1916. [BIRD AND FLOWER] Watanabe Seitei. SEITEI KACHÔ. Tokyo, Okura Shoten, Okura Yasugoro, Taisho 5 [1916]. Brown cloth clasped portfolio, 28.2 x 38 cm. A complete collection of the 22 color prints, the preface and table of contents page, 24 sheets in all, with a colophon label on the inside... More about SEITEI KACHÔ
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1837. (BIBLE - JAPAN). YOHANE FUKUIN NO DEN [GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN IN JAPANESE] Shingapôru: Kenka Shoin zôhan, 1837. Translated by the Britsh missionary Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (1803 -1851)between 1835-1836 at Macao, with the assistance of three shipwrecked Japanese sailors who taught him Japanese, one of whom, Yamamoto Otokichi..... More about YOHANE FUKUIN NO DEN [GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN IN JAPANESE
1852. GROTE, George. HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. I.(-XII.) London: John Murray, v.d. (1852-56). The work is comprised of volumes from the third and fourth editions. Offered with: THE MINOR WORKS OF GEORGE GROTE. With critical remarks on his intellectual character, writings, and speeches, by Alexander Bain. London: John Murray, 1873... More about HISTORY OF GREECE
1924. [AUCTION CATALOGUE - Louis Gonse collection]. Hotel DROUOT, auctioneer. COLLECTION LOUIS GONSE : oeuvres d'art du Japon choix d'estampes et de livres des principaux maitres de l'Ukiyoye, peintures des maitres du XVe au XIXe siecle, .... laques ... netsuke ...poteries japonaises ... robes japonaises ... Paris: Imp. Georges Petit... More about COLLECTION LOUIS GONSE: OEUVRES D'ART DU JAPON
1970. PIERCY, MARGE. DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP. Advance Review or Proof copy, stapled yellow wrappers, oblong, front wrapper printed in black with title and illustration, a totemic figure. Undated. 232 pages laid out on 116 pages, two columns (pages) on each side. Originally publised in 1970 by Doubleday, the... More about DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP
19. ELIOT, T. S., autograph. CHRISTMAS CARD, SIGNED BY BOTH T. S. ELIOT AND HIS WIFE VALERIE. Undated, circa 1957-1964. The card, published by the Medici Society Ltd., London, is heavy cream-colored stock, 15 x 20 cm when folded, with a color reproduction of Joseph Anton Koch's painting "The Procession... More about CHRISTMAS CARD, SIGNED BY BOTH T. S. ELIOT AND HIS WIFE VALERIE
1822. BENTHAM, Jeremy. CHURCh-OF-ENGLANDISM AND ITS CATECHISM EXAMINED: preceded by strictures on the exclusionary system, as pursued in the national society's schools interspersed with parallel views of the English and Scottish established and non-established churches: and concluding with remidies proposed for abuses indicated: and an examination of the parliamentary system... More about CHURCh OF ENGLANDISM AND ITS CATECHISM EXAMINED
1932. ELIOT, T. S. JOHN DRYDEN: THE POET, THE DRAMATIST, THE CRITIC. New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. First edition, signed copy: This is number 44 from a special group of 100 numbered and 10 unnumbered copies signed by Eliot. [4] ff., [5]-67,[1] pp., including a frontispiece portrait of... More about JOHN DRYDEN: THE POET, THE DRAMATIST, THE CRITIC
1514. [Ehon] Sin, Yong-gae. SOK SAMGANG HAENGSILTO Preface from 1514. Though a later impression, Korean volumes of this age and importance are seldom found. The Hangul gloss in the top margin is somewhat trimmed but the Hanja characters are complete. This Sok Samgang Haengsilto ('Continued Illustrated Exemplars of the Three... More about SOK SAMGANG HAENGSILTO
1783. [Kyôka] Bakuribô, Teiya, [edited by]. Kyôka Kaki no Tane [Kyoto]: Fujiya Shinbe, 1783. First edition. A book of kyôka poems accompanied by twenty-one delightful sumi-e vignettes, edited by Bakuribo Teiya. Bakuribo, a kyôka poet based in Kyoto, was a student of kyôka poet Kyûjokan Donei (1723-1767). He edited three..... More about Kyôka KAKI NO TANE
[PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN] ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923. Oblong 11" x 15" grey cloth cord-bound covers. 93 original b/w photographs 4 3/8" x 6" mounted on thick card stock, two per page.Bookplate to fly leaf reads "ex libris K. Sinkai". Boards are slightly... More about ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTH QUAKE OF 1923
