Other Books and So postcard invitation for –Original Books– Raul Marroquin (30 March-17 April 1976)
by (MARROQUIN, Raul)
Postcard, printed on one side only, opening information rubber-stamped in red ink on verso, mailed & postmarked. Amsterdam: 1976. Rare Other Books and So invitation; mailed to the Dutch collector and Fluxus adherent Tjeerd Deelstra (b. 1937). The Colombian video artist Raul Marroquin (b. 1948) and Ulises Carrión (1941-89) worked together on a number of projects. This exhibition began with “film projections” the night of the opening. Marroquin exhibited at the bookstore-cum-gallery space once more, in November 1976.... Read More
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![Orihon (accordion) album, entitled on manuscript label on upper cover “Masukagami” [“24 Influential Women, Gathered”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/966/677/1697677966.0.l.jpg)
Orihon (accordion) album, entitled on manuscript label on upper cover “Masukagami” [“24 Influential Women, Gathered”]
by MASUKAGAMI 万寿喜賀美
24 beautiful & richly colored paintings (each 210 x 271 mm.), each mounted on highly decorated boards. Oblong 4to (254 x 315 mm.), orig. silk brocade (somewhat worn) over covers, richly decorated endpapers with landscapes, mists, & clouds of gold (kindei) or patterns of cut gold. [Japan]: mid-Edo. A magnificent album of paintings of 24 Japanese women, glorious or tragic, in mythology, literature, and history. Their highly cultured lives represent the qualities of bravery, endurance, intelligence, devotion,... Read More
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A Booke of the Arte and maner how to Plant and Graffe all sorts of Trees, how to set Stones & sow Pepins, to make wyld trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. With divers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce...wyth an addition in the ende of this book, of certayne Dutch practices, set forth and Englished by…
by MASCALL, Leonard
Woodcut vignette on title, one full-page woodcut, & several smaller woodcuts in the text. Black letter. 11 p.l., 88, [10] pp. Small 4to, late 18th cent. calf (upper joint cracked but strong, small paper flaw on blank outer margin of title, fore-edges faintly dampstained), spine lettered in gilt. London: J. Wight, 1575. The third edition of the first English gardening manual; the first edition appeared in 1569 and all 16th-century printings are rather rare on the market. Mascall... Read More
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From the inside cover, lettered in gilt: H. Gruson Eisengiesserei & Maschinenfabrik Buckau–Magdeburg. Hartguss–Panzerthürme
by H. GRUSON EISENGIESSEREI & MASCHINENFABRIK
26 (of 30?) albumen photographs (all ca. 215 x 160 mm.), mounted on boards within frames printed in red, all images with printed titles on the boards (410 x 320 mm.). Numbered 501 to 530 but lacking (?) nos. 506, 507, 511, & 525, signed: “Photographie des H. Gruson’schen Ateliers.“ Oblong folio, orig. green leather portfolio, panelled in gilt with leather wreath, with metal crest in center of upper cover. Buckau, near Magdeburg: n.d. [but 1872-76]. From the... Read More
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![Catalogue de la Bibliothéque d'un Amateur, avec des Notes et une Table Générale des Auteurs et des Matières. [Compiled by Louis François Antoine Gaudefroy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/342/923342778.0.l.jpg)
Catalogue de la Bibliothéque d'un Amateur, avec des Notes et une Table Générale des Auteurs et des Matières. [Compiled by Louis François Antoine Gaudefroy]
by MAT, Pierre Joseph de, Bookseller
2 p.l., iv, lxxxviii, 20, 318 pp.; 2 p.l., 319-808 pp. Two vols. 8vo, cont. calf-backed marbled boards (some foxing as is usual to first & final leaves), flat spines gilt. Brussels: P.J. de Mat, 1823. The bookseller Mat’s catalogue of a fine anonymous private collection, compiled and edited by Gaudefroy (1758-1839), the French bibliographer. There are 6918 items described including a goodly number of important 15th and 16th century books. The sections on science, medicine, and natural... Read More
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![Nisshinkan dojikun [Nisshinkan School Injunctions]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/007/383/1451383007.0.l.0.jpg)
Nisshinkan dojikun [Nisshinkan School Injunctions]
by MATSUDAIRA, Katanobu
