![Keiseikai toranomaki 傾城買虎之卷 [or] Tosei toranomaki [Pledged in Love to One, Bought by Another: A Guide]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/006/610/1413610006.0.l.jpg)
Keiseikai toranomaki 傾城買虎之卷 [or] Tosei toranomaki [Pledged in Love to One, Bought by Another: A Guide]
by TANISHI KINGYO 田螺金魚, author
One double-page black & white woodcut. 48 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. green wrappers (wrappers a little tired), orig. block-printed title label on upper cover (label soiled), new stitching. [Edo]: Preface dated 1778. First edition of this rare sharebon, stories revolving around humor and entertainments in the pleasure quarters, most popular in the 1770s and 1780s. This novel, a real “tearjerker,” is one of the masterpieces about the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters (see Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Yoshiwara: The Glittering... Read More
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![Manuscript on paper, entitled on manuscript labels on upper covers & first leaves of text: “Suigun kaitei” 水軍階梯 [“The Naval Ladder”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/495/372/1600372495.0.l.jpg)
Manuscript on paper, entitled on manuscript labels on upper covers & first leaves of text: “Suigun kaitei” 水軍階梯 [“The Naval Ladder”]
by TANI, Sojun 谷素純
Numerous illus. in text, some using colored ink & four manuscript maps (one is loose). 37; 47; 33; 48 folding leaves. Six parts in four vols. 8vo (270 x 191 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, old stitching. Izu province: from the final leaf: “copied in 1847.” An apparently unique survival of a manual with instructions for naval warfare. Japan in the Tokugawa period maintained strict control of its maritime border, with only Chinese and Dutch merchants... Read More
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![Ye ban zhong sheng 夜半鐘聲 [The Sound of Bells at Midnight] [or] Jie guan fan ren kou chu yang lun 戒拐販人口出洋論 [An Argument Against Human Trafficking Abroad]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/184/276/1751276184.0.l.jpg)
Ye ban zhong sheng 夜半鐘聲 [The Sound of Bells at Midnight] [or] Jie guan fan ren kou chu yang lun 戒拐販人口出洋論 [An Argument Against Human Trafficking Abroad]
by TAN JINGMIZI 譚警迷子
Woodblock-printed. 17 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with printed title-slip on upper cover, new stitching. Yokohama: Chūka kaikan, 1872. First edition of this rare work criticizing the Chinese-Cuba "coolie" trade, with numerous eyewitness accounts of the laborers' suffering. It was published in Yokohama by a person from Shunyi Shijiang 順邑獅江 (in Guangdong) under the alias Tan Jingmizi. Our first edition, published by the Chinese Association in Yokohama, is very rare: we find only two copies in... Read More
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![Finely written manuscript on paper of Shuo fu lüe 說郛畧 [Outline of Shuo fu]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/655/058/1493058655.0.l.jpg)
Finely written manuscript on paper of Shuo fu lüe 說郛畧 [Outline of Shuo fu]
by TAO, Zongyi 陶宗儀
Brush & ink drawings in several vols. Ca. 1500 folding leaves. Ten vols. Thick 8vo (280 x 195 mm.), later wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: from the final leaf of Vol. 10 (in approximate trans.): “The Buddhist practitioner Banjin copied this in Kinko [in today’s Kagoshima Prefecture] in 1721. I visited Banjin in 1737 and had conversations with him, [signed] Soko.” Manuscript excerpts dating from after 1646, taken from Shuo fu 說郛, a collectanea (congshu 叢書) by Tao... Read More
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![Deluxe manuscript fair copy on paper prepared for Emperor Francis I (title leaves on vellum) entitled “Catalogo Delle Produzioni Naturali che si conservano nella Galleria Imperiale di Firenze[.] Disteso nell’ Anno 1763. per Comando di Sua Maesta Cesarea partecipato da Sua Eccellenza il Sigr. Maresciallo Marchese Antoniotto Botta Adorno[.] Dall Dottr. Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti Decano del Collegio Medico di Firenze Professor Pubblico di Bottanica Prefetto della Bibliotreca Pub. Magliabechiana.” Written throughout, with the exception of the calligraphic titles, in one clear cursive hand in brown ink. Titles for each vol. written in black ink within elaborate calligraphic rococo framed border, elaborate imperial arms at top, one line of title in gold. 1 p.l. (title), 338 unnumbered leaves, 3 blank leaves; 1 p.l. (title), 123 unnumbered leaves, 3 blank leaves; 126 unnumbered leaves, one blank leaf. Three parts in two vols. Small folio (307 x 210 mm.), orig. red morocco, richly gilt, sides decorated with flo](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/619/791/977791619.0.l.jpg)
