1777. [KYÔKA] BAIKÔ Hakuensai, KÔAMI Hokkyô (artist). E-IRI KYÔKA MITSUNOURA 1 volume, complete. Shioya Saburobei, Osaka, Anei 6 [1777]. 22.5 x 16.3 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukurô toji. Baikô (1737-1805) was a kyôka poet based in Osaka. His father, Setsuensai Ikkô, was the owner of a bookshop in Osaka and studied..... More
1700. LEMERY, Nicolas. PHARMACOPOEIA LEMERIANA CONTRACTA: LEMERY'S UNIVERSAL PHARMACOPOEIA ABRIDG'D, in a collection of recepe's and observations compar'd with the London and with Bates's Dispensatories, and also with Charas's Royal Pharmacy: to which are added some remedies recommended by the members of the French Royal Academy of Science, most collected... More
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1748. [MAP - JAPAN]. [SETTSU NO KUNI MEISHO]. Kyoto, Kimura Juyodo, Kan'en Gannen [1748]. A handcolored woodblock printed map of Settsu provice, containing the area of Osaka castle, etc. 117.3 X 129.1 cm, folds into heavy paper covers of approximately 27.7 x 18.9 cm. The original title slip is gone... More
1937. MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Signed by Millay on front flyleaf. 126 pp. 8vo., half black cloth with blue paper covered boards, paper spine label. Book very good, minor shelfwear to corners, spine label slightly spotted. Residue... More
1926. SHEPARD, E. H. MILNE, A. A. WINNIE THE POOH. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1926). First Edition in dust jacket. A bit of offsetting to the illustrated endpapers from the jacket flaps and minor bumps to the corners, else a near-fine copy, with bright and clean boards, in a.... More
1922. (NOBEL PRIZE). LES PRIX NOBEL EN 1919-1920. Stockholm: Imprimerie Royale, 1922. Text in either French, German, or English. 8vo., paper wrappers, title printed in red to spine and front wrap; partialy unopened. With portraits and biographies of the laureates: For Physics: Max Planck, Johannes Stark, Charles Edouard Guillaume For... More
18. [PAINTING ALBUM] TOSHINDO, artist. [A HUMOROUS ALBUM OF INDELICATE LADIES, c. 1880] 22 x 13.8 cm, Orihon folding album in raw silk covered boards. Shibata Toshindo was married into the Shibata family, her original family name was Niwa and birthplace Nagoya. The brother of one artist and married to... More
[PHOTOGRAPHS]. 141 HAND-COLORED & BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 19TH CENTURY JAPAN AND ASIA. Archive consists of six groups of photographs. Most are mounted and are disbound from albums, four have ink and watercolor illustrations on the mounts, and 19 are loose b/w prints, probably early 20th century. A few... More
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... More
1896. RAYLEIGH, Lord, & Professor William RAMSAY. ARGON, A NEW CONSTITUENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896 (Hodgkins Fund). 43 pp. Folio, brown wrappers printed in black. Very good condition, minor creasing and edgewear to wrappers, text unopened. Pencil numeral to front wrapper. In 1904, Rayleigh won the... More
1934. [SHIN HANGA] Kosugi Hôan & Nakazawa Hiromitsu. MANSHÛ ZU-E. Dairen, Shôwa 9 [1934] Japan Tourist Bureau. Ptinted by the important woodblock artisans, Takamizawa of Ôsaka. There are 5 ôban size prints of views and genre scenes in Manchuria. Kosugi (1881-1962) was one of the most important artists of the..... More
1835. SIGOURNEY, Mrs. L. H. LETTERS TO YOUNG LADIES. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. second edition. Inscribed by Mrs. Sigourney on the title-page: "Mr. and Mrs. G. Bond, with the/respects of the Author." 212 pp., + 4 pp. 18mo., blue moire cloth, spine missing, wonderful electric blue, color saturated... More
1889. MUIR GLACIER BEFORE DEVASTATING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS TABER, I. W. [photographer]. ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF MUIR GLACIER AND MORAIN, GLACIER BAY, ALASKA. 8 x 9.5 inches, mounted on 11 x 14 inch board. Photo captioned at bottom: "4582. View of Muir Glacier and Morain, Glacier Bay, Alaska. Copyrighted by... More
Umehara Hokumei 梅原北明, Murayama Tomoyoshi 村山知義, et al.Bungei Shijō 文藝市場. Tokyo. Shōwa 2 [1927]. [Avant Garde]. 21.7 x 15cm literary markets magazine in paper wrappers. July issue,169 pages. First published in November of 1925, this issue of July 1927, towards the end of its run, unleashed its mordant humor on... More
1839. WYATT, Thomas. A SYNOPSIS OF NATURAL HISTORY Embracing the Natural History of Animals, with Human and General Animal Physiology, Botany, Vegetable Physiology and Geology. Translated from the Latest French Edition of C. Lemmonnier, with Additions from the Works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede etc.; and Arranged as a Textbook for... More