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Manuscript on paper, entitled on the upper wrapper. One full-page manuscript map, in brush & ink, of the eight major roads or provinces of Korea & many tables in the text. 111 numbered folding leaves. Small folio (302 x 215), orig. patterned wrappers (wrappers a little soiled & wormed), stitched as issued. [Korea: 18th or 19th century]. Manuscript gazetteer describing Chosŏn Korea, which was referred to as "the East" (tung 東) or the "Eastern kingdom" (tungguk 東國) before the 20th century. Our manuscript was written between 1694 (we find that date in the text) and 1895, when the eight provinces shown on the map on leaf 45b were abolished. The word "gazetteer" is used in reference to a genre of East Asian historical and geographical texts known as (di)fang zhi (地)方志 in China and ŭpchi 邑志, both translating roughly to "local treatises." The now rare word "gazetteer" is used in analogy with a similar genre that existed in British India. Treatises dedicated to the geography,… Leer más

Ten columns per page, 21 characters per column. Two sizes of type. 38 folding leaves. Large 8vo (321 x 200 mm.), orig. brown patterned wrappers, new stitching. [Seoul]: Pich'ŏndang 丕闡堂 Building, Sŏnggyun'gwan [today's Sungkyunkwan University], 1872. First edition and very rare; WorldCat lists only the Berkeley copy. "Scroll" is clearly used here as a figure of speech, as this is a codex-style book, printed using movable (metal or wooden?) type in 1872. Sungkyunkwan, established in 1398, was the highest educational institution in Chosŏn Korea. It is now the sight of an eponymous university. The location of the printing of this book was Pich'ŏndang, a building at Sungkyunkwan. In the interview described in the title, the young king Kojong (1852-1919, ruled 1864-1907) was querying his subjects on Confucius's Analects. Different sources give somewhat different information on the set of type used. The online catalogue for Changsŏgak (Jangseogak), which has a copy, says that wooden type was… Leer más

46; 45; 46; 45.5 folding leaves. Four vols. Large 8vo, orig. patterned brown semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled & stained), orig. stitching. [Korea]: probably 19th century. Undated edition of this collection of lists giving biographical data for notable personages from Korea, the "Eastern Kingdom." The individuals are divided into categories, such as "high officials," "famous servants of the throne," and "scholars." The last chapter of the book contains a list of institutions. The chapter on scholars opens with a brief biography of the famous medieval scholar Sŏl Chong 薛聰, who "explained the nine classics in the local language and in addition wrote history and prose" 以方言解九經又製史文. The statement about the use of "local language" (i.e., Korean) to read the classical Chinese Confucian canon comes from Samguk sagi 三國史記 [Historical Record of the Three Kingdoms, 1145] and is reproduced here for a Chosŏn readership. The Lettered Worthies of the Eastern Kingdom… Leer más

2 p.l., 209 pp. 8vo, modern quarter morocco & marbled boards. Montpellier: J.F. Picot, 1783. First edition of one of Chaptal's earliest books, written while he occupied the newly created chair of chemistry at Montpellier. "This is an extract of Chaptal's lectures at Montpellier prepared for the use of his students."-Cole 268. Fine copy printed on thick paper. ❧ Duveen, p. 129. Neville, I, p. 264.

69; 84; 102 folding leaves. 30 parts in three vols. Large 8vo (306 x 202 mm.), orig. patterned yellow-brown wrappers, new stitching. [Korea]: final volume with date 1903. A rare metal movable type edition printed at the Ministry of Justice in Seoul in 1903 using a font cut in 1816. The text was originally compiled in Chosŏn Korea on royal command in ca. 1440. The earliest edition that can be confidently dated was printed by woodblocks in Kyŏngju in 1536. The text explains the descriptions of crimes and punishments contained in the Great Ming Code, which was the penal code of the Chinese Ming empire (1368-1644). This book, in the form in which we now have it, is the result of a series of revisions in the late 14th century. It represents an important moment in Chinese legal history, as a kind of legal Renaissance, in that it was deliberately modeled on the centuries-old Tang code, whereas the preceding Mongol Yuan empire had not had an official Chinese legal code. The Ming legal code was very… Leer más