Deluxe manuscript fair copy on paper prepared for Emperor Francis I (title leaves on vellum) entitled “Catalogo Delle Produzioni Naturali che si conservano nella Galleria Imperiale di Firenze[.] Disteso nell’ Anno 1763. per Comando di Sua Maesta Cesarea partecipato da Sua Eccellenza il Sigr. Maresciallo Marchese Antoniotto Botta Adorno[.] Dall Dottr. Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti Decano del Collegio Medico di Firenze Professor Pubblico di Bottanica Prefetto della Bibliotreca Pub. Magliabechiana.” Written throughout, with the exception of the calligraphic titles, in one clear cursive hand in brown ink. Titles for each vol. written in black ink within elaborate calligraphic rococo framed border, elaborate imperial arms at top, one line of title in gold. 1 p.l. (title), 338 unnumbered leaves, 3 blank leaves; 1 p.l. (title), 123 unnumbered leaves, 3 blank leaves; 126 unnumbered leaves, one blank leaf. Three parts in two vols. Small folio (307 x 210 mm.), orig. red morocco, richly gilt, sides decorated with flo
by TARGIONI-TOZZETTI, Giovanni
[Florence: ca. 1763]. This handsome manuscript, prepared for presentation to Emperor Francis I (1708-65), Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, is a beautifully written contemporary fair copy of the original holograph manuscript now in the Museo Galileo (formerly the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence), compiled by Targioni-Tozzetti (1712-83), the great natural historian, librarian, director of Florence’s botanical garden, and professor of botany. He was, after Spallanzani, the most active Italian naturalist... Read More
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Book Catalogues: Their Varieties and Uses
by TAYLOR, Archer
Frontis. illus. 284 pp. 8vo, orig. cloth, dust-jacket. [New York]: F.C. Beil, 1987.Second edition, revised by Wm. P. Barlow, Jr. Mr. Barlow's corrections and additions are most useful.
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![Outlines of Designs for Shop Fronts and Door Cases, with the Mouldings at Large, and Enrichments to each Design. NB. The whole of which are Design'd in the present Tast [sic], and intended as an Assistant to Carpenters and Builders in General](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/120/343/923343120.0.l.jpg)
Outlines of Designs for Shop Fronts and Door Cases, with the Mouldings at Large, and Enrichments to each Design. NB. The whole of which are Design'd in the present Tast [sic], and intended as an Assistant to Carpenters and Builders in General
by TAYLOR, Isaac & Josiah, Publishers
Engraved title-page & 24 engraved plates (several plates slightly dampstained). Large 4to, orig. blue wrappers (frayed & scribbled upon by an early owner), stitched as issued, uncut. [London]: I. & J. Taylor, 1792. First edition and very rare; ESTC locates only two copies: at the Bodleian and Avery Architecture Library. This is very attractive work of designs for storefronts and specialized doors, issued by the leading publishers of architectural works of Britain, the Taylor’s Architectural Library. The Taylors,... Read More
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![Bibliothecae Samuelis S.R.I. Com. Teleki de Szék. Pars Prima [-Tertia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/415/343/923343415.0.l.jpg)
Bibliothecae Samuelis S.R.I. Com. Teleki de Szék. Pars Prima [-Tertia]
by (TELEKI, Sámuel, Gróf)
Finely engraved port. of the collector & engraved title in Vol. I. xxxvii, [11], 313, [25] pp.; xxxvi, [14], 436, [41] pp.; 1 p.l., iv, [4], 285, [25] pp., [3], 290-672, [30] pp. Three vols. (Vol. III in two parts). 8vo, modern paste-paper boards, uncut. Vienna: M. Pulio, 1796 [Vol. I]; M.A. Schmidt, 1800 [Vol. II]; A. Pichler, 1811 [Vol. III]. First edition of one of the rarest of all private library catalogues; this copy lacks, as usual,... Read More
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Concept – Théorie (3-21 November 1970)
by TEMPLON, Daniel, publisher
