1837. CODEX PHARMACOPEE FRANCAISE Redigee par Ordre du Gouvernement par une Commission Composee de Mm. les Professeurs de la Faculte de Medecine, et de l'Ecole Speciale de Pharmacie de Paris. Paris: Bechet Jeune, Libraire de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris, 1837. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 535 pp. + [4]...
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...
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...
1918. ASAI Chû. MOKUGO NIHONGA SHÛ. Kyoto: Unsôdô, (1909) 1927. Printed paper covers, tassle bound. This tall 4to sized volume (37 x 25.5 cm) which is an epitome of Asai Chû's "Japanese-style" painting is a companion to the MOKUGO TOAN-SHÛ, which focussed on his design work. Asai is famous as.....
1927. [AVANT-GARDE] UMEHARA Hokumei, et al. BUNGEI SHIJÔ Vol.3 #6. Wrappers, 21.7 x 15 cm. Tokyo, Showa 2 [1927] First published in November of 1925, this issue of June 1927 unleashed its mordant humor on the literary world of Japan. The cover is a study all on its own, with...
1891. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] 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...
1727. Vertue, George. BROOME, William. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. London: Bernard Lintot, 1727. Octavo. xiii(3)248pp. First edition. Fine frontispiece portrait engraved by George Vertue. Three pages of publisher's ads. Broome, a country clergyman, contributed the notes to Pope's Iliad (1715-20), and wrote eight of the 24 Books of "Pope's" translation...
1894. BROWNING, Robert. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 9 volumes, complete. Small octavo, 17 x 11.5 cm. Attractively bound by C. Walters in three-quarter red morocco with red cloth sides, gilt lettering and quadruple-ruled frames in compartments on spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Internally...
1931. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 10, #13. Tokyo, December 1931. 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...
18. [CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS]. ALBUM OF 30 FISH ON 12 SHEETS. Album of 12 sheets of pith, approximately 19 x 26 cm each, mounted onto pages within covers approx. 24.7 x 34.3 cm, covered in brocade with ties. A wonderful mid-19th century example of this realistic genre, which uses the...
1687. de hooch. DE HOOGHE, Romeyn. JERUSALEM EN SYN TEMPEL. Netherlands, 1687. 15 by 21 1/2 inches. A splendid two-page spread showing an aerial reconstruction of ancient Jerusalem, with the Temple in the center. 35 ancient buildings, monuments and Biblical locations are labeled. The lower register shows the Temple's treasures...
1899. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHÛ, artist. CHÛGAKU EDEHON Dai Roku. Tôkyô, Kinkôdô Shoseki, Meiji 32 [1899]. 2nd printing (originally published in 1895). Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.2 x 25.5 cm. This sixth volume of the series A DRAWING MANUAL FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL contain 8 sheets of sumi woodcut reproducing pencil sketches.....
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.....
1903. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHÛ, artist. JIZAIGA KYÔKASHO Dai Roppen. Tôkyô, Kinkôdô Shoseki, Meiji 36 [1903]. 1st printing. Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.6 x 26.5 cm. This sixth volume of the series A TEXTBOOK OF FREE SKETCHING contains 6 sheets of color woodcut reproducing watercolor sketches by Asai Chû and meant.....
1909. (EHON) NAKAMURA Fusetsu & KAWAHIGASHI Hekigotô. HAIGA HÔ. Tokyo: Kokado, 1909. 23 x 15.4 cm. String-bound Japanese style in flexible covers with stamped title. This visual and textual examination of the relationship between "haiga", haiku drawings, and the the haiku themselves was a collaborative effort between Fusetsu, a Western-style...
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...
1800. [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi [Artist] SANSUI RYAKUGA SHIKI. Edo: Suwaraya Ichibei. Kansei 12 [1800]. 26.2 x 18.2 cm. Faded and soiled [original?] light blue covers. Replaced brushed cover label. Complete in 1 volume. 29 single page and 15 double page color illustrations. Ref. Brown p.124; Mitchell p.460,1; 93,4; Ryerson p.213;...
1929. Goverment of Iraq. MAPS OF IRAQ WITH NOTES FOR VISITORS. Baghdad, London: Goverment of Iraq, 1929. REvised and Enlarded Edition, 1929. Folio. 34pp. Bound in original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front cover. 8 large folding maps, all required. All printed in 3 colors and produced by the...
1836. GRAY, Asa. ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1836. First edition. 428 pp. 12mo., brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Spine chipped 1/2 - 3/4 inch at heel and crown, joints cracked, chipped, boards worn. Lacks endpapers. Hinges repaired with heavy paper. Moderate...
1994. [JAPANESE PRINTS -- BAUR FOUNDATION ]. FORRER, Matthi. THE BAUR COLLECTION, GENEVA: JAPANESE PRINTS. Geneve: Collections Baur, (1994). Two volumes, complete unto themselves, but also volumes X and XI of the descriptive catalogue of the Baur Foundation collections. From a total edition limited to 3100 copies, this is number...
1916. JOLY, Henri and TOMITA, Kumasaku. JAPANESE ART & HANDICRAFT. An Illustrated Record of the Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross in October-November, 1915. London, Yamanaka & Co., MCMXVI. Thick heavy folio, 2 parts bound in one, half morocco gilt. The edges are quite worn and...
1909. RACKHAM, Arthur. LAMB, Charles and Mary. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London and New York: J. M. Dent and Co./E. P. Dutton & Co., 1909. 304 pp. Tall 8vo., green cloth with gilt decoration/lettering. Owner's ink signature on half-title. Very good, light shelfwear to heel and crown;...
1865. [BROADSIDE - Lithograph] LINCOLN, Abraham. EMANCIPATIONS PROKLAMATION. Davenport, Iowa: W.H. Pratt, 1865. August Hageboeck, lithographer. This is the second German-language version of the Emancipation Proclamation. It is printed in cursive within an oval border. The weight of the individual letters is varied so that, when viewed from a distance...
1973. [MATERIA MEDICA] Li Shizhen; translated by Suzuki Masaumi, et al.. Shinchû Kôtei KOKUYAKU HONSÔ KÔMOKU. Shunyôdô, Tôkyô, Shôwa 48 [1973] 15 volumes, bound Western-style in decorated cloth over boards, slipcases. The late 16th century Chinese materia medica, Honzô Kômoku, was imported into Japan by the early 17th century. The.....
1895. American Civil War. The first nine volumes commissioned by the MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS was published in Boston and New York by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, and in Cambridge by the Riverside Press, from 1895-1912. The Society's founder, John C. Ropes, called for a "Society for the investigation...