66; 45 folding leaves. Two vols. Large 8vo, orig. pale blue wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. [Aizu Fiefdom]: Preface & Afterword dated 1803. First edition and very rare; WorldCat lists only one copy, at Harvard. Matsudaira (1744-1805), fifth in the daimyo line of the Aizu domain (now in parts of the Fukushima and Niigata Prefectures), was imbued with Neo-Confucian idealism. The Aizu domain “used this text as a primer [consisting of 53... Read More
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![Manuscript on paper, entitled “Nenjū gyōji kojitsu kō” 年中行事故實考 [“Examination of Old Customs Carried Out During the Year”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/750/508/1603508750.0.l.jpg)
Manuscript on paper, entitled “Nenjū gyōji kojitsu kō” 年中行事故實考 [“Examination of Old Customs Carried Out During the Year”]
by MATSUDAIRA, Kunzan 松平君山 (Shiryū 士龍)
26 hand-colored brush & ink illus. 89; 78 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo (245 x 170 mm.), orig. wrappers (a little frayed), old stitching. [Japan]: 1742 (date of Preface). A late Edo copy of this well-known work of ethnography, which has never been published. Matsudaira proceeds chronologically, covering the calendar year and its festivals. For example, the book covers the “seven kinds of porridge” eaten at the time of the New Year in the Nara... Read More
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![Five illustrated handscrolls on paper, entitled on the oldish wooden box “Kasō maki” 家相巻 [“House Physiognomy”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/693/477/1702477693.0.l.jpg)
Five illustrated handscrolls on paper, entitled on the oldish wooden box “Kasō maki” 家相巻 [“House Physiognomy”]
by MATSUURA, Tokei 松浦東渓 (or Hisanobu 久信)
16 ink & brush diagrammatic illus. Five scrolls (details below), all with silk brocade outer front endpapers & gold speckled inner endpapers, with manuscript title labels. [Japan]: mid- to late Edo (at the end of each scroll we have the signature of Matsuura & two of his seals). Feng shui arrived in Japan from China in the 6th-7th centuries and soon became formalized by the Onmyōryō (Bureau of Yin-Yang), which managed divination, cosmology, and geomancy. Over several... Read More
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Exhibition postcard: Yutaka Matsuzawa (opens 27 May 1975)
by (MATSUZAWA, Yutaka)
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Poznan: Galeria Akumulatory, 1975. Postcard invitation to Matsuzawa’s 1975 show in Poland, with a text by the artist on the recto. Near fine.
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![Từ bi đạo tràng mục liên sám pháp 慈悲道場目連懺法 [Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of Maudgalyāyana]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/572/1680572124.0.l.jpg)
Từ bi đạo tràng mục liên sám pháp 慈悲道場目連懺法 [Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of Maudgalyāyana]
by MAUDGALYĀYANA, The Story of
Two full-page frontis. woodcuts, printed on each side of first leaf of Vol. I & one full-page woodcut on final leaf of Vol. II. 61.5; 107 folding leaves. Three parts in two vols. 8vo (287 x 171 mm.), orig. wrappers (Vol. I) & modern wrappers (Vol. II), stitched (orig. stitching in Vol. I). Quần phương hạ xã: Anh quang tự, 1928. First edition of this very rare Vietnamese edition of the story of Maudgalyāyana. The journey of... Read More
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Special Collections
by MCDOWALL, John & TAYLOR, Chris, curators
Many illus. 61, [1] p. Large 4to, orig. printed semi-stiff covers. Leeds: Wild Pansy Press, 2007. Scarce catalogue for the wide-ranging exhibition at the University Gallery, Leeds juxtaposing books from across the centuries. Books and publications by Ruscha, Sugimoto, Helen Douglas, Richard Long, Dieter Roth, Boltanski, Lippard, Joan Lyons, Jonathan Monk, etc., were shown alongside Kitao Masayoshi, Hokusai, Sukenobu, Duchamp, and several other antiquarian materials. This volume includes essays by the curators, Ellis Tinios, Gaye Smith, Yann Sérandour,... Read More
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Exhibition postcard: Bruce McLean: Resting Again. Please don’t let me crease my coat (opens 6 March 1972)
by (MCLEAN, Bruce)
Illus. to recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard. Milan: Francoise Lambert, 1972. Postcard invitation for McLean’s first exhibition with Lambert in Milan. In fine condition. ❧ Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2010), p. 369.