Black & white illus. Unpaginated. 4to, printed softcover, plastic binding clip. Paris: Daniel Templon, 1970. Scarce and early exhibition catalogue devoted to conceptual art; WorldCat locates only three copies in North America. Gallerist Daniel Templon presented the works of Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, Victor Burgin, Ian Burn, Alan Kirili, Christine Kozlov, Joseph Kosuth, Emilio Prini, Mel Ramsden, and Bernar Venet. The catalogue, edited by critic and curator Catherine Millet (b. 1948), consists of... Read More
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare Engravings in First States and Proofs forming the Collection at 40, Grosvenor Square of…
by (TENNANT, Sir Charles, 1st Baronet)
1 p.l., 110 pp. 4to, attractive modern green cloth, upper cover gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g. London: [Chiswick Press], 1898. Second edition, enlarged with recent acquisitions; limited to 75 copies. An earlier, smaller, edition appeared in 1884. Tennant (1823-1906), was a Scottish industrialist who greatly expanded the chemicals company started by his grandfather…He was one of the earliest provincial industrialists to become a major metropolitan figure, and held magnificent parties at his great house in Grosvenor Square.”–ODNB. This... Read More
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Catalogue of the Pictures forming the Collection of Sir Charles Tennant, Bart., of 40, Grosvenor Square, and the Glen, Innerleithen. [Compiled by C. Morland Agnew]
by (TENNANT, Sir Charles, 1st Baronet)
68 collotype plates. 130 unnumbered pages. Large & thick 4to, orig. green cloth (most leaves sprung due to the use of gutta percha), upper cover gilt, t.e.g. [London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co.], 1896. The scarce privately printed catalogue of this collection of highly important 18th- and 19th-century English pictures collected by Charles Tennant (1823-1906), the Scottish industrialist. He purchased the bulk of these works from the Agnews, the family of art dealers. “In 1853 Tennant bought The Glen... Read More
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![Saiseihō 濟生寶 [Rescuing Lives, a Treasure House]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/149/630/1731630149.0.l.jpg)
Saiseihō 濟生寶 [Rescuing Lives, a Treasure House]
by TERAJIMA, Ryōan 寺島良安
Five woodcut illus. in Vol. I & one small woodcut in Vol. 4. 23.5; 29; 43; 27.5; 39 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled & rubbed), title-slips on upper covers, new stitching. Osaka: Tsurugaya Kyūbei 敦賀屋九兵衛, 1722. First edition and very rare; WorldCat locates only one copy, in Japan. Terajima (b. 1654), an Osaka physician, is most famous for his massive illustrated encyclopedia Wakan sansai zue 和漢三才図会 [Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia of the Three Reigns... Read More
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![Daimin sanzō shōgyō mokuroku 大明三藏聖教目錄 [Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka, the Sacred Canon of the Buddhists in China & Japan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/652/1305652397.0.l.jpg)
Daimin sanzō shōgyō mokuroku 大明三藏聖教目錄 [Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka, the Sacred Canon of the Buddhists in China & Japan]
by TETSUGEN DŌKŌ 鐵眼道光
Three full-page woodcuts. 20, 33; 27; 20; 28, 2 folding leaves. Four parts in two vols. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers (wrappers wormed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. [Japan]: colophon in Vol. II dated 1669. “It was not until the seventeenth century that the first Japanese version of the Chinese Buddhist canon was printed, and it was rapidly followed by a second. Thanks to the late date, the circumstances of their production and their subsequent... Read More
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![[Up-to-Date Self-Instruction Manual for Painting]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/914/373/1615373914.0.l.jpg)
[Up-to-Date Self-Instruction Manual for Painting]
by TŌGA HITORIGEIKO 當畫獨稽古
Many full-page woodcut illus. (some color-printed). 23, .5 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers (wrappers rubbed), orig. block-printed title-label, new stitching. From the colophon leaf: Fushimi: Kameya Hanbei 亀屋半兵衛, 1848. Second edition, and a very rare book (WorldCat locates only the LC copy); the first edition of 1816 is equally rare. This is an uncommon provincial publication, issued in Fushimi, near Kyoto (today absorbed into greater Kyoto City). This drawing and painting manual... Read More
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Paul Thek: I AM, AM I.