Printed in black ink with 12 illustrations in red ink. 82 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers (some foxing), orig. stitching. [China]: [1921?] A rare edition of a Daoist scripture received by Dong Lin 董淋 through so-called planchette or spirit writing. The "great unity," referring to the pole star, is an important deity in Daoism. In spirit writing, the text is received by a medium who writes characters that are then interpreted. Our book contains explanations of schematic figures which are not regular Chinese characters. There is also a series of diagrams in red ink that might be Daoist talismans. The upper margin contains a commentary by Huidi. A stamp on the outside cover states that you are not allowed to read the book without the proper training. A note at the beginning of the book specifies that the text was received at the spirit-writing altar in Ji'nan in the 12th month of the gengshen year, which should correspond to early in 1921. Fine copy.

65 full-page & four double-page woodcuts. 32; 57; 53; 59 folding leaves. Four vols. 8vo, orig. gray wrappers (wrappers a little tired), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto: Sawada Kichizaemon 澤田吉左衞門, 1703. Rare edition of this guide to a famous Japanese Pure Land mandala. In the Preface to our book, dated 1702 (Genroku 15), Gizan recounts how his old friend, the lay believer Mujin 無塵, who had obtained a supreme paint powder in nine shades as a gift from the deity Kuma no gongen 熊野権現 when a rock split next to his house, wanted to use it to paint a mandala for Chion-in temple 知恩院, the center of the Pure Land school. Mujin was allowed to see and copy old mandalas that were specifically taken out of storage for him. Gizan, who was affiliated with Chion-in, saw the mandala and noticed many differences with transmitted copies of the same motif. He therefore wrote the present book, which contains illustrations and explanations. Taima… Leer más

Two full-page & 50 double-page color-printed woodcuts. 30.5; 28 folding leaves. Two vols. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, orig. title slips on upper covers, new stitching. Osaka: Shibakawa Mataemon 芝川又右衛門, 1888. First edition of this beautifully illustrated natural history book. It is rare: WorldCat 673623988 lists only the National Diet Library copy. Kondō (fl. 1830-50), a student of the prominent Kyoto painter Kishi Ganku (1756-1838), became well known by the early 1830s and was mentioned in the Heian Jinbutsu Shi edition (a Japanese Who's Who of prominent people). Kondō's art was acknowledged to have surpassed that of his teacher, but sadly Kondō died relatively young, sometime in the mid to late 1850s. While Kondō was primarily a painter, he did execute some woodblock illustrations. The publisher, Shibakawa, a wealthy Osaka merchant and one-time art pupil of Kondō, collected the drawings, sketches, and albums made by Kondō. Following Kondō's death, Shibakawa engaged… Leer más

Illus. throughout. [18] pp. Oblong 4to, brown printed wrappers, staple-bound. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, 1976. Scarce photographic artist's book by Braco Dimitrijevic (b. 1948), printed in an edition of 500 copies. It was published by Jürgen Wesseler's Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst in cooperation with the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. The book documents the artist's correspondence with the scandalous Lord Weymouth which then led to Dimitrijevic's visit to Longleat to see Weymouth's erotic murals. The final pairing of photographs juxtaposes Longleat House and the modest building in which Dimitrijevic's studio was located. In fine condition.

58 folding leaves, 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: 1921 (date of colophon). First edition of this fragmentary medieval rhyme book, reproduced here in a facsimile lithographic reprint of Wang Guowei's handwriting. Rhyme books are a kind of Chinese dictionary, in which characters are arranged according to their pronunciation. Because of this arrangement, they can be used to study the sound system of the language used at the time they were compiled. Characters that no longer rhyme in modern Chinese might still do so in medieval rhyme books, providing precious data for historical linguistics. During the Qing period, the earliest rhyme book accessible to scholars was Guangyun 廣韻 [Expanded Rhymes] from 1008 CE. In the early 20th century, even earlier sources came to light, most prominent of which was Qieyun 切韻 [Spelled Rhymes] from 601 CE. In our book, leading Republican-era intellectual Wang Guowei transcribes three fragmentary manuscripts of Qieyun held at the Bibliothèque… Leer más