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![[Bruce McLean + Richard Sladden] Bei Konrad Fischer (3-29 September [1969]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/871/1603871722.0.l.jpg)
[Bruce McLean + Richard Sladden] Bei Konrad Fischer (3-29 September [1969]
by (MCLEAN, Bruce & SLADDEN, Richard)
Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details to verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, [1969]. Postcard for an early Konrad Fischer exhibition, unusual in that it featured two artists. Fischer’s earliest shows were nearly all solo presentations. Near fine. Mailed to H. Klinker of Bochum-Stiebel. ❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 24.
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Surf’s Up
by MCWHINNIE, John, curator
Photographic color illus. Unpaginated. 4to, pictorial softcover with flaps. East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2001. A special association copy, inscribed by McWhinnie and the photographers Michael Halsband and Mike Solomon, to Glenn Horowitz and his wife Tracey. In fine condition.
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![Đại thừa vô lượng nghĩa kinh 大乘無量義經 [Ch. Da cheng wu liang yi jing; The Mahayana Sutra of Infinite Meanings, T. 276]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/169/276/1751276169.0.l.jpg)
Đại thừa vô lượng nghĩa kinh 大乘無量義經 [Ch. Da cheng wu liang yi jing; The Mahayana Sutra of Infinite Meanings, T. 276]
by THE SUTRA OF INFINITE MEANINGS
Woodblock-printed. 27 joined sheets (numbered except 3 & 27), 62.5 folding leaves, red edges. Tall narrow 8vo, bound between wooden boards. Hà Nội: Kì vũ tự 祈雨寺, 1889 (date of publisher's colophon; copy perhaps printed in 1922). A beautiful and rare example of Vietnamese printing in the accordion ("sutra-binding" or orihon) format. We find no Vietnamese edition of this sutra in WorldCat, and only the later, 1906 edition is listed in the Vietnamese Han-Nom Literature Database, surviving... Read More
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Catalogue des Estampes des plus grands maitres, Tableaux, Bagues, Livres, Vases, Idoles, &c. qui composent la Collection de…
by (MECHETTI, Carlo or Charles)
viii, 120 pp. 4to, cont. pale blue paper wrappers (spine defective). Vienna: La Société Typographique, 1790. The uncommon sale catalogue of the collections formed by the founder of the famous Viennese music publisher. Originally from Lucca, Mechetti (c. 1745-1811), encountered financial troubles and was forced to sell his collection of thousands of items, primarily Italian prints and paintings. In the introduction, Mechetti highlights certain pieces in his collection, which was apparently not for sale by auction but rather... Read More
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Manuscripts on paper, all concerned with equine medicine, all finely written in one hand on stiff paper
by EQUINE MEDICINE
Seven vols. 8vo (218 x 160 mm.), orig. wrappers, each with an individual title label on upper cover, new stitching. [Japan: all late Edo]. A fascinating collection of texts on equine medicine, all bound in a similar fashion: Vol. 1: Manuscript label on upper cover, entitled “Basho hijutsu den” [“Horse Book Secret Methods Passed On”]. Nine brush & ink illus. in the text. 31 folding leaves. This text is concerned with exercising horses in each season, and... Read More
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Bibliotheca Menckeniana, quae Autores praecipue Veteres Graecos et Lat. Historiae item Literariae, Eccl. et Civilis, Antiquitatum ac Rei Nummariae scriptores, Philologos, Oratores, Poetas et Codices MSS. complectitur..