by (THEK, Paul)
Black & white illus. 77 pp. & colophon. 8vo, red printed wrappers, title on spine. Brussels: Jan Mot, 2019. Scarce book published for Jan Mot’s exhibition Paul Thek: I AM, AM I? (6 September-29 October 2019), edition of 750 copies. Texts by the dealer Ted Bonin and reproductions of the artist’s etchings. “In 1989, a year after his death, a multitude of works were discovered in Paul Thek’s New York storage unit. Among hundreds of... Read More
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De Historia Plantarum Libri Decem, Graece & Latine. In quibus Textum Graecum variis Lectionibus, emendationibus, hiulcorum supplementis: Latinam Gazae versionem nova interpretatione ad margines: totum Opus absolutissimis cum Notis tum Commentariis: item rariorum Plantarum iconibus illustravit
by THEOPHRASTUS
Finely engraved title-page (a trifle shaved at outer edge) & 675 woodcuts in the text. 11 p.l. (incl. engr. title), 1187 (i.e., 1185), [87] pp. Folio, cont. Dutch vellum over boards (upper joint with small split of 7 cm. at foot, minor pale dampstaining to first 20 leaves & last third of book), panelled in blind, central arabesque in blind to each cover, ties gone. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius, 1644. First edition to be edited by Joannes Bodaeus à... Read More
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Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, Collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661. [Vol. I: “1640-1652,” Vol. II: “1653-1661, Newspapers. Index.”]
by (THOMASON, George)
Two vols. Large & thick 8vo, orig. brown cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. London: “Printed by Order of the Trustees” [of the] British Museum, 1908. “Historians of the Civil War and Commonwealth can hardly sing too highly the praises of the London bookseller George Thomason (1600?-1666) who, from 1640 to 1661, collected nearly 23,000 ephemeral tracts, pamphlets, news sheets and other broadsides mainly of a political or satirical nature and bound them, in chronological order, in 2000 volumes. After... Read More
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Andrej Tisma: yugoslavian mail artist, hand carved stamps (March 1996)
by (TISMA, Andrej)
Illus. throughout. Perforated title-page, unpaginated. 4to, transparent plastic sheets, plastic spiral bound. San Francisco: Stamp Art Gallery, 1996. Scarce exhibition catalogue on Andrej Tisma (b. 1952), the Serbian mail artist and curator. In excellent condition. WorldCat records just four examples in North America.
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Histoire de mes Ascensions. Récit de Vingt-Quatre Voyages aëriens (1868-1877) précédé de simples Notions sur les Ballons et la Navigation aérienne
by TISSANDIER, Gaston
Numerous illus. & plates (several double-page) by Albert Tissandier; one folding table printed on both sides & one folding map. viii, 344 pp. Large 8vo, fine orig. red sheep (a few tiny defects), panelled in gilt, with the initials of Albert Tissandier on upper cover (“A.T.”), spine nicely gilt, a.e.g. Paris: M. Dreyfous, 1878. First edition, the copy of Albert Tissandier, the illustrator of this book and brother of the author. Gaston Tissandier (1843-99), chemist, meteorologist, author, and... Read More
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Livres Minuscules. La plus Grande Bibliothèque des plus Petits Livres du Monde. Collection de M. Georges Salomon...Extrait de La Nature
by TISSANDIER, Gaston
Illus. in the text. 2 p.l., 20 pp. Small 4to, orig. printed wrappers bound in cont. red straight-grained morocco (upper cover with the slightest abrasions), single gilt fillet round sides, flat spine gilt, t.e.g. Paris: G. Masson, 1894. First edition of this very uncommon bibliography of miniature books, based on the celebrated collection of Georges Salomon. He formed the largest 19th-century collection of such books, numbering about 700 volumes. They were later dispersed; many of them found their... Read More
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![Da cheng zao xiang gong de jing 大乘造像功徳經; in Japanese: Daijo zozo kudoku kyo [Creation of the Statue, a Pious Act]; title in manuscript on upper cover: “Zozo kudoku kyo.”](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/251/703/1256703251.0.l.jpg)
Da cheng zao xiang gong de jing 大乘造像功徳經; in Japanese: Daijo zozo kudoku kyo [Creation of the Statue, a Pious Act]; title in manuscript on upper cover: “Zozo kudoku kyo.”
