1935. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 12, number 8. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 9 [1935]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 88 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues were... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 8. 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
19. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. [PROSE WORKS]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, v.d. (1901-1913). Complete in seven octavo volumes. Frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 & 7. Publisher's binding of green ribbed cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; uncut and unopened. A fine and fresh set in age-browned, spine-sunned... More
1782. BELL, John, ed. THE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN. Edinburgh: The Apollo Press, 1776-1782. 24mo., original speckled calf with gilt dentelles, spine rules, and gilt red morocco spine labels (some missing/chipped). 106 of 109 volumes, bound in 57 books. Engraved frontispieces and extra titles. Very good, a few joints quite... More
1598. BRIGHT, Timothy. THERAPEUTICA; Hoc est, de Sanitate Restituenda, Medicinae Pars Altera. Frankfort, Ex Officina Paltheniana, 1598. 12mo. 111pp. Bound together with: MARSILII FICINI, MEDICI FLORETINI atque Philosophi Platonici celeberrimi, Libri III de Vita. Frankfort, Paltheniana, 1598. [xvi]190pp. Consisting of Parts II and III of Bright's "Medicina," the second edition... 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
1853. [CHILDREN'S] HOLLY BERRIES: OR, THE PLEASURES OF HOME AND THE COUNTRY. New Stories for the Winter and Summer Holidays of Little People. Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1853. 168 pp. 12mo., brown ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Near fine, cloth and gilt cover lettering bright. Spine lettering slightly... More
1935. SEIHÔ Takeuchi. [PRINT ALBUM] Takeuchi SEIHÔ. SEIHÔ IPPINSHÛ. Kyoto & Tokyo, Unsodo, Showa 12 - 14 [1937 - 9]. 53.2 cm x 42.7 cm. The first series, complete with all 31 prints which were issued in two formats: (1) ten paper fascicules and also (2) tassel-bound by the publisher... More
1902. [DESIGN] Fujii Rindô. SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4. Kyôto, Yamada Unsôdô, Meiji 35 [1902]. Four volumes, complete, each volume with printed title, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. Illustrated throughout with lightly colored woodblock prints of traditional design motifs. The covers are worn, some pages split but present. More
1899. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHÛ, artist. CHÛGAKU EDEHON Dai San. Tôkyô, Kinkôdô Shoseki, Meiji 32 [1899]. 2nd printing (originally published in 1895). Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.2 x 25.5 cm. This third volume of the series A DRAWING MANUAL FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL originally contained 10 sheets of sumi woodcut reproducing pencil... 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
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
187. [EHON] Ôishi MATORA. HARIKAE ANDÔ [Owari: Eirakuya Toshiro, n.d. {c.1870s}] 22.7 x 15.7, fukuro toji, string-bound Japanese style. 23 sheets of colored woodblock illustrations, many double-page in format. A gappon, 2 volume in one edition of the SOGA HYAKUBUTSU, which originally appeared in 1832. Printed in color throughout, in... More
1891. [EHON] TANAKA JIHEI, publisher & printer. MIYAKO NO NISHIKI. Kyôto, Meiji 24 [1891]. Yellow patterned paper over boards, folding orihon album. 24.2 x 16.6 cm. 26 double page images after paintings by such Kyôto school stalwarts as Mori Kansai, Kôno Bairei, Imao Keinen, Takeuchi Seihô, Kikuchi Hôbun, Tomioka Tessai... 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
1753. [EHON] Wang Kai, et al. KAISHIEN GADEN. Kyoto, 1753. 5 vols., 27.1 x 18.2 cm., original printed title labels and blindstamped patterned blue-green paper covers, string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji. These volumes represent the first collection (shû) of the Japanese edition of the Chinese classic of illustrated book publication, the... More
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1826. FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], KENTUCKY AND TENNESEE. [From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.] Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826. Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24". Drawn by D.H.Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. Lightly soiled with light off-setting. Top of center... 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
1890. A LOVELY TRIPLE-DECKER GISSING, George. THE EMANCIPATED. A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. First Edition. 3 Vols. 8vo. Brown patterned paper covered boards backed with brown cloth. Stamped in gilt to spines. Blue-grey patterned endpapers. Slight rubbing to spine and extremes. Vol. II has... More
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... More
1815. GREGORY, [James], Professor. A DISSERTATION ON THE INFLUENCE OF A CHANGE OF CLIMATE IN CURING DISEASES. Translated from the original Latin, and enlarged with occasional notes by William P. C. Barton, M.D. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, William Fry, Printer, 1815. 212 pp. Octavo. 14 x 22 cm. In a worn... More
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1819. (HOKUSAI MANGA) Katsushika I-itsu HOKUSAI MANGA Kyû-hen. Edo: Kadomaruya, Bunsei 2 [1819]. 22.2 x 15.9 cm. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Original covers with replaced, brushed title label. Though Nagoya-based Eirakuya Toshiro editions of the MANGA are quite common, the Edo issues by Kadomaruya are quite unusual. In addition, this is... More
1948. KAWAI Kijirô, artist. Kappaban ABC. Sei-ensô, Shôwa 23 [1948] 18.0 x 15.0 cm. Stencil-printed covers in a stencil-printed dustwrapper. Number 22 of the deluxe edition of 30cc [of 100cc total]. A wonderful little ABCDEry done in kappaban stencil in English. A lovely production, particularly unusual in early postWar Japan... 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