1955. MUIR, P. H. CATNACHERY. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1955. One from a limited edition of 325 unnumbered copies printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press in San Francisco. [36] pp., the first leaf and final page are blank, colophon on p. [35]. Five folding facsimile... More about CATNACHERY
1860. [SHUNGA] Attributed to Utagawa Kunimori II. SHAKA HASSÔ ZOKU YAMATO BUNKO 3 vols. [Preface dated Mannen 1 {1860} Kunimori was active from about 1840 to 1860. 22.7 x 15.3 cm. String-bound, fukuro-toji, hanshibon. In the original printed covers, volumes two and three have the original printed title labels, volume... More about SHAKA HASSÔ ZOKU YAMATO BUNKO 3 vols
1840. [EHON] TSURUNOYA Osamaru, editor. KYÔKA KANYÛSHÛ. [Tempô 11 {1840}] Ôsaka, carved by Shihosan Kiyû. A compilation of comical tanka, with illustratons in stunning colors by Kitagawa Horonobu and Matsukawa Hanzan (1815-1882). While little is known about the former artist, Matsukawa Hanzan is known to have studied art under ukiyo-e..... More about KYÔKA KANYÛSHÛ
1804. [ENPON - SHUNGA] Kitagawa UTAMARO, artist. MICHIYUKI KOI NO FUTOSAO. N.D. [1802]. 21.1 x 15.0 cm. 3 volumes. Original handpainted covers, and abraded original title labels. The b+w version of this important work by Utamaro, usually accepted as the original edition before the addition of color blocks. A very... More about MICHIYUKI KOI NO FUTOSAO
1801. [EHON] Utagawa TOYOKUNI I. Yôbô Shashin HAIYÛ SANKAI-KYÔ. Edo, Nishimiya Shinroku, Yorozuya Tajiemon, Kansei 13 [1801]. 21.6 x 15.2 cm., hanshibon, string-bound, fukuro-toji. With the original blind-stamped covers. The printed title labels is soiled but present on volume one and nearly gone from volume two. It has the title... More about Yôbô Shashin HAIYÛ SANKAI-KYÔ
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1934. [DESIGN] Ôzu Dôjin, design group. HIMEKESHI [REISHUN]. Uchida Bijutsu, Kyoto, Showa 9 [1934] ..x.. cm. Orihon in brocade covers with printed paper title label, all in the original publisher's clasped chitsu with title label. There are 32 pages, 16 double page printes in color woodblock of flower and botanical... More about HIMEKESHI [REISHUN
1943. SERIZAWA KEISUKE. MASHIKO HIGAERI. This work was privately printed by Serizawa in 1943 in katazome stencil printing, bound fukuro-toji, string-bound Japanese-style. there are 23 full page colored stencil plates. The first 25 copies of A DAY TRIP TO MASHIKO were in full size, as here, 30.2 x 21.5 cm... More about MASHIKO HIGAERI
1900. [CREPE PAPER BOOK] FLORENZ, K. Japanische Dramen TERAKOYA u. ASAGAO. Leipzig: C.F. Amelangs Verlag (Hasegawa, Yotsuya Hommura, Tokyo, Meiji 33 [1900]) Large format (19.6 X 15.4 cm) creped paper book, illustrated with color woodcuts. This is the "Dritte Auflage". Near fine in a clasped wraparound that shows but the... More about Japanische Dramen TERAKOYA U. ASAGAO
1837. [MEISHOKI]. NIKKÔ SANSHI, 5 vols. Edo, Tempo 8 [1837]. 25.7 x 18.3 cm., With original covers, though they are not the light blue covers called for at Mitchell 436, but rather grey covers with a blind-printed pattern of floral roundels. A fresh and clean copy in good impression (perhaps... More about NIKKÔ SANSHI, 5 vols
1949. SEKINO Jun'ichirô, artist. KOJIKI EMAKI. Tôkyô, Sei-en-sô, Shôwa 24 [1949]. Printed "hors commerce" #33 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Sekino. A large (36 x 30 cm) kappa-ban, color stencil-printed volume in stencil-printed boards, bound fukuro-toji but with Western-style spine. A rendition of the early histories embodied... More about KOJIKI EMAKI
1911. [EHON - Design Book] Yamada Unsôdô, publisher. MOMIJI. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, Meiji 44 [1911]. 26.5 x 19 cm. Orihon, with printed paper covers over boards. Thirty double fold sets of color woodcuts detailing the leaf forms of some 187 different species of Japanese maple. A scarce example of Unsodo's... More about MOMIJI
1929. [EHON - BOTANICAL] Tanigami KÔNAN, artist. SHÔKEI KABENJÔ San. Kyoto, Unsôdô, Shôwa 4 [1929]. There is a complex series of puns involved with the titling of this work. Suffice it to say that the title describes a collection of designs of flowers and grasses of an unusually large size..... More about SHÔKEI KABENJÔ San
1923. [EHON] Tanigami KÔNAN, artist. SHÔKEI KABENJÔ Ichi. Kyoto, Unsodo, Taisho 12 [1923]. There is a complex series of puns involved with the titling of this work. Suffice it to say that the title describes a collection of designs of flowers and grasses of an unusually large size. They are..... More about SHÔKEI KABENJÔ Ichi