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1716996F28London: N. Crouch 1716 . Leather. Fair. 6" by 4". Not Stated. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates this is a very scarce early 18th century Anglican devotional work with prayers and reflections. The vanishingly scarce illustrated early 18th century sacramental work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven engraved plates. Collated complete.An Anglican devotional book of daily prayers hymns and contemplations structured for every day of the week to help Christians prepare more solemnly and spiritually for the worthy receiving of the Holy Communion.With nine final advertisement pages.A-B6 C-I12. Collated complete."The devout Christians daily sacrifice" has a special title page. In a contemporary calf binding. Significant rubbing to boards and back strip with fading to back strip and with loss to back strip head. Hinges strained with front hinge tenderly held to the head only with rear hinge firmly held. Internally binding strained throughout with three gatherings working loose. Pages age toned due to paper type with the odd handling mark. Tide marks throughout. Fair N. Crouch hardcover
188135615Manhattan: The Nationalist 1881. 1881. First edition. 7 3/4" x 6" blue printed wrappers with decorative type border 142 pp. including covers illustrated plates appendix table of contents advertisements. Much information on farm products and livestock. Discusses the character of the people of Kansas. Includes the Bismarck Fair Report on Riley County. Information on the soil crops rainfall horses mules the barge system manufacturing and its advantages religion and morality education etc. A 2-page business directory followed by 92 pages dealing primarily with Manhattan of biographical information on important men and businesses in Manhattan to include Hon John A. Anderson E.B. Purcell and the Manhattan Mill and Elevator Building the Rocky Ford Mills Hon. Geo. W. Higinbotham the general merchants Stingley & Huntress hardware dealer P.W. Zeigler dealer in farm implements W.H. Love H.A. Young & Co. as well as many other proprietors of various businesses. Also has information on people and businesses in Ashland Township Jackson Township Swede Creek Township Mayday Township Grant Township Zeandale Township etc. Advertising for the sale of Red Belle property of C.M. Gifford on rear wrapper. Inside rear wrapper is an illustration and advertisement for the Kimble Pump. Spine cover missing but all text still intact. Light stamp of the Anderson Memorial Library at bottom corner as well as the small letters "AZE" lightly printed at top along with a small area of sticker residue of front wrappers. Light chipping to edges of front and rear wrappers. A very interesting item. The Nationalist, 1881. unknown
178448219Perth Robert Morison 1784. 8vo. contemporary full calf with red leather title-label and gilt lines to spine forming 6 compartments. Signed by Robert Morison. Extremities with wear; back board with nicks and discolouring. Internally fine and clean. 16 349 2 302-317 pp. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of this popular work containing extensive conversion tables including those for interest for commissions and exchange primarily for converting to British money.The work was intended to be a support for merchants traders and bankers for whom it was necessary to quickly be able to look up interest- and exchange-rates. Similar works had been published previously but this was the most extensive work published at the time. It was reprinted several times. </em> hardcover
178448219Perth, Robert Morison, 1784. 8vo. contemporary full calf with red leather title-label and gilt lines to spine, forming 6 compartments. Signed by Robert Morison. Extremities with wear back board with nicks and discolouring. Internally fine and clean. (16), 349, (2), 302-317 pp.
179060936Hermannstadt Hochmeister 1790. 8vo. In contemporary original blue paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped and boards with scratches. Internally fine and clean. 276 10 pp. <br/><br/><em>Exceedingly rare work on the state of the Turkish/Ottoman empire. The author is anonymous but with a focus on state income state administration juristically aspects and visits by foreign ministers and embassies the author was most likely a diplomat in the Ottoman Empire. The late 18th century was a dire period for the Ottoman Empire which was facing several challenges and undergoing significant changes. Here are some key aspects of its state during that time. It was in a state of decline and facing numerous challenges both internally and externally. While efforts were made to reform and modernize certain aspects of the empire they were often met with resistance and were insufficient to reverse the overall decline. </em> hardcover
179060936Hermannstadt, Hochmeister, 1790. 8vo. In contemporary (original?) blue paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped and boards with scratches. Internally fine and clean. 276, (10) pp.
