Remarks on the Superinduction of Anaesthesia in Natural and Morbid Parturition: with Cases illustrative of the Use and Effects of Chloroform in Obstetric Practice
by SIMPSON, James Y.
48 pages. 8vo, later brown half morocco, orig. upper printed wrapper bound-in. Boston: W.B. Little, 1848. First American edition. The important appendix, first printed in this edition, starts with a long letter by J.C. Warren on the chemical nature and synthesis of chloroform, and is followed by several letters by C.T. Jackson and other Boston surgeons contrasting chloroform with ether. Their reception of chloroform was at first enthusiastic. Presentation copy from the publisher, with a (cropped)... Read More
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Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus Librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per Cognoma Authorum dispositus
by (SMITH, Joseph)
Finely engraved coat-of-arms on title. Title printed in red & black. 4 p.l., xliii, dxix (i.e. dxvii), [1], cccxlviii (i.e. ccclii), [3] pp. Thick large 4to, orig. publisher’s vellum over boards, fleuron in gilt in center of covers with gilt fleurons in each corner, double gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering piece on spine, a.e.g. Venice: Typis J.B. Pasquali, 1755. Third edition and the first complete edition of the catalogue of Smith’s magnificent collection of... Read More
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![[From upper wrapper]: A Bee Sees [Book 71]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/977/967/1397967977.0.l.jpg)
[From upper wrapper]: A Bee Sees [Book 71]
by SMITH, Keith A.
Silk-screened illus. & text. 10 unnumbered leaves, several hand-cut. Oblong 4to (224 x 296 mm.), self-bound with staples. [Rochester, NY]: 1978. An uncommon early artist’s book by Keith A. Smith (b. 1938), intended as a children’s alphabet book. In 200 Books, he writes: “Aatis and Ping Lillstrom had their first child the year I made this book and I dedicated it to Alpha Gaylord Lillstrom, since it is an alphabet book. I called her ‘Alpha Betty.’ Their second... Read More
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![[From second leaf]: Masturbation Meditation [Book 65]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/967/1397967973.0.l.jpg)
[From second leaf]: Masturbation Meditation [Book 65]
by SMITH, Keith A.
Offset illus. throughout. [8] leaves, printed on rectos only. Oblong 4to (218 x 287 mm.), self-bound with nuts & bolts. [Rochester, NY]: Visual Studies Workshop, 1976. Keith A. Smith’s first artist’s book produced in what he considered a large edition (70 copies), printed at the Visual Studies Workshop, where he taught for several years. Much of the artist’s earlier books were unique or in very small editions. Starting in the late 70s and early 80s, Smith (b. 1938)... Read More
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![When I Was Two [Book 68]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/974/967/1397967974.0.l.jpg)
When I Was Two [Book 68]
by SMITH, Keith A.
Black & white illus. throughout, offset-printed. [25] leaves. Oblong 4to (205 x 315 mm.), orig. three-color silk-screened dust-jacket (minor wear to the extremities), stiff boards, saddle-stitched & case-bound. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1977. First edition. This is an excellent demonstration of Keith A. Smith’s virtuosity with the manipulation of photographic processes to create intricate and vivid imagery. One of Smith’s frequent motifs, a “tumbling block” quilt pattern, appears several times in this work. In the 60s... Read More
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Overcast/Outcast, Book 112
by SMITH, Keith A.
Many black & white illus. 112 unnumbered pages. 8vo (211 x 145 mm.), printed wrappers. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1986. An uncommon collection of visual poems by the American book artist, Keith A. Smith (b. 1938); this is an early photo-digital book, created using Thunderscan. Printed offset in an edition of 500 copies on Mohawk Vellum 70 lb. There was also a leather-bound edition of 25 copies. The present example is signed by the artist on the title-page.... Read More
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![[From upper cover]: Snow Job, Book 115](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/425/1332425542.0.l.jpg)
[From upper cover]: Snow Job, Book 115
by SMITH, Keith A.
Offset printed black & white illus. throughout. Leporello format (162 x 112 mm. closed, fully extends to 2.5 meters), stiff paper boards, printed pictorial label on upper board. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1986. One of Keith A. Smith’s works in leporello format, featuring a poem by the artist; printed offset in an edition of 300 and signed by the artist on the title-page. This work is dedicated to the book artist Philip Zimmerman. In his auto-bibliography... Read More
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Out of Sight, Book Number 107
by SMITH, Keith A.