[20] leaves. Small 8vo (178 x 115 mm.), orig. black printed dust-jacket, perfect-bound. Geneva, Switzerland: Ateliers Typographiques Héros-Limite, 1995. The very rare second edition of Carrión's beguiling bookwork composed of bound wallpaper samples, one of the artist's lesser-known books, due to its rarity. The 1973 first edition, published by the artists' space In-Out Center, was made in an edition of 50 numbered copies. The present work is one of 52 copies, 26 of which are lettered A-Z, the rest numbered 27 to 52; our copy is no. 42. This book is part of a series of re-publications that Juan J. Agius, an executor of Carrión's estate, undertook to replicate the increasingly scarce and fragile bookworks Ulises Carrión (1941-89) created in the 70s. Under the imprint of Editions Héros-Limite in Geneva, Agius produced second editions of Mirror Box (1st ed.: 1979), Looking for Poetry / Tras la Poesía (1st ed.: 1973), Arguments (1st ed.: 1973), and the present bookwork. "In Ulises Carrión's… Leer más

Ten cards (181 x 50 mm.), all preserved in the orig. folded color-printed wrapper, entitled on upper panel Furyu e tanzaku [Elegantly Illustrated Tanzaku Cards]. [Japan: Meiji Era]. Ten erotic cards, issued together, each in the tanzaku ban format, and accompanied by their original color-printed wrapper. Tanzaku cards were popular in the Meiji era (1868-1912); see Rosina Buckland's "Erotic Art of the Meiji Era (1868-1912)" in Timothy Clark et al., eds., Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (British Museum: 2013), pp. 454-55. The upper panel of each is very finely color-printed with saturated inks, embossing, and rich use of metallic pigments, revealing the Japanese printer's art at its best. They all depict men and women engaged in a series of sexual acts. The woodblock-printed lower panels feature the conversations of the couples while engaged in their sexual acts and kyoka poems, which are rich in sexual innuendos and racy double-meanings. The original wrapperthat contains the ten cards has… Leer más

Thirty-two folding engraved plates & one folding printed table. Title in red & black. 8 p.l., xlviii, [12], 193 pp.; 192, [14] pp. Two parts in one vol. Large 4to, cont. calf (joints very slightly rubbed), spine nicely gilt, contrasting morocco lettering piece on spine. Leyden: J. & H. Verbeek, 1731. First edition. This book contains the first description of the pyrometer, an instrument for measuring the expansion of solid bodies under the influence of heat. Like many of Musschenbroek's books, the Tentamina contains fine illustrations and is concerned with experiments in measuring humidity, magnets and electricity, air pressure, the structure of ice, heat and cold, capillarity, optics, the motion of sound, etc. Musschenbroek (1692-1761), professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht and, later, professor of experimental physics at Leyden, was one of the most celebrated physicists and most important investigators of his time. The experiments described in his books… Leer más

Thirty-two folding engraved plates & one folding printed table. Title in red & black. 8 p.l., xlviii, [12], 193 pp.; 192, [14] pp. Two parts in one vol. Large 4to, cont. calf (rebacked, part of lower cover stained somewhat darker), coat-of-arms in gilt on both covers of Sir George Savile of Rufford. Leyden: J. & H. Verbeek, 1731. First edition. This book contains the first description of the pyrometer, an instrument for measuring the expansion of solid bodies under the influence of heat. Like many of Musschenbroek's books, the Tentamina contains fine illustrations and is concerned with experiments in measuring humidity, magnets and electricity, air pressure, the structure of ice, heat and cold, capillarity, optics, the motion of sound, etc. Musschenbroek (1692-1761), professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht and, later, professor of experimental physics at Leyden, was one of the most celebrated physicists and most important investigators of his time. The… Leer más

Three frontis. & 21 double-page color-printed woodblock illus. 16; 12.5; 13.5 folding leaves. 12mo (113 x 80 mm.), orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers with images of rabbits, snowflakes, & flowers, labels on upper covers with motif of flowers, old stitching. [Japan]: late Edo or early Meiji. A very rare small-format erotic work, written by Ikkadō Injin 逸桂堂淫人 and illustrated by Kaikōtei Shujin 開好亭主人, both clearly pen names. These volumes are very finely illustrated with the theme of "snow, moon, and flower." The artist was very accomplished, and the images are highly complex and skilled. The volumes use almost all of the techniques that make Japanese illustrated books so remarkable. This late shunga is richly colored and employs bokashi, the delicate variation of shading of pigment within the image; blind-embossing; and the very ample use of gold, silver, and copper pigments. The depicted garments are a mixture of extremely complex textures, colors, and patterns, all… Leer más

