1854. LLOYD, L. SCANDINAVIAN ADVENTURES DURING A RESIDENCE OF UPWARDS OF TWENTY YEARS. REPRESENTING SPORTING INCIDENTS, AND SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND DEVICES FOR ENTRAPPING WILD ANIMALS. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORTHERN FAUNA. 2 VOLUMES. London: Richard Bentley, 1854. xxi + [1] + 512 pp./xi + [1] + 527..... More
1961. [MIMEOGRAPH/STENCIL ART] Wakayama Yasôji, poet and artist. KAENAI KIMONO. Tokyo, Seienso. Showa 36 [1961]. One of 200 copies, signed by Wakayama. Small western-bound full leather volume of poems, illustrated by Wakayama in his own technique of stencil art, named kohan. 10.5 x 9 cm. There is an inset kohan..... 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
1899. 45 GORGEOUS PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS; IN ORIGINAL CLOTH DUST JACKETS PARKMAN, Francis. MONTCALM AND WOLFE, 2 VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY EDITION. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1899. First edition thus. 529/562 pp. + publisher's advertisements. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt, in publisher's gilt decorated cloth dust jackets (in matching blue)..... More
1867. HOMER, Winslow. [PERIODICALS - NINETEENTH CENTURY] HARPER'S BAZAR VOL 1 NOS 1-61, 1867-1868. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867-1868. 976 pp. + patterns and plates. Folio, quarter black leather (most of spine chipped away) with brown pebbled cloth boards. Boards and leather quite worn. Some light foxing to interior..... More
1932. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Imada KINGO, editor. HANZAI KAGAKU Vol.3 #7 1932 JUNE. Published in Tôkyô by Bukyôsha. 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 urban life..... More
1930. [PREWAR ADVERTISING] Murota Kurazô, designer. YÔHIN BÔSHITEN KÔKOKU ZUANSHÛ. Seibundo, Tokyo, Showa 5 [1930]. 29.9 X 22.1 cm. Printed paper wrappers. From an important series of design portfolios produced by Seibundo, this one is dedicated to shops specializing in Western-style hats. Murota was an important ad designer of the..... More
1932. [PREWAR ADVERTISING] Edited by Shôtenkaisha MAEJIMA Sei-ichi, designer. RAJIO CHIKUONKITEN HANJÔSAKU. Seibundo, Tokyo, Showa 7 [1932]. 30.0 X 21.8 cm. From an important series of design portfolios originally produced by Seibundo in 1930. The original title of this work was CHIKUONKI GAKKITEN KÔKOKU ZUANSHÛ and the attributed designer was..... More
1932. [PREWAR ADVERTISING] Edited by Shôtenkaisha. YÔHINTEN HANJÔSAKU. Seibundo, Tokyo, Showa 7 [1932]. 30.0 X 21.8 cm. From an important series of design portfolios originally produced by Seibundo in 1930. The original title of this work was YÔHIN BÔSHITEN KÔKOKU ZUANSHÛ and the attributed designer was Murota Kurazô. That original..... More
1978. SARTRE, Jean-Paul. FIVE PLAYS. Frankin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. 484pp. Red Leather stamped in gilt to front, back and spine. Limited edition collection of plays, signed by the author. More
1919. [SKETCHTOUR BOOK] KINAI ANGYA. Kanao Bun'endo, Taisho 8 [1919] Thick 8vo., flexible printed pictorial covers, 35; 959 + colophon & ads. (The extensive ads make up a useful bibliographical resource on Bun'endo.) First printing of this interesting work - the artists include Nakazawa Hiromitsu, Mizushima Nihou, Nabei Katsuyuki, Kato..... More
1771. THEOBALD, John. MEDULLA MEDICINAE UNIVERSAE, or, a New Compendious Dispensatory: compiled at the Command of the late Duke of Cumberland, for the Use of the Military Hospital Abroad. To which is added an English Translation with a Comment subjoined to each Prescription. London, J. Whiston, J. Rivington [et al..... 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
1916. VERSCHUER, W.F.K. Baron van. ARY DE MILDE: Mr. THEEPOTBACKER. Amsterdam: Boek-, Kunst- & Handelsdrukkerij v/h Gebroeders Binger, 1916. First Edition. Twelve photo-illustrated plates, of which two are color, and text illustrations. Ary de Milde (1634-1708), a Dutch potter, produced red stoneware teapots after Chinese examples. The two color plates..... More