Eight leaves, each leaf ½” larger than the previous. 8vo (197 x 144 mm.), orig. leather-backed boards, stitching on spine, title printed on upper cover. [From colophon]: Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985. A scarce visual and interactive poem by the celebrated book artist, Keith A. Smith (b. 1938), bound by the artist and printed offset in a numbered edition of 200. This is a beguiling and intricate composition with overlapping text on each leaf, requiring repeated manipulation of... Read More
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Book 91
by SMITH, Keith A.
1982. Embossed title on first leaf. [24] leaves of thick Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio paper. Oblong folio (260 x 370 mm.), orig. cloth boards, linen cords strung through holes in paper. Barrytown: Space Heater Multiples, 1982. A book that commands it be read from beginning to end, then end to beginning. This is one of Smith’s masterpieces, also known as the “String Book”; from a numbered edition of 50 and signed by the artist, ours is “Copy D.”... Read More
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![[From upper cover]: Back and Forth, Book Number 108](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/543/425/1332425543.0.l.jpg)
[From upper cover]: Back and Forth, Book Number 108
by SMITH, Keith A.
Eight leaves, each leaf larger by 1/2” from the previous. 8vo (202 x 148 mm.), orig. leather-backed boards, stitching on spine, title printed on upper cover. [From colophon]: Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985. An uncommon visual and interactive poem by the celebrated book artist Keith A. Smith (b. 1938), bound by the artist and printed offset in a numbered edition of 200, signed by the artist on the colophon page. Like Book 107, the intricate structure of overlapping... Read More
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![When I Was Two [Book 68]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/976/967/1397967976.0.l.jpg)
When I Was Two [Book 68]
by SMITH, Keith A.
Signed & numbered photoetching tipped-in on recto of first blank leaf, black & white illus. throughout. [25] leaves. Oblong 4to (205 x 315 mm.), orig. three-color silk-screened dust-jacket, stiff boards, saddle-stitched & case-bound. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1977. First edition, one of 50 special copies with a large, tipped-in photoetching, signed and numbered by the artist, captioned in pencil: “I was born at twenty but died at twelve, 6/50 Keith, October 1977.” This striking photoetching, depicting... Read More
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![Tongguk myŏngsan-ki 東國名山記 [Records of Famous Mountains in Korea]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/238/549/1716549238.0.l.jpg)
Tongguk myŏngsan-ki 東國名山記 [Records of Famous Mountains in Korea]
by SŎNG, Hae-ŭng 成海應
51 folding leaves. Large 8vo (270 x 180 mm.), orig. yellow patterned semi-stiff wrappers. Kyŏngsŏng (Seoul): Irhan Sŏbang 日韓書房, 1909. An uncommon geographical treatise from the late Chosŏn period, compiled by Sŏng Hae-ŭng (1760-1839) during the reign of King Jeongjo (r. 1776-1800). This work surveys approximately 100 of Korea’s most celebrated scenic and historic mountains and sites, organized into nine regions: Gyeongdo, Giro, Haeseo, Gwanso, Hojung, Honam, Yeongnam, Gwandong, and Gwanbuk. Sŏng provides detailed descriptions of each... Read More
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On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations: containing a Description of the Various Stages of Etherization and a Statement of the Result of nearly Eighty Operations in which Ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals
by SNOW, John
Three woodcut illus. in the text (one full-page). viii, 88 pp. (lacking half-title). 8vo, modern morocco by Middleton (small wormholes in upper margin of first few leaves), spine gilt. London: J. Churchill, 1847. First edition of a great rarity. Published in October 1847, this was the second treatise on ether anesthesia, and Snow’s first book on the subject. It contains the first illustrated account of Snow’s regulating inhaler, the first to control the amount of ether vapour received... Read More
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![A collection of 118 printed broadsides, ranging from 308 x 450 mm. to 156 x 95 mm., produced as notices by various kyoka poetry societies, all carefully bound in one orihon silk-covered album. Upper cover title-slip: “Dai surichirashi shuran” [trans.: “Various broadsides & sheets collected & pasted in an album”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/913/954/1112954913.0.l.jpg)
