TONGGUK MUNHŎN [or] DONGGUK MUNHEON 東國文獻 [Lettered Worthies of the Eastern Kingdom]

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... Read More

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BOΓDA LOOYE-YIN SURΓAN [Teaching of the Holy Gentleman]; Ch. Guan sheng di jun jue shi zhen jing 關聖帝君覺世真經 [True Scripture Holy Lord Guan Enlightening the World] [or] Boγda looye tölge [Divination of the Holy Gentleman]; Ch. Guan di ling qian 關帝靈籤 [Divination of Lord Guan] (titles on page centerfolds)

1867. 114 folding pages (many split along fore-edge). Large 4to (295 x 225 mm.), orig. wrappers (somewhat frail & frayed), orig. stitching. [China]: 1867 (date of Preface). A Mongolian translation of a Chinese religious text dedicated to Guandi, or Lord Guan. "Guandi, Chinese god of war whose immense popularity with the common people rests on the firm belief that his control over evil spirits is so great that even actors who play his part in dramas share... Read More

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RYŌRI MONOGATARI 料理物語 [Tales of Cookery]

One full-page woodcut. 30 folding leaves. 8vo (192 x 138 mm.), orig. wrappers, manuscript title-slip on upper cover, new stitching. [Edo]: on final leaf [Matsue Ichirōbei 松会市郎兵衛], “on a good day in July 1664.” First illustrated edition of “the first culinary book [in Japan] written for an audience other than hōchōnin [professional chefs who created meals for the ruling elite].”–Rath, p. 57. The first edition, which was unillustrated, appeared in 1643 and is a well-known rarity; our... Read More

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CHŎNUN OKP’YŎN or Jeon-un okpyeon 全韻玉篇 [Jade Chapters for the Complete Rhymes]

Printed in Chinese characters & Korean Hangul. Ten columns per page; variable number of characters per column. 152 folding leaves. Two vols. bound in one. Large 8vo (295 x 202mm., text block: 217 x 153 mm.), orig. yellow wrappers, new stitching. [Korea]: n.d., but ca. 1796. First edition and rare. The great rhyme books [issued in Korea] of the eighteenth century were Hwa-Dong jeongeum tongseok un-go [Examination of Rhymes in the Correct Pronunciation of China and the East... Read More

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SŎJŎN ŎNHAE or Seojeon eonhae 書傳諺解 [Vernacular Explanations of the Traditions of the Document Classic]

12 columns per page, 23 characters per column. Printed in Hangul & Chinese characters throughout. 56; 48; 55; 50; 62 numbered folding leaves. Five vols. Large 8vo (330 x 215 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers somewhat rubbed), old stitching. Kyŏngsang: Provincial Government Offices, 1862. A scarce translation into Korean, printed in Hangul and Chinese characters throughout, of the main text of the Document Classic, one of the oldest texts in the Confucian canon. It has been traditionally ascribed... Read More

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SHINPEN haiin zoko jirui shizoku taizen [Ch.: Xin bian pai yun zeng guang shi lei shi zu da quan] 新編排韻增廣事類氏族大全 [Great Collection of Lineages, Newly Arranged by Rhyme & Expanded with Historical Events]

1619. 73; 67; 57; 70; 69; 56; 52; 74; 73 folding leaves. Ten juan in nine vols. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: from final leaf of final volume (in trans.): “ninth month September 1619.” First movable type edition printed in Japan, and a very rare book; there is apparently no copy in WorldCat. There is an example in the National Diet Library. The book is of unknown authorship, but both its contents and the extant... Read More

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ISE MONOGATARI 伊勢物語 [Tale of Ise]

Finely illustrated manuscript of Tale of Ise on smooth & thick torinoko paper with 30 full-page & one double-page paintings, employing sumi ink, various washes, sprinkled gold, & gold paint. Leaves of text underpainted in gold with delicate floral devices. Written throughout in a fine calligraphic cursive hand. 34; 35; 33 leaves. Three vols. Small 4to (234 x 171 mm.), retchoso binding, orig. gold & blue-green silk brocade over semi-stiff wrappers, gold endpapers, gold-patterned manuscript labels on upper cover.... Read More

