1941. [Manuscript album]. Kanbara Tai, et al. ENKA-JÔ. Ca. 1941. Titled 'An Album of Mist and Clouds', this book features fourteen examples of hand-painted calligraphy and simple artworks from different artists, including an illustration by Kanbara Tai (1898-1997). Kanbara was early on one of the most important members of the... More
1883. Inoue Gensuke 井上源助 . Omoto Chasei Chūkei 万年青写生注解. n.p.: Meiji 16 [1883]. 2 volumes, Vol 1 17 x 12cm and Vol 2 17.5 x 12cm, bound western style with green paper wrappers and red printed title slips and enclosed in a modern green chitsu 18 x 13cm. Volume 1... More
1804. [EHON] IKE NO TAIGA, artist. TAIGADO GAFU. [Kyoto], Prefatory date of Kyôwa 3 [1803], no colophon, like the Mitchell copy at page 509. 30.0 x 19.2 cm. Orihon folding album in rubbed tan covers with the original printed title label. Profusely illustrated throughout in color - this great classic... More
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19. (DRAMA - CHINA). [SCENES FROM CHINESE PLAYS, SERIES I.] N.p., n.d. (circa 1920). Painted manuscript volume of traditional Chinese plays, with 12 illustrations. Chinese language title on the cover and no other text (The English language title above comes from another copy we have seen with an English language... More
19. (DRAMA - CHINA). SCENES FROM CHINESE PLAYS, SERIES I. N.p., n.d. (circa 1920). Painted manuscript volume of traditional Chinese plays, with 12 illustrations. Chinese and English language title on the cover and English language captions under the illustrations. [12] ff. Traditionally bound: paper wrappers with a blue cloth backstrip... More
1890. [DESIGN] SHIN ZUAN, #11-20, 10 volumes. Kyoto, Shinzuankai. Nakayasu Shinsaburô, Meiji 25-7 [1890-2]. 24.4 x 16.5 cm. Cord- bound Japanese-style (fukuro toji). Printed paper covers, each with at least 12 single page color woodcuts after designs by Kamisaka Sekka, Kaishi [Kaigai] Tennen and others. These are volumes eleven through... More
1905. [DESIGN] FURUYA KORIN. MATSU ZUKUSHI. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 38 [1905]. Oblong album, 18.3 x 24.9 cm, one page introduction and final colophon page, along with 50 designs on twenty-five pages of color woodcut designs on a pine-tree theme by Furuya Korin, one of the most important of Unsodo's early... More
1710. [BOTANY - JAPANESE] Itō Ihei, author. CHIKINSÔ [VIEW OF THE EARTH'S RAIMENT] 20 volumes. Edo, 1710, 1719 & n.d. [c.1740]. In three series: The first eight volumes are titled ZÔHO CHIKINSÔ; The next eight: KÔEKI CHIKINSÔ and the final four: CHIKINSÔ FUROKU. All small format, 15.5 x 11.1 cm..... More
1931. [BOTANICAL] Murakami Sadao, artist. HANA NO SHIRABE. Kyoto, MARIA Gabo, Showa 6 [1931]. Large publisher's original chitsu clasped case, containing a cloth-covered portfolio with a table of contents of all 50 of the oban sized flower prints by Murakami, printed exquisitely by the MARIA Gabo. Image size 11 x.... More
Sekino Junichirō 関野準一郎, Takei Takeo 武井 武雄 Hashimoto Okiie et al. Editor unknown. Yamataka Noboru 山高登, 橋本興家. n.p. n.d. String bound fukuro toji 20 x 15cm with title slip in Japanese on front cover. A handmade album with a delightful collection of 52 color and monochrome bookplates and stamps by... More
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
[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
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
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
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