by TIYUNBANRUO 提雲般若 (or, in Sanskrit, DEVENDRAPRAJNA), trans
1615. 14; 13 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo, cont. or later dark wrappers dyed with persimmon juice (shibubiki), new stitching. [Japan, probably Kyoto: printed with moveable types, ca. 1615-40]. A very rare edition printed with moveable types, apparently unrecorded in the standard bibliographies, of the story — or legend — of the creation of the first statue of Siddhartha Gautama or Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The statue, executed while Buddha was still... Read More
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![Nichiyō ryōba iben 日用療馬醫便 [Convenient Readings in Equine Medicine for Daily Use]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/518/920/1611920518.0.l.jpg)
Nichiyō ryōba iben 日用療馬醫便 [Convenient Readings in Equine Medicine for Daily Use]
by TOKI, Kōrin 土岐光林
(title at beginning of text) [or] Shinsen ryōyaku zukai Nichiyō ryōba iben 新選良薬図解日用療馬医便 [Convenient Readings in Equine Medicine for Daily Use, with Illustrations & Explanations and Newly Selected Helpful Medicines] (title on title-slips). 16 full-page woodcut illus. 32.5; 32.5; 31 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, orig. title-slips (partially worn off), new stitching. Edo & Kyoto: Nishimura Genroku 西村源六 & Nishimura Ichirōemon 西村市郎右衛門, 1758. First edition of this rare work on horse medicine.... Read More
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![Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf “Goyuijo [gohozoiri] hyakkajo [“The One Hundred Articles of Testimony”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/576/487/1453487576.0.l.jpg)
Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf “Goyuijo [gohozoiri] hyakkajo [“The One Hundred Articles of Testimony”]
by TOKUGAWA, Ieyasu
17 folding leaves. 8vo (265 x 191 mm), orig. patterned wrappers with paintings on each cover, old stitching. On the antepenultimate page, in a later hand using red ink in trans.: “Yakushiji Temple Horinin…copied August 1795.” An important text, which has been shrouded in secrecy for several centuries. Manuscript copies, such as the present example, were quietly made, but the Legacy of Ieyasu was not published until the early 19th century. Ieyasu Tokugawa (1543-1616) “left behind him... Read More
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![Kaigan hōjutsu biyō 海岸砲術備要 [Compendium on Coastal Artillery] (title from beginning of text) [or] Kaigan biyō [Coastal Compendium] (from title-page)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/810/255/1609255810.0.l.jpg)
Kaigan hōjutsu biyō 海岸砲術備要 [Compendium on Coastal Artillery] (title from beginning of text) [or] Kaigan biyō [Coastal Compendium] (from title-page)
by TOLLEN (not TORREN), Gerrit van der, author & MOTOKI Masahide (or Shōei or Shōzaemon) 本木正栄, trans
Many fine woodcuts throughout. Four parts & appendices in five vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (a little frayed), old stitching, orig. title slips on covers. Tokyo: Yamasakiya Seishichi 山崎屋清七 et al., 1852. First printed edition of this artillery manual from the bakumatsu period. In the early 19th century, Japan came under increased pressure from Western nations that wanted access to Japanese ports. “The Shogunate government issued the Order to Drive Away Foreign Ships in 1825... Read More
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![Ryūkyū kaigo 琉球解語 [The Ryukyu Procession & Culture Revealed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/094/548/1737548094.0.l.jpg)
Ryūkyū kaigo 琉球解語 [The Ryukyu Procession & Culture Revealed]
by TOMIOKA, Shukō 冨岡手暠
Eight-page woodcut of a procession and one double-page & four full-page woodcut illus. .5, 18, .5 folding leaves. Oblong 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, most of title-slip perished, new stitching. Edo: Wakasaya Yoichi 若狭屋與市, 1850. First edition, illustrated by Utagawa Hiroshige towards the end of his celebrated career. This is an illustrated account of the 1850 final embassy of the Ryukyu kingdom to Edo, an obligatory procession made in the name of the eight-year old new King of... Read More
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