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T’AEHAK KAENGJAE CH’UK or Taehak gaengjae chuk 太學賡載軸 [Scroll with the King’s Interview with His Officials at Sŏnggyun’gwan]

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... Read More

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[DROP-TITLE]: IATSUKAI YORAN [How to Handle Unusual Situations]

One sheet of paper (318 x 465 mm.), woodblock printed on both sides. [Japan]: ca. 1764-85. In Edo-period Japan, bansho (small buildings or huts for security and surveillance guards) were placed in central locations. There were several types of bansho, and the present document was printed as an instructional legal guide for security men in tsuji-bansho (neighborhood guard stations), located in the streets of samurai residences, especially in Edo. The guards needed to know what... Read More

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BERGBAUKUNDE

[Edited by Ignaz von Born & Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra]. Two fine & large mezzotint vignettes on titles, 13 folding engraved plates & maps, three folding printed tables, & one engraving in the text. 4 p.l., 408, [12] pp.; 2 p.l., 468, [4] pp. Two vols. Large 4to, cont. half-calf & dark red boards (corners a bit worn, minor rubbing), flat spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces on spines. Leipzig: G.J. Goeschen, 1789-90. First edition and very... Read More

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GU XUE CONG KAN 古學叢刊 [Serialized Publications of the Academy of Ancient Studies]

Issues 1-8 (of 9?). Several black & white photographs. Eight vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. Beijing: Beijing guxue yuan 北京古學院, 1939-40. A good run, apparently lacking only the final volume, of the serial publication of Beijing guxue yuan, the Beijing Academy for Ancient Studies, was founded in 1937 following the Japanese occupation of northern China, including Beijing. The Academy was a conservative institution dedicated to teaching and... Read More

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ETYMOLOGICON MAGNUM [:in Greek]

1499. Greek type, double column, 50 lines. Typographic devices printed in red, decorated initials by Ioannes Rosos, all woodcuts, headings, brackets, capital for each entry printed in red. 224 leaves. Folio (393 x 273 mm.), finely panelled cont. calf (well-rebacked, joints & edges carefully repaired), later red morocco lettering-piece on spine. Venice: Kallierges & Vlastos, 8 July 1499. First edition; a fine and large copy of the first all-Greek lexicon ever printed and the first book published... Read More

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IWAYA MONOGATARI 岩屋物語 [“The Tale of the Hut in the Rocks”]

Three finely illustrated handscrolls (emakimono) on fine smooth torinoko gold-sprinkled paper, with 16 finely executed brush & polychrome paintings, accompanying text in a fine calligraphic cursive hand, rich “golden mud” borders at top & bottom of each painting, speckled with cut gold leaf on reverse side. Three scrolls (323 x 11,640, 12,760, & 17,925 mm.), outer front endpaper covered with blue silk brocade with gold motifs, inner front endpapers of scored gold paper, manuscript label on outside of each... Read More

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Catalogue 14

by 20TH CENTURY ART ARCHIVES, bookseller

Unpaginated. Small 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Fen Ditton, UK: [1997]. Scarce bookseller’s catalogue with 562 items offered. Fine copy. ❧ Not in A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013).

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A collection of Artists Books from the 1960's and 1970's and related material…Catalogue 12

by 20TH CENTURY ART ARCHIVES, bookseller

Unpaginated. Small 4to, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Fen Ditton, UK: [1995]. A scarce bookseller’s catalogue, with a choice selection of artists’ books and publications, 268 nos. Among the highlights, we note a complete set of Art-Rite; Gilbert & George’s Dark Shadow (1974); most of the issues of Interfunktionen, Richard Long’s River Avon Book (1979); a nice run of Ruschas; a sizable group of Siegelaub catalogues, etc. A fine copy. ❧ A. Desjardin, The Book... Read More

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Catalogue 9

by 20TH CENTURY ART ARCHIVES, bookseller

52 pp. Small 8vo, pictorial dust-jacket, staple-bound. Cambridge: U.K.: n.d. Scarce catalogue published by bookseller Louisa Riley-Smith. She founded her firm in 1985 and was the exclusive distributor of Art & Project Bulletins. 783 listings. Fine.

