HANDLEY CROSS
by SURTEES, R.S.
1892. [SURTEES, R.S.]. HANDLEY CROSS; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [?1890's]. With frontis. and 17 hand-colored engravings on steel and many other engravings on wood. 8vo., 3/4 black morocco, spine in gilt, t.e.g.; 550pp. Front hinge over-opened. Ink ownership. Bookplate. Slight rubbing and nicking at spine and edges, else very good plus.
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PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF MUIR GLACIER AND MORAIN, GLACIER BAY ALASKA
by TABER, I. W.
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 I. W. Taber, 1889." Mount chipped and torn, not affecting image, which is in fine and has warm sepia tones. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) was one of the most... Read More
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HAIKAI SHOKUGYO ZUKUSHI 俳諧職業尽 2 vols
by Tachibana Shozan 橘尚山, artist and Sessuiken/Chasei 雪水軒／茶静, ed
1842. Tachibana Shozan 橘尚山, artist and Sessuiken/Chasei 雪水軒／茶静, ed. HAIKAI SHOKUGYO ZUKUSHI 俳諧職業尽 2 vols. Edo, Tempo 13 [1842] Two volumes 23.4 x 16.6cm string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji in original wrappers with printed paper title slips and housed in a modern clasped chitsu. Unusual and interesting haikai collection, with wonderful Edo Shijo-style illustrations, 30 double-page and 11 single page. The author is Inoue Seishichi, writing under his pen name, Sessuiken. Original woodblock prints, carefully printed in light colors, with Japanese... Read More
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Chikuson Jihitsu Gachō 竹邨自筆画帳
by Tachika Chikuson 田近竹邨
Tachika Chikuson 田近竹邨 Chikuson Jihitsu Gachō 竹邨自筆画帳. N.p. Early 20th century. No colophon. Signed, with artist’s seal. Orihon folding album with fabric boards and gilt edges 24 x 18cm is housed in a modern brown chitsu with clasps 24.5 x 18.5cm. 12 monochrome and color paintings approx. 21.5 x 15.5cm depicting Chinese landscapes are painted on silk and laid down on metallic speckled boards. First and last paintings in the album include Japanese text. This early 20th century work... Read More
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THE ANNALS OF TACITUS
by TACITUS
1882. TACITUS; ed. & annotated by Geo. O. HOLBROOKE. THE ANNALS OF TACITUS. London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. xxiv + [4] + 530 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Spine sunned, soiled; corners bumped. Coated black endpapers. Owner's inkstamp to half-title, ink ownership to title page. Light foxing to title page and last page of publisher's catalogue. Folding colr map frontispiece fine, with foxed tissue guard. In Latin with notes in... Read More
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SASHIE
by TAKAHAMA Kyoshi, editor
1911. TAKAHAMA Kyoshi, editor. SASHIE. Tokyo, Kokado, Meiji 44 [1911]. This is a "saihan" printed a few days after the first impression. Bound Western style in illustrated boards, 8vo., 421+pp. This wonderful book takes its title [ILLUSTRATION] very seriously. It has crammed from beginning to end with illustrations, both color and b+w, printed with machine-based techniques but with a freshness and appealing naivete that the HOTOTOGISU artists were famous for. The full complement of the most important members of... Read More
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SO^TATSU
by (TAKAMIZAWA, Publisher)
1940. (TAKAMIZAWA, Publisher). SOTATSU. Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, Sho^wa 15 [1940]. Small folio, with 172 illustrations and a 9 page biography. Text is entirely in Japanese. Important reference to Sotatsu's work. A number of lovely facsimile woodcuts highlight the volume. Number 387 of 800 copies. Printed paper covered boards with a cloth spine, paper title label. External skinning, rubbing and soiling to binding, with rear hinge starting. Some internal creasing, otherwise clean Good. Takamizawa publications are quite sought after and... Read More
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BAKUMATSU MEIJI BUMMEI KAIKA
by HASHIYAMA Takashi
1979. HASHIYAMA Takashi. BAKUMATSU MEIJI BUMMEI KAIKA. Nagoya: Maspro, Sho^wa 54 [1979] Folio, paper over boards. 222 pp. The first complete study of late ukiyo-e prints from the era of Perry to mid-Meiji [approx 1855-1890]. The text is in Japanese, but the captions of the illustrations are romanised, as well. The text is illustrated in color throughout, much care was taken to ensure the fidelity of the colors reproduced. In fine condition, with the original plastic dustwrapper. ... Read More
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Nihon Gangu-shū 日本玩具集 [Japanese Toys], 3 vols
by Takeda Shin’ichi 武田真一
1917. Takeda Shin’ichi 武田真一. Nihon Gangu-shū 日本玩具集 [Japanese Toys], 3 vols. Taisho 6 [1917]. Two plate volumes 25 x 18cm are bound orihon (folding album) style with patterned paper over board covers, and centered, printed paper title labels. The first album is marked 天 Ten [Upper, “heaven”] and the second is marked 地 Chi [Lower, “earth”]. Decorated inner boards. There are eight pages of prefatory material followed by 78 color woodblock-printed images, some double page, depicting... Read More
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Kōzan Kafu 高山花譜
by Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉, author & Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎, artist
1947. Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉, author & Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎, artist. Kōzan Kafu 高山花譜. Tokyo: Fugaku Honsha 富岳本社. Shōwa 22 昭和22 [1947]. 73 pages. Author and artist hanko are tipped-in to colophon. 28.5 x 20.5 cm, bound western-style (opens Japanese style) with a color, wrap-around woodblock-printed dust wrapper. In modern chitsu with clasps. Foreword by author and botanist Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉 (1883-1972) and afterword by artist Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎. Index with guide to plates with plant names in Latin and... Read More
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Ex Libris Sakuhinshū (Ex Libris 作品集)
by Takei Takeo 武井武雄
Ex Libris Sakuhinshū (Ex Libris 作品集) Takei Takeo 武井武雄 Gohachi, publisher Tokyo 1963 18.5 x 13.5cm volume bound western style and opens Japanese style. Ex Libris collection with the artist’s ex libris color woodblock “title page” in bookplate format tipped onto the front free endpaper. Table of Contents and artist's afterword in Japanese text. Printed title slip on front cover. One of 200 copies printed. A collection of 50 original woodblock... Read More
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Shina Fūkō Zu-e 支那風光図絵
by Takeuchi Seihō 竹内栖鳳, artist
1936. [Print Album] Takeuchi Seihō 竹内栖鳳, artist Shina Fūkō Zu-e 支那風光図絵 Kyoto: Otsuka Kogeisha 大塚巧藝社 Showa 11 [1936] [Print Album] Takeuchi Seihō 竹内栖鳳. Shina Fūkō Zu-e 支那風光図絵. Kyoto, Otsuka Kogeisha 大塚巧藝社, Showa 11 [1936]; #32 of 150cc. Large gold cloth brocade portfolio 43 x 54 cm. Twelve prints of China [ea. 32 x 43 cm image size], wonderfully well printed using a hybrid of collotype with woodcut printed color overlays. Clasped portfolio... Read More
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Yōsei no Kyori 妖精の距離 [Fairy’s Distance]
by Takiguchi Shūzō 瀧口修造, author and Abe Yoshifumi (also Yoshibumi, Abe Nobuya) 阿部芳文 (阿部展也), artist
1937. Takiguchi Shūzō 瀧口修造, author and Abe Yoshifumi (also Yoshibumi, Abe Nobuya) 阿部芳文 (阿部展也), artist. Yōsei no Kyori 妖精の距離 [Fairy’s Distance]. Showa 12 [1937]. Tokyo: Shunchōkai 春鳥会. 30.3 x 24.5cm folio of poetry with a magnifying glass design on the front cover. Three single sheets 30.2 x 24.2cm: one with title page, one with an index and one with a colophon on one side and limitation on the other. 12 folded sheets 30.2 x 24.2cm closed, each with a... Read More
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TAMAHIRO GASHU^
by [DESIGN] Shimomura TAMAHIRO
1925. [DESIGN] Shimomura TAMAHIRO. TAMAHIRO GASHU. Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo, Taisho 14 [1925]. Single sheets cord-bound into illustrated boards with a printed paper title label. 36.2 X 25.3 cm. There are 16 pages of color woodblock printed designs and 30 pages of b+w collotypes. One of the hybrid design books that Unsodo created in the 20s and 30s. Very clean and bright in the original publisher's slipcase. A very unusual and late effort by Tamahiro [1878-1926], an important Unsodo... Read More
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Uchiwa-chō うちは帖
by Tanaka Tōshū 田中濤州, artist
Uchiwa-chō うちは帖 Tanaka Tōshū 田中濤州, artist [大正15 1926] [Fan Design Album] A lovely example of the fan sample genre. 55 color woodblock printed square designs, each 23.5 x 23.5 cm, in ribbon-bound printed cardboard covers with a printed paper title label. The designs are by the designer, Tanaka Tōshū 田中濤州, and the album seems to have been commissioned by him, as well. Bold designs, undated, but research gives the publication date as 大正15, 1926.... Read More
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![Nihon Meisan Zue 日本名山図会 [Famous Mountains in Japan] 3 Vols](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/254/1501254766.0.l.jpg)
Nihon Meisan Zue 日本名山図会 [Famous Mountains in Japan] 3 Vols
by Tani Bunchō 谷文晁
Nihon Meisan Zue 日本名山図会 [Famous Mountains in Japan] 3 Vols Tani Bunchō 谷文晁 C. 1812 Suwaraya Mohei 須原屋茂兵衛, publisher Three 25.8 x 18.4cm ehon volumes are string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji with light blue wrappers and printed title slips in black on white. Vol 1 has 26 double page monochrome woodblock prints, Vol 2 has 30 and Vol 3 has 34, by artist Tani Bunchō (1763-1840). The work is well-known for its accurate representation of the mountains depicted.... Read More
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Seiyô SOKA ZUFU 西洋草花図譜
by Tanigami Kônan 谷上廣南, artist
1917. [EHON] Tanigami Kônan 谷上廣南, artist. Seiyô SOKA ZUFU 西洋草花図譜. Kyoto: Unsôdô 芸艸堂, Taishô 6 [1917]. 5 volumes. Orihon folding albums, each 27.8 x 18.8 cm, in green boards with printed paper title labels. There are two "Spring" volumes, bound separately, two "Summer" volumes, then "Fall" & "Winter" are bound together with a cover uniform with the other four and an appropriate publisher's title slip. They are in a custom fitted chitsu clasped case with a supplied title label. Each... Read More
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SIGNED LETTER TO SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MCADOO, 1916
by TARBELL, Ida M.
