIS IN UNIVERSAM GEOGRAPHIAM, tam VETEREM quam NOVAM LIBRI VI. Cum integris Johannis Bunonis, Joh. Frid. Hekelii & Joh. Reiskii, & selectis Londinensibus notis. Textum ad optimas Editiones recognovit; Pauca Cluverii, multa interpretum sphalmata obelo notavit; Bunonianis Tabulis geographicis passim emendatis novas accuratiores addidit; Praefationemque... More
1871. CROFUTT, George A. CROFUTT'S TRANS-CONTINENTAL TOURIST'S GUIDE. New York: [n.p.] 1871. Illustrated (maps and engravings). "Third vol., second annual revise." 12mo., blue cloth. 215 pp. + large folding map only, in fragments. Reviews and advertisements at rear. Ex-library, with all of the usual marks, including an ink stamp on... More
1894. [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor. Kôgei Ôyô ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26, Tôkyô, Meiji 26-27 [1893-4]. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu (1847-1913) was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture, here using his artistic and design skills..... More
1939. [DESIGN] KAWARASAKI Kôtô. IRO CHIGUSA 2 volumes. Unsôdô, Kyôto & Tôkyô, Shôwa 14 [1939]. One of the wonderful design books by Kawarasaki, complete, with a total of 40 pages of color woodblock printed designs, 2 or 3 to a page. A few transfers of images to facing pages and..... More
1815. [DESIGN] Matsuoka Tokikata; Honma Hyakuri. SHOKUMON ZUE. 7 vols., privately published by Hyakuri, apparently from 1815-25, as a completion of work begun by Tokikata in the late 18th, very early 19th century. 19.3 x 26.9 cm, string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji with printed paper title labels - all bindings match... More
1891. [EHON] Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 [1891-2]. 4 vols., each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound, fukuro-toji, Japanese style. Vol.1 [Spring] has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers, of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 [Summer] has 32 plates, of... More
1807. [EHON] Tani BUNCHÔ, artist. NIHON MEISAN ZUE 3 vols. Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, [n.d, c. 1807]. 25.7 x 18.7 cm. String-bound, fukuro-toji, original printed paper title labels, b+w woodblock depictions of the "Famous Mountains of Japan." A work justly famed for its accurate representation of the mountains in question. According... 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
1794. FREEMAN, Samuel. THE TOWN OFFICER: OR THE POWER AND DUTY OF SELECTMEN... AND OTHER TOWN OFFICERS. As contained in the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. With a Variety of Forms, for the Use of such Officers. To which are added, the Power and Duty of Towns, Parishes and... More
1774. [GOLDSMITH, Oliver]. THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to his Friends in the East. London, T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1774. 12mo. Two volumes. viii,259; [ii]217[16]pp. Third edition. Small spot of worming to margin of pp. i-vi; light marginal offset to... More
1973. HAWLEY, W. M. TSUBAS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Photographs by Charles Cowdery & W. M. Hawley. [n.p.]: W. M. Hawley in cooperation with the Japanese Sword Club of Southern California (1973). Photo reproductions in sepia and b/w, and illustrations. 302 pp. 4to., green cloth stamped in gilt. Near fine, light... More
1864. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First edition. [viii] 1-468 pp., + 22 pp. publisher's advertisement dated November, 1863. Octavo, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and blind-stamped boards. An attractive near-fine copy, it is clean inside... More
1931. JOSEPH, J.(Jacques). NASENPLASTIK UND SONSTIGE GESICHTSPLASTIK NEBST EINEM ANHANG UBER MAMMAPLASTIK UND EINEGE WEITERE OPERATIONEN AUS DEM GEBIETEDER AUSSEREN KORPERPLASTIK. (Facsimile Reprint of 1931 edition). Leipzig: Curt Kabitzsch, 1931. (Facsimile reprint by Willem A. Meeuws). 8vo. 842pp. Light brown cloth backed with green cloth. Ruled and lettered in gilt... More
1921. TSUDA SEIFÛ. [KAKEMONO - HANGING SCROLL] Tsuda SEIFÛ, artist. "MOMOKAWA" LANDSCAPE PAINTING OF A MOUNTAIN STREAM, DANCING CRANES. Hanging scroll, image size 135.2 X 33.4 cm. Beautifully mounted on brocade with BONE jiku. The painting is signed and sealed by Seifû (1880-1978), an extraordinarily influential artists and designer who... More
1970. KAWAKAMI Sumio, artist. RIREKISHO, Gohachi (Seiensô), Shôwa 45 [1970]. Oblong western-bound book, 16.7 x 20.0 cm. #28 of 100 copies, signed by Kawakami, with many hand-colored illustrations in this, his "RESUME". A charming book in Kawakami's distinctive style. Fine in the original shipping box and inner clamshell. Uncommon. More
1956. KITASONO Katue, poet. GARASU NO KUCHIHIGE poeme interieur. Tokyo, Kokubunsha, 1956, #77 of 280cc., White, paper-covered boards in printed dustwrapper. 18.4 x 15.3 cm. Near fine collection of Kitasono's poetry. Excerpts from this "GLASS MOUSTACHE" collection were examined eloquently by John Solt in his work on Kitasono: SHREDDING THE... More
LOWELL, D. R. PHOTOGRAPH AND SIGNED MANUSCRIPT NOTE FRAGMENT, MATTED AND FRAMED. [n.p., n.d.] Manuscript sample from a note from Lowell to William Dana ORCUTT, author of (among other works) FROM MY LIBRARY WALLS: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF MEMORIES. The aforementioned book is based on articles he wrote for The Christian..... More
1860. [MAP - NEW YORK STATE]. THE STATE OF NEW YORK FROM NEW AND ORIGINAL SURVEYS, under the direction of J. H. French, O.E. Syracuse: Robert Pearsall Smith, Publisher, 1860. A large-format wall map of New York State surrounded by vignette maps of Syracuse Oswego, Manhattan, Long Island, Hudson, Schenectady... More
1880. MEEHAN, Thomas. NATIVE FLOWERS AND FERNS OF THE UNITED STATES IN THEIR BOTANICAL, HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL ASPECTS. Philadelphia: American Nat. History Pub. Co., Limited, 1880. Second Series, Volumes 1 & 2. Illustrated with 96 chromolithographic plates (48 in each volumes) by L. Prang & Co., Boston, MA. Two quarto... 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