A collection of 118 printed broadsides, ranging from 308 x 450 mm. to 156 x 95 mm., produced as notices by various kyoka poetry societies, all carefully bound in one orihon silk-covered album. Upper cover title-slip: “Dai surichirashi shuran” [trans.: “Various broadsides & sheets collected & pasted in an album”]
by KYOKA POETRY SOCIETIES
An important and remarkable survival. “In general, the chonin, the bourgeois citizens of Edo and Osaka particularly, enjoyed literature that was light and entertaining: stories of love and intrigue, often with fantastic or occult elements; and verse that was very much on the surface, relying greatly for its appeal on word-plays that the nature of the language, with it innumerable homophones, encourages…from the beginning of the Temmei period in 1781, kyoka verse became a major leisure activity... Read More
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![Illustrated scroll on fine thick paper, entitled at beginning “Shisso Shudan” [“Method of Handling the Spear”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/985/1367985985.0.l.jpg)
Illustrated scroll on fine thick paper, entitled at beginning “Shisso Shudan” [“Method of Handling the Spear”]
by SOJUTSU, ART OF THE SPEAR
Scroll (365 x 5560 mm.), with gold endpaper at beginning, on a wooden roller. [Japan]: at end, in trans.: “this secret information was given by Shichibei Itsuki to Shingobei Saijo in 1769.” The spear (yari) was one of the primary weapons used in the feudal period of Japan. Many variations of the head of the spear were developed, some for thrusting by foot soldiers and some for slashing, designed for men on horseback. This finely illustrated scroll... Read More
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![Zoge chokokuho [trans.: Technique of Ivory Carving & Sculpture]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/163/537/1078537163.0.l.jpg)
Zoge chokokuho [trans.: Technique of Ivory Carving & Sculpture]
by SOMA, Kuninosuke (pen-name: Senrei)
Many woodcut illus. in the text. 45; 30 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. patterned wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Tokyo: Kinbe Yoshida, 1900. Second edition, enlarged (the first edition of 1890, privately printed, is very rare), of this classic Japanese work on ivory carving. Kuninosuke Soma, whose pen-name was Senrei Soma, was one of the leading ivory carvers of his time (see Encyc. Brit.). George Frederick Kunz, in his magisterial Ivory and the... Read More
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What to Look for in a Book — Physically & Catalogue 1965-66
by SOMETHING ELSE PRESS, Inc., publisher
Black & white illus. 16 pp. (incl. wrappers). Small 4to (175 x 136 mm.), orig. white printed wrappers, staple-bound. [New York: 1966?]. The very rare first Something Else Press catalogue. Founded by Dick Higgins, the press published and distributed an array of innovative American and European artists’ books. This catalogue opens with an article on book design and its limitations, as well as examples of attractive and structurally sound bookbindings. The article concludes: “We are not interested in... Read More
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![Kojongjo chinsin yuhyŏllok 高宗朝縉紳儒賢錄 [Register of Eminent Officials and Virtuous Scholars during the Reign of King Gojong]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/375/549/1716549375.0.l.jpg)
Kojongjo chinsin yuhyŏllok 高宗朝縉紳儒賢錄 [Register of Eminent Officials and Virtuous Scholars during the Reign of King Gojong]
by SONG, Hyŏn-su 宋顯洙
66; 76 folding leaves. Two kwŏn in two volumes. Small folio (305 x 202 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. Naju: Sanggyŏngjae 尙經齋, 1936. First edition of this lithographically printed work, an essential register of distinguished Confucian scholars, military generals, and eminent officials during the reign of King Kojong (1852-1919; r. 1864–1907). As an exhaustive compilation of the achievements and contributions of key figures in late Chosŏn intellectual and official circles, this book provides important reference... Read More
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![Song Teng Zhongjiegong shi Jin ben mo 宋滕忠節公使金本末 [Chronological Account of the Loyal and Upright Lord Teng of the Song’s Embassy to the Jin] [with] Teng Zhongjiegong yi shi 滕忠節公遺詩 [Posthumous Poetry by the Loyal and Upright Lord Teng]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/683/486/1578486683.0.l.jpg)
Song Teng Zhongjiegong shi Jin ben mo 宋滕忠節公使金本末 [Chronological Account of the Loyal and Upright Lord Teng of the Song’s Embassy to the Jin] [with] Teng Zhongjiegong yi shi 滕忠節公遺詩 [Posthumous Poetry by the Loyal and Upright Lord Teng]
by SONG, Lian 宋濂