1907000013bHong Kong China Southeast Asia Phillippines. Good. 1907. This is an early diary thin leather covers measuring approx. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". It is written in very easy to read period brown ink. There are a total of 66 pages filled out. The diary was kept by a U.S. sailor who made entries from his departure date in San Fransisco on July 1 1907 to Nov. 10 1907 when he arrived in Hong Kong. The first page reads "DIARY OF MY TOUR AROUND THE WORLD". The sailor first writes "JULY 1 1907 - SIGNED ON U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT SHERMAN AS AN OILER". The following pages are headed "AT SEA - HONOLULU - MIDWAY ISLAND - GUAM - MANILA - CAVITTE - HONG KONG". His voyage continues ending in Hong Kong. His descriptions of the voyage other sailors experiences native people sights points of interest etc. are very interersting and quite descriptive. Much of the diary is concerned with his time in Manila. Once there he takes a job as a stock clerk with Castle Bros. He then goes to work for the government and describes bossing approx. 200 men. After working in Manila for a month or two he then sails to Hong Kong. During his trip he describes: EVERYBODY BEING EXTREMELY HOT HOMESICK AND SEASICK - DESCRIBES RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL IN MANILA - HAVING A JAPANESE MASSAGE THAT HE WILL NEVER FORGET - GETTING A TATTOO - STAYING ON A STEAMER AND BOSSING 200 MEN REPAIRING BARGES - SNEAKING INTO AN INVITATION ONLY HIGH LEVEL MEETING WITH WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT SETTING UP THE PARLIAMENT OF MANILA AFTER THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR HE DESCRIBES THE SPEECH AND DECORATIONS - TELLS OF ENTERING AN ATHLETIC RACE DURING A LARGE CELEBRATION FOR TAFT - FAKING A FEVER TO BE ABLE TO STAY IN SICK BAY ONLY TO BE FOUND OUT BY THE DOCTOR AND BEING KICKED OUT OF THE INFIRMARY PERMENANTLY - DESCRIBES GUAM - DESCRIBES MANILA HARBOR PEOPLE SIGHTS - MUCH MORE ABOUT MANILA: PARTYING DANCING ENGLISH CHINESE AMERICAN RESIDENTS SIGHTSEEING - DETAILED AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A COCK FIGHT - MEETS MANY 1898 AND 1899 SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERANS LIVING IN MANILA AFTER THE WAR - DESCRIBES HONG KONG AND IT'S PEOPLE - etc. There are too many stories descriptions and anecdotes to list! He peppers some of his descriptions with racial slurs n----r c---k. Some of his exact entries include "TROOPS HAVE ARRIVED 30TH INFANTRY MUCH EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION description of leaving on his voyage - BIG CROWD FAREWELL BAND PLAYING LARGE CROWD - PARTNER OILER SMASHED TWO FINGERS - PHILIPPINO STUDENTS AMERICAN EDUCATED ON BOARD FOR MANILA - HONOLULU KANKA BOYS SWAM TO MEET US DIVING FOR COINS - ROYAL HAWAIIAN BAND PLAYING FAREWELL MANY SOLDIERS WEEPING - MIDWAY ISLAND LONG NARROW SANDY REEF WITH NO POINT HIGHER THAN 10 FEET ABOVE THE OCEAN ONLY GOVT. OFFICIALS ARE THE INHABITANTS - COMPLETED 1ST. MONTH IN GOVT. EMPLOY HARDEST WORK IS HOLLERING "SIGI" AT ANY N-----R WHOM I SEE SOLDERING - FOUND MYSELF IN A "C---K Chinese" THEATER TONIGHT - THOUSANDS OF CHINESE SAMPANS HAVE SURROUNDED THE BOAT - etc. Overall very nice condition. Very clean with no damage. The writing is colorful and very easy to read. The covers are well attached and the interior pages are tight. The edge of the spine is covered with a piece of cloth tape. ; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF Pre World War I Travel Navy Naval Seafaring Orient Phillippines China Japan Handwritten hand written autograph autographs signed letters document documents manuscript manuscripts writers writer author holograph personal Americana antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . hardcover
3735003<p>New York: The Alcoholic Foundation Inc. 1943. Octavo 8½ x 5½ inches. 1 preliminary leaf 29 1 pages. Self-titled wrappers as issued. Lightly and uniformly age-toned last two pages with faint edge stains; near fine.</p> <p>Although similar in appearance this rare 1943 Alcoholics Anonymous item should not be confused with the more common 48-page booklet titled A.A. Tradition issued in 1947. In fact the text is entirely separate. </p> <p>The present booklet consists of an introduction and the following sections: “Am I an Alcoholic†and then three anonymous and anecdotal stories from four individuals: “The Doctor’s Nightmare†“The European Drinker†and “Women Suffer Too†and “Bill’s Story†Bill Wilson. This is followed by “Medicine Religion and Alcoholics Anonymous†and a page listing the “The Twelve Steps.†The text concludes with testimonials from professionals and religious leaders noting group’s effective approach “Our Friends Say†and a 2-page “Book Review†by Harry Emerson Fosdick of The Big Book 400 pages list price $3.50. </p> <p>This ephemeral rarity is held in America by 9 institutions the most notable being Yale Emory University Boston College the National Library of Medicine and Duke University.</p> unknown