by (MENCKE, Otto & Johann Burckhard)
Engraved frontis. port. of J.B. Mencke. Title printed in red & black. 8 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 876 pp., [82] leaves. Thick 8vo, orig. limp boards (occasional minor foxing), uncut. Leipzig, J.F. Gleditsch & Son, 1727. Second edition, much enlarged (1st ed.: 1723) and a very lovely copy in original state; this was a very influential catalogue and was considered in its time to be the model of a universal bibliography. The Menckeniana is a catalogue of a specialized... Read More
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Catalogue d’une jolie Collection… (22 December 1826)
by (MENIERE, [Paul Nicolas])
14 pp. 8vo, 19th-cent. marbled boards (spine defective). Paris: 1826. A very rare auction catalogue, dispersing the collection of Menière (1745-1826), a jeweller who served as joaillier du Roi for several decades; WorldCat locates no example in North America. His choice collection is inventoried across 65 lots; the prices for paintings have been added by a contemporary annotator. The auction was held at Menière’s home at 6 rue d’Angoulême. A good copy of this rarity; wear to... Read More
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Le Peintre amateur et curieux, ou Description générale des Tableaux des plus habiles Maîtres, qui font l'ornement des Eglises, Couvents, Abbayes, Prieurés & Cabinets particuliers dans l'étendue des Pays-Bas autrichiens
by MENSAERT, Guillaume Pierre
Engraved frontis. 4 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 283 pp.; 1 p.l., 144, [8] pp. Two vols. in one. Small 8vo, cont. polished calf (head of spine a bit chipped), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine (label a trifle chipped). Brussels: P. de Bast, 1763. First edition of the classic 18th-century survey of art in the Austrian Low Countries; it remains a useful book as it describes many works of art and collections now destroyed or dispersed. ... Read More
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Kurtze Beschreibung Dess Erschröcklichen Cometen so im Monat Decembr. dess 1680. Jahrs erschienen, Auff vielfältiges Begehren auffgesetzet…von M.B.M.P.M.P.
by [MENTZER, Balthasar]
Finely engraved vignette on title (inner portion of image slightly obscured by the wrapper). [4] leaves. Small 4to, modern wrappers. Frankfurt: 1680. First edition of one of the earliest publications on the famous comet of 1680-81. Apart from its brightness, this comet is notable as the first to be observed using a telescope (by Gottfried Kirch in Coburg). Other well-known observers included Robert Hooke, Flamsteed, Newton, and John Evelyn. Mentzer (1651-1727), was professor of mathematics at the... Read More
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Itinera Sex a diversis Saxoniæ Ducibus et Electoribus, diversis temporibus in Italiam omnia, tria etiam in Palaestinam…facta, vna cum brevi Narratione, quæ ibi relatu digna viderint, & quæ inde domum secum reportarint. Additis iis, quæ etiamnum Hierosolymis præsertim, Romæ & Wittenbergæ ab advenis observari maxime merentur
by MENZ, Balthasar, the younger (not the elder)
Woodcut port. of the author on verso of title & several woodcuts in the text. Title within typographical border. 12 p.l. (last leaf a blank), 348, [4] pp. Small thick 8vo, cont. vellum over boards, stamped in blind on upper cover “M N H L” & “1613.” Wittenberg: W. Meisner at the expense of C. Berger, [date of Foreword “1612“]. [bound with]: MATENESIUS, Johann Friedrich. Critices Christianae Libri Duo de Ritu Bibendi super Sanitate, Pontificum, Caesarum, Principum,... Read More
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A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings from the Collection of… at Stubbings House, Maidenhead. By Alfred Scharf
by (MERTON, Thomas Ralph)
Frontis. & 33 plates. 78 pp. Large 4to, orig. crimson half-morocco & cloth, orig. printed dust jacket (a few inoffensive tears). London: Chiswick Press, 1950. The specially bound copy for the author of this privately printed catalogue. Merton (1888-1969), was a scientist specializing in spectroscopic research and was knighted in 1944 for his work during World War II. Merton’s small but sophisticated collection focused on early pictures from between 1450 and 1520. The catalogue describes 32... Read More
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Exhibition postcard: Gerhard Merz 1979 (5 May-4 June 1979)
by (MERZ, Gerhard)
Color illus. on recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1979. Postcard invitation to Merz’s second show at the Kabinett. In fine condition. Mailed to graphic designer Wim Crouwel’s firm Total-Designe. ❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992).
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Exhibition postcard: Mario Merz (opens 6 April 1977)
by (MERZ, Mario)
Printed on recto only. Thick paper postcard, mailed. Genoa: Salvatore Ala, 1977. Invitation to Merz’s 1977 show with Salvatore Ala (1941-2014). Ala founded his gallery in Milan in 1974 and hosted exhibitions for Boetti, Kounellis, and a number of Arte Povera artists. Keith Haring’s first Milan exhibition was held at Ala’s gallery. This example of the postcard invitation is particularly interesting because it was mailed to another important art dealer of the period, John Weber. ... Read More
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