1916. TARBELL, Ida M. SIGNED LETTER TO SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MCADOO, 1916, REFUSING A POSITION ON THE TARIFF COMMISSION. One page, one side, 8 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches, blue personal stationery with Tarbell's address. Typed. Letter creased horizontally and vertically, two corners slightly creased. Overall very good condition. In this letter, dated December 30, 1916, Tarbell graciously declines the Secretary's proposal (via Wilson) that she serve on the Tariff Commission: "...I hope that you know that I... Read More
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LES ETAINS FRANCAIS
by TARDY
1964. TARDY. LES ETAINS FRANCAIS. Paris: Tardy, 1964. 198 + 113-1030 + 1 pp. Thick 8vo., stiff wrappers with glossy dust jacket. Light soil to jacket spine, a few small closed tears to edges. Some faint age toning to page edges. B/w frontispiece. "1 carte des generalites. 1600 lieux. 7800 nomes cites. 1825 poincons. 745 documents.
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![[Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] [Painting of a potter and her kiln]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/790/363/252363790.0.l.1.jpg)
[Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] [Painting of a potter and her kiln]
by Ōta Saburo 太田三郎, artist
19. [Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] Ōta Saburo 太田三郎, artist [Painting of a potter and her kiln] [Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] Ōta Saburo 太田三郎, artist. [Painting of a potter and her kiln]. Image size 36.8 X 42.1 cm. Original mounting. The painting is sealed by Ōta Saburo 太田三郎 (1884-1969), a student of the early western-style oil painter Kuroda Seiki 黒田清輝 (1866-1924) and a master in his own right. Perhaps Ōta’s most famous work is the... Read More
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THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OTHER POEMS
by TATE, Allen
1936. TATE, Allen. THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OTHER POEMS. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1936. A signed first edition, but out-of-series and unbound, sent as a review copy. Uncut and unbound sheets, signed by Tate on the colophon, but unnumbered, and sent to Eugene A. Davidson, editor of the Yale Review, with a review slip laid-in. The sheets have browned along the edges, with corner creasing to a couple of leaves. Housed in a manilla envelope upon which Tate has... Read More
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PICTURESQUE EUROPE, VOLS. II AND III
by TAYLOR, Bayard
1878. TAYLOR, Bayard, ed. PICTURESQUE EUROPE: A DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE NATURAL FEATURES AND THE PICTURESQUE AND HISTORICAL PLACES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT, VOLS. II AND III. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1878-1879. iv + 460 pp. + 22 steel engravings/iv + 491 pp. + 20 steel engravings. Folio, half black morocco stamped in gilt and blind with raised bands, red marbled paper covered boards. Leather and boards quite worn, chipped/scraped in some... Read More
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KYÔKA SUMIDAGAWA MEISHÔ ZUKAI 狂歌隅田川名所図会 Tôgan no Bu. 東岸の部
by TEISAI [Katsushika Hokuba].葛飾北馬
1823. [EHON] TEISAI [Katsushika Hokuba].葛飾北馬 KYÔKA SUMIDAGAWA MEISHÔ ZUKAI 狂歌隅田川名所図会 Tôgan no Bu. 東岸の部 Bunsei 6 [1823]. Shunsui-en Zôhan. This is the "east bank" volume. The colophon lists the "west bank" volume as being issued soon, but there is no record of it surviving. A lovely rendition of the banks of the Sumida trope, here illustrated by Hokusai's talented student, Hokuba. A very nice impression in sumi-e with 6 double page images. Complete as issued in the original hand-painted covers... Read More
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WORKS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, BART
by TEMPLE, William
1720. (SWIFT, Jonathan, ed.) TEMPLE, William. WORKS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, BART.: To Which Is Prefix'd Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. London: A. Churchill, T. Goodwin, J. Knapton., et al., 1720. 2 Volumes. [xii] 480 pp.; [viii], 585 pp. Frontispiece portrait in Vol. 1. Folio, worn contemporary leather, joints cracked, but a solid set. Early ink ownership on title-pages. William Temple (1628-1699) was an English statesman deeply involved in the international events of his... Read More
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