One illus. 21 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers (a little worn), orig. stitching. [China]: Baoshan Teng shi 寶山滕氏, 1935. The record of an ill-fated diplomatic mission in the 12th century, when the Song dynasty existed in a geopolitical context in which it faced states as powerful as itself on its northern border. This was a time of “China among equals.” The Chinese Song could no longer realistically claim to be a universal empire but... Read More
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Tenkō kaibutsu 天工開物 [Ch.: Tian gong kai wu; The Exploitation of the Works of Nature]
by SONG, Yingxing 宋應星
Numerous full-page woodcut illus. in the text. 18 parts in nine vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title-slips, new stitching (some loose). [From colophon]: Osaka: Kawachi Mohachi et al. & Edo: Yamazaki Kinbei, 1771. First edition to be printed in Japan, in Chinese with Japanese reading marks, of "China's greatest technological classic"-Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 4, Part II, p. 171. This book first appeared in print in China in 1637, and copies soon reached... Read More
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![A4 event flyer: Tuesday Night Readings at Other Books & So, Herengracht 259, Amsterdam (16 & 23 May [1978])](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/301/385/1500385301.0.l.jpg)
A4 event flyer: Tuesday Night Readings at Other Books & So, Herengracht 259, Amsterdam (16 & 23 May [1978])
by OTHER BOOKS AND SO
Printed on both sides and two hand-stamped manicules to the recto. Single sheet, two horizontal folds as issued. Amsterdam: [1978]. A rare flyer produced by Ulises Carrión’s bookshop for a pair of performances in May 1978. Readings by Richard Kostelanetz and Jackson Mac Low on the 16th were followed by Steve McCaffery’s a week later. The events were sponsored by Michael Gibbs’s Kontexts Publications. There are biographies for the three participants on the reverse. A... Read More
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Promotional sheet (167 x 196 mm.) for the Amsterdam bookstore, printed on one side & stamped
by OTHER BOOKS AND SO
Amsterdam: [1975-77]. Scarce piece of Other Books and So ephemera. Founded by Ulises Carrión (1941-89) and Aart van Barneveld (1951-90) as an artist-run bookshop and exhibition space in April 1975, the space was at the nexus of a network of artists involved in stamp and mail art, as well as the publication of artists' books. This small sheet, stamped with the store's first address, 227 Herengracht, lays out the kinds of books that the duo strove to... Read More
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Illustrated A4 flyer for the exhibition Newspaper Art, Art Newspapers (30 November-23 December 1976)
by OTHER BOOKS AND SO
Single sheet, printed on recto only, horizontal & vertical folds. Amsterdam: 1976. Scarce flyer, designed by Tom Gravemaker, for a show at Other Books and So that was curated by Michael Gibbs. He included pieces by Bal, Dermisache, Tot, Hendriks, Roth, Hellion, Oldenburg, de Rook, Ulrichs, Y. Klein, Uecker, Kalkmann, Picabia, de Vries, Hartwell, Carrión, etc. Newspapers from the United States, Netherlands, Canada, England, Spain, Germany, Poland, Australia, Venezuela, Switzerland, Italy, and New Zealand were incorporated. Fine.... Read More
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A4 exhibition flyer: 1968-1978 tien jaar bloknoot – onmoetingstijdschrift van proza, poëzie, konkrete poëzie, conceptual art, kunst enz., redaktie: ruud van aarsen, robert joseph, g. j. de rook (3-21 January 1978)
by OTHER BOOKS AND SO
Single sheet, mimeographed on recto only, Other Books and So stamp in lower right corner, horizontal & vertical folds. Amsterdam: 1978. Flyer for the exhibition celebrating ten years of bloknoot, an avant-garde magazine edited by van Aarsen, Joseph, and de Rook. It featured visual poems and writings by Ulises Carrión, Michael Gibbs, Paul de Vree, Jiri Valoch, Hans Clavin, Klaus Groh, etc. The flyer itself is designed like a typewritten concrete poem with pairs of letters repeating... Read More
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Exhibition postcard: Postal Art Show (August 1975)
by OTHER BOOKS AND SO
Printed on both sides, addressee written in ms. Postcard, mailed. Amsterdam: 1975. Very rare postcard announcing one of the earliest exhibitions at Other Books and So. Ulises Carrión (1941-89) and Aart van Barneveld (1951-90) opened the bookshop’s doors on 15 April 1975, and the space’s inaugural exhibition was Boeken en linguïstische objecten uit allerlei landen [Books and linguistic objects from all sorts of countries] for the month of May. The recto of this postcard announces... Read More
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