1940140948117British Columbia: no publisher 1940. Near Fine. A lovely vintage photograph album containing plants that are either native or endemic to the Pacific Northwest likely British Columbia neatly assembled by an amateur botanist. Most images are taken in the wild while several are of pressed plant specimens shot against a white background. The last three images differ from the theme: One depicts a black bear attempting to get into a barrel of Swift'ning Shortening lard a Chicago-based company whose product was later sold in a Canadian shop in Manitoba under the name Swift Canadian Co. a cluster of Lymantria dispar caterpillars on a leaf and a freshly caught trout. <p>Oblong. 8 x 5.5". Commercial string-bound black leatherette photo album with upper cover lettered in gilt. Canadian Kodak Co. "No. A Eaton Special" label to rear pastedown. 78 neatly arranged silver gelatin prints 21 of which are hand-colored ranging in size from 6cm x 8.5 cm to 17.5cm to 12.5cm. Images are corner mounted 5 mounted with glue typically with mounted typed captions at bottom margin. Lacking two photos. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers of album some images silvered. A beautiful collection of images. The first comprehensive field guide to plants of the Pacific Northwest was not published until 1973. [no publisher] unknown
14306London Publish’d Boston Republish’d by W. Norman 1801. . 18 leaves 18mo 5½ x 3½ inches comprising engraved frontispiece engraved title a leaf of letterpress text 12 leaves of engraved hierogylphs on the 12 subjects a leaf of letterpress text and two blank leaves the blank recto of the frontispiece and the final blank leaf pasted to the original embossed colored wrappers as issued some early and neat hand-coloring; a well-used and soiled copy with two clean tears repaired and two hieroglyphic leaves "Modesty" and "Knowledge" with corners torn away but with loss only of the line borders the plates for "Religion" and "Curiosity" less fully inked than the others but all readable. Expertly restored and resewn in the original embossed and colored wrappers. Three early ownership inscriptions: "E. Weston" this lined through on the title-page and replaced with "George Appleton’s 1804" or possibly "1809" and on the blank verso of the title a large and calligraphic signature "Nathaniel Thomas". First and apparently the only American edition. The Boston publisher William Norman also published an edition of the New Hieroglyphic Bible in 1794 which was successful enough for him to reprint or reissue it in 1796. Doubtless that success inspired him to produce the present Hieroglyphic Amusement which had been published in London by John Wallis as a set of twelve engraved cards accompanied by a small printed booklet in 1791. Jill Shefrin mentions the Wallis publication in her Make it a Pleasure and not a Task: Educational Games for Children in Georgian England: Princeton University Library Chronicle 60 1999. Wallis published several sets of rebus cards: in 1791 a set of twelve cards entitled Hieroglyphic Amusements. . . . The passage on Education recalls Locke: "As the young plant groweth as it is bent. . . so is a young child in the hands of the mother. - Trust not a man-servant with the education of thy son nor a maidservant with the education of thy daughter." This American publication is even rarer than sets of the London cards. There are two copies in OCLC AAS and Peabody Essex. The Peabody Essex library catalogue entry gives "4 pages 12 leaves" i.e. 14 leaves: is their copy complete; the American Antiquarian Society copy is backlogged for cataloguing. London Publish’d Boston Republish’d by W. Norman, 1801. unknown
175819100The Hague: Vaillant 1758. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary gilt calf-backed pastepaper boards red edges green silk marker. Gift inscription on the front flyleaf. A superior copy. First edition of this anti-Jesuit diatribe. The author trumps up a global conspiracy theory in which Jesuits murdered kings and emperors including an organized plot to kill King Henry IV and the execution of Emperor Kangxi of China by missionaries. The text systematically moves from one country to the next reporting on the supposed crimes that Jesuit residents or visitors committed there: sedition fraud homicide theft and libel.<br /> <br /> Bibliotheca Brasiliense 1316; see Goldsmiths’-Kress 9442. Vaillant unknown
140946234UK: Unknown 1980. Near Fine. Two vintage anarcho-punk/ peace punk armbands from the United Kingdom manufactured circa 1980. Machine sewn white cotton linen with black elastic bands at verso. Screen printed red anarchist designs. Each are 6.5 x 3.5". Near Fine with light fading and minor abrasions at edges. <p>Scarce in-your-face political ephemera from Britain's angry young and poor. Manufactured roughly one year after Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election -- a vote that solidified the anarchist and punk legions in opposition. <p>The "Anarchy in '80" armband shows up around the leg of a guitarist in a photo of an obscure UK punk group The Condemned on the blog Leaders of Men taken in 1979 or 1980. The blogger refers to it as "proto crust" which seems accurate; it likely emanated from the cluster of punks around Crass and Subhumans that would become canonical "crust punk" bands. [Unknown] unknown