[54] sheets (most A4 format), loose as issued, housed in orig. brown printed & stamped folder. Budapest: Artpool, 1980. One of 300 copies, the first Hungarian portfolio of assembled art. It was edited and designed by György Galántai (b. 1941) of the Artpool Art Research Center, a haven for Eastern European avant-garde movements established in 1979 in Budapest. Each artist contributed a pagework, there are a total of 52 contributions (two consist of two sheets), resulting in an astonishing range of creations. Interventions based on the titular prompt have been made with photographic prints, tears, folds, pencil and ink drawings, stamp impressions, collage, stencil, watercolor, photocopies, etc. It includes artists, many involved with the mail art network, from West Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Poland, Switzerland, United States, Belgium, and Yugoslavia. Artists: John Furnival, Piet Franzen, Anikó Bajko, András Bán, Eva Fáy, György Galántai, Lujza Gecser, Judit… Leer más

Many double & single-page illus. of tricks in the text. 30 leaves (of 33, apparently lacking the advertisement leaves at end). 8vo, orig. blue wrappers (rather rubbed & tired), orig. block-printed title label on upper cover (rubbed), modern stitching. [Osaka: Preface dated 1825 but probably published in 1849]. First edition of this charmingly illustrated work on Japanese magic. Jipposha (active 1844-49), was the author of two other magic books, both also published in the 1840s. Following the very witty preface, the author describes 35 tricks, each depicted in the text. The illustrations are particularly lively and clever. Some of the tricks include: how to have a raccoon deliver sake, shadow tricks and illusions, making instant ice, creating a bright light at night in order to spot money on the pavement, lifting many heavy coins with a thin piece of paper, "cutting" sake into two pieces, attaching a tea cup on a pillar, catching fire flies, shadow play, making ghosts appear, water tricks, making the… Leer más

Many fine full-page color illustrations (one folding, one double-page). Folio, orig. cloth-backed decorated boards (spine faded). San Francisco: [Printed at the Grabhorn Press for] The Book Club of California, 1962. Limited to 400 copies. Fine copy.

Two vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1935. Facsimile edition of this work on the conflict between the Jurchen Jin and the Chinese Song. The texts, produced during the Jin empire, comprise chronologically arranged state documents in various genres, including letters between the Jin and the Song. "Some materials do not have counterparts on the Song side, and since they originate with Jin writers, they can be used comparatively alongside Song sources. The collection is of very great value for research on the history of the Jin-Song conflict" (Yao & Yao, Tang-Song lishi biji luncong, 726-27). For a long time, there were no printed editions of the Record. When the Qing court scholars put together the great manuscript library Siku quanshu 四庫全書 [Complete Books of the Four Repositories] in the 1770s, they recovered a manuscript edition from the Yongle dadian 永樂大典 [The Great Canon of the (Reign of) Eternal Happiness], a then little used… Leer más

Created by Kabashima Katsuichi 樺島 勝一, artist & Oda Shōsei 織田小星, author. Each vol. with numerous black & white woodcuts. 32 vols. (listed below). 12mo, orig. color-printed wrappers. Osaka: Enomoto Shoten 榎本書店, 1925-26. In these very rare examples of early manga, Shōchan and his friends visit strange countries and worlds, where they encounter bizarre fantasy creatures. "Shōchan was 'born' on January 25, 1923 (the twelfth year of the Taishō period: the 'Shō' in 'Shōchan' is the 'shō' in Taishō, so the boy was the same age as the era), on the children's page of the new daily (later weekly) tabloid Asahi Graph. Its editor asked Kabashima Katsuichi [1888-1963] and Oda Shōsei [1889-1967] to create a new picture story with a Japanese hero and an animal companion. Oda had recently returned to Japan after years of foreign travel and gave Shōchan his own adventuresome spirit. Kabashima was already an established professional illustrator, familiar with the work of Aubrey… Leer más