1866. KAWAMURA UKOKU. NAGASAKI KIKÔ SHASEICHO 42 double page [image size 25.3 x 29.2 cm] paintings in sumi with slight color, painted by Ukoku in 1866. There are also 8 double page paintings in a different hand and one double page of calligraphy dated to Taisho 11 [1922]. Ukoku [1838-1906]...
1953. LAWSON, Robert. LAWSON, Robert. MR. REVERE AND I. Being an Account of certain episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as recently revealed by his Horse, Scheherezade, late pride of His Royal Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. (1953). Limited first edition, signed &...
1785. [MAP - JAPAN] HAYASHI Shihei. EZO NO KUNI ZENZU. This is a "shazu" or handcopied version of the original printed map which was published in Edo, by Suharaya Shihei, in Temmei 5 [1785]. Colored map of Hokkaido, 50 x 92 cm, folds into 17.8 x 12 cm covers with...
1857. [MILITARY] NAKANISHI Ki-ichirô, author. SEIYÔ HEIGAKU KUNMO Zen. N.P., Ansei 4 [1857]. 25.8 x 18.2 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Printed paper title label, original off-white covers. Done in traditional kinmo-zui style with a page of 9 color printed images of militaria from the West, facing a page with a....
1920. ONCHI Koshiro. [A BUILDING ON THE SHORE OF A POND] Oil on canvas, 33 x 45 cm. Dated "Marz 1921," with the word "Formasa" (i.e. Formosa), in pencil in the bottom right corner. It is unsigned; but its authenticity is attested to by Onchi's eldest son, Kunio, on a....
1942. ONCHI Kôshiro. HAKUBUTSUSHI Zuihitsu Shashin. Tokyo, Genkosha, Showa 17 [1942], 1 of 1500cc, Cloth, printed in silver ink, 27.0 x 19.4 cm. Very unusual work by Onchi, combining his written thought on natural forms with reproductions of his photography (depicting plants, insects, animals). Interesting, scarce. here internally very good...
1950. ONCHI Kôshirô, et al. HAKUBUTSU-FU. Tokyo: Showa 25 [1950]. Small oblong western-style book, printed paper-covered boards with a leather spine, 11.2 x 14.5 cm. An out-of-series copy of the edition of 200 [of 250] copies, signed and sealed by the editor, Onchi. This "NATURAL HISTORY SKETCHBOOK" represents the first...
1839. PERCY, JOHN. PRIZE THESIS. AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY, CONCERNING THE PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL IN THE VENTRICLES OF THE BRAIN, AFTER POISONING BY THAT LIQUID; TOGETHER WITH EXPERIMENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF ALCOHOL: FOR WHICH, A GOLD MEDAL WAS AWARDED BY THE MEDICAL FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY EDINBURGH. London...
1932. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Imada KINGO, editor. HANZAI KAGAKU Vol.3 #7 1932 JUNE. Published in Tokyo by Bukyosha. 8vo. size, printed wrappers. This magazine was only published for a short time, though it managed to include stories by important literary figures, wonderful photomontage and avant garde photo foldouts, strange erotica, tales of...
1924. [PREWAR ARCHITECTURE] Kôyôsha. Kenchiku Shashin Ruishû KINDAI SÔSHOKU ISHÔ ZUAN Tokyo, Taisho 12 [1923]. An interesting small, 19.1 x 13.3 cm, portfolio from the Illustrated Architecture series, this one on design motives and decorative elements with a heavy Deco influence. The ties of the little portfolio are missing, else.....
1945. WILLIAMS, Wightman. STEVENS, Wallace. ESTHETIQUE DU MAL. Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1945. First Edition. Number 167 of a limited edition of 300 copies. 8vo., unpaginated. One quarter leather with green "Natsume " straw-paper-covered boards. Stamped in gold on front. Illustrations by Wightman Williams. Leather is moderately rubbed. Lacks...
1802. THOMSON, Thomas. A SYSTEM OF CHEMISTRY in Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1802. FGirst edition. Four 8vo. volumes. Volumes I-III have one plate each. Thomson was Professor of Chemistry first at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Glasgow. He invented the saccharometer, and edited...
1844. TRAVERS, Benjamin. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION, AND THE HEALING PROCESS. London: Samuel Highley, 1844. Small 8vo. 226pp. + 8pp. advertisements at front and 2pp at rear. Ex-library, bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to title page. Brown cloth, blindstamped front, back and spine and stamped in gilt to spine...
1821. URE, Andrew. A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY, ON THE BASIS OF MR. NICHOLSON'S; IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE ARE INVESTIGATED ANEW, AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE PHENOMENA OF NATURE, MEDICINE, MINERALOGY, AGRICULTURE, AND MANUFACTURES, DETAILED. With an introductory dissertation; containing instructions for converting the alphabetical arrangement into a....
1840. WASHBURN, Emory. SKETCHES OF THE JUDICIAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM 1630 TO THE REVOLUTION IN 1775. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Inscribed presentation copy, "with the profound respect of the Author." 407 pp. 8vo., publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Good, some chipping...