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Catalogue 15

by 20TH CENTURY ART ARCHIVES, bookseller

Unpaginated. Small 4to, illustrated wrappers, staple-bound. Fen Ditton, UK: n.d. Scarce bookseller’s catalogue with 358 items offered. Fine copy.

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Post War Art: 1945-1990, Catalogue Eight

by 20TH CENTURY ART ARCHIVES, bookseller

Many black & white illus. 1 p.l., 40, [1] p. Small 8vo, pictorial dust-jacket, staple-bound. Cambridge, U.K.: n.d. Scarce bookseller catalogue issued by Louisa Riley-Smith. She founded her firm in 1985 and was the exclusive distributor of Art & Project’s legendary Bulletins. This catalogue has 406 listings, including rare artists’ books and art monographs. Fine.

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English Bindings 1490 - 1940 in the Library of J.R. Abbey

by (ABBEY, J.R.)

Edited by G.D. Hobson. 130 fine reproductions (12 in gold & color) & 46 facsimiles in the text. Title printed in red, black, & gold. Large thick 4to, orig. cloth (endpapers foxed as always), red morocco lettering piece on spine, t.e.g. London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1940. Limited to 180 numbered copies, signed by Major Abbey and G.D. Hobson. This sumptuously produced catalogue, the only authoritative survey of the history of bookbinding in the British Isles,... Read More

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Manuscript on paper, written in one fine legible hand, entitled on label of the first volume: “Gakkaroku” 樂家錄 [“{Kyoto} Imperial Court Music & Dances Musicological Encyclopedia”]

by ABE, Suenao [but correctly Suehisa]

Many illus., mostly in black but some in red, pink, gray, green, yellow, blue, etc. Ca. 1821 folding leaves of text. 1083 chapters in 50 parts in 54 vols. (parts 14 & 15 in one vol., parts 24, 34, 42, & 47 in two vols. each, plus one vol. of table of contents). 8vo (266 x 188 mm.), orig. blue wrappers, orig. manuscript labels on each upper wrapper, new stitching. [Probably Kyoto: written in 1690 & this is a... Read More

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Exhibition postcard: Marina Abramovic / Ulay, Ulay / Marina Abramovic (27 November-31 December 1982)

by (ABRAMOVIC, Marina & ULAY)

Recto with green text on red, details on verso. Postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1982. Postcard invitation to an exhibition by the duo at Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst. Fine. ❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992).

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Exhibition postcard: Ulay & Marina Abramovic: ‘Modus Vivendi’, 1980-1985 (14 September-13 October 1985)

by (ABRAMOVIC, Marina & ULAY)

Color illus. on recto, details to verso. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1985. Illustrated postcard invitation for the duo’s 1985 exhibition in Eindhoven. In fine condition.

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Exhibition card: Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?): Vito Acconci (opens 27 November [1976])

by (ACCONCI, Vito)

Printed on both sides. Oblong card. New York: Sonnabend Gallery, [1976]. Invitation card for Acconci’s 1976 solo show at Sonnabend in New York. Fine.

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Bas Jan Ader, kunstenaar/artist

by (ADER, Bas Jan)

Illus. throughout. 96 pp. 4to, orig. hardcover, orig. pictorial dust-jacket. Amsterdam: Stichting Openbaar kunstbezit, 1988. The scarce hardcover version of the first authoritative monograph on Ader (1942-75), edited by Paul Andriesse, the influential gallerist and collector. Text in Dutch and English. In fine condition, but for a minuscule tear to the dust-jacket.

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Exhibition announcement: a work by bas jan ader will be on exhibition at art & project… (15-21 April 1972), twice daily (except sunday and monday)

by (ADER, Bas Jan)

A4 letterhead, printed on one side, folded for mailing. Amsterdam: 1972. Rare announcement for Bas Jan Ader’s second exhibition at Art & Project. He performed The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls twice a day. In fine condition. Mailed to journalist Lily van Ginneken. ❧ Art & Project. A History (2023) E063. Bas Jan Ader: Please don’t leave me (2013 ed.), p. 167.

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