170028857London: Printed for Joseph Wilde at the Elephant at Charing Cross 1700 1700. First edition one of two variants. In this one the dedication is signed "E. L. ESTC R223814 records nine copies Durham Oxford Bodleian National Trust Folger UCLA Illinois Kansas Tennessee Beinecke; Wing A226C. Edges neatly repaired; a little browning and slight smudges in the text; very good copy. 8vo contemporary panelled sheep neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on brown leather spine label gilt decorations and lettering. Informed and lively observations on Spain at the end of the 17th century the political intrigues of the monarchy Spanish culture - including bull fighting and theater - and one allegorical tale entitled "The Story" about the "Monarchy of Philippia" all written in a series of letters to a Mr. Brunet from "His Devoted Friend R.--" who apparently visited Spain and northern Africa between 1694 and 1696. The "Epistle Dedicatory" signed "E. L." in this variant is signed "E. Lewis" in the other equally scarce variant. See ESTC R13796. London: Printed for Joseph Wilde, at the Elephant at Charing Cross, 1700 unknown
186048_0522<p>Three views of Savannah Georgia recto and two views of Colorado verso 1860s. Albumen prints mounted on both sides of mat. 2 Savannah Georgia prints 3" x 3"; 1 Savannah Georgia print 7" x 8 3/4" Colorado views 5 1/2" x 8". Mounted to 14 1/2" x 18 3/4". Captions in ink beneath prints. Numbered in pencil in the negative. Good condition. Thin/fragile mount pages. Some foxing to mount visible in photos.<br /></p>
1847243635Venice: Antonelli 1847. hardcover. very good. Lithographs and huge folding map of Venice. 3 volumes: volume I volume II parts I & II. Very thick tall 4to original tan boards spines soiled and significantly rubbed but internally fine. Venezia: Antonelli 1847. Very good.<br/> <br/> One signature loose.<br/> <br/> Antonelli unknown
1847243635Venice: Antonelli 1847. hardcover. very good. Lithographs and huge folding map of Venice. 3 volumes: volume I volume II parts I & II. Very thick tall 4to original tan boards spines soiled and significantly rubbed but internally fine. Venezia: Antonelli 1847. Very good.<br/><br/> One signature loose.<br/><br/> Antonelli unknown books
178426075Londres i.e. Paris: Et se trouve à Paris chez Pissot 1784. First Edition. Octavo; pp. 6264pp.; 4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco double ruled in gilt flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good attractive copy. Pechmeja's best-selling prose poem published anonymously under the patronage of one Madame de Beauvau presumably the Marquise de Boufflers. The work enjoyed both enthusiastic and scathing reviews from the most celebrated literary figures of the time. Readers admired the work's literary beauty and its touching description of friendship while others found fault with the moral and economic message which would be described as socialist in the modern sense. Among the most notable Télephe detractors was the author Jean-François de la Harpe who wrote "The author seems like Rousseau to make a crime out of private property without which no society could exist. He doesn't want children to inherit their fathers' fortunes as if inheritance wasn't a natural right and as if the fathers themselves didn't work for the sake of their children" my translation. Others including the relatively enthusiastic reviewer the Baron von Grimm were nonplussed by Pechmeja's dour description of the fate of man and the injustices of oppression maintaining that while virtue must always be exercised little happiness can ultimately be experienced even with the purest intentions my paraphrase of Michaud and Grimm. Grimm rejects comparisons made to Fénelon's novel Les Aventures de Télemaque 1699 saying that if Marmontel's Les Incas 1747 is the Télemaque for the age of the encyclopedia then Télephe is the Télemaque for economists. Within three weeks of publication sales had dropped dramatically and while the book was reprinted once in the 1790s and subsequently translated into English and German Télephe never re-experienced its initial popularity. ESTC T132203.<br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> Baron von Grimm and Denis Diderot's Correspondance Littéraire Philosophique et Economique Vol. XII mars 1794 pp. 80-3. <br /> <br /> Joseph Fr. Michaud Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne Vol. 33 pp. 244-6. . Et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot unknown
1910011887The Alps: private 1910. Hardcover. Fine. An astonishingly well-preserved pressed Alpine floral album assembled from plants collected on a motor journey in the summer of 1910 that starts in Gibraltar then Naples and spends most time in and around St Moritz and Mt Muraigl. The collector is anonymous but we might assume she he was American as a postcard laid-in is addressed to New Hampshire. We can assume the album with the titles FLORA ALPINA: GENEROSO KULM on its cover was purchased at the Hotel Generosa one of several in the region where the flowers were collected which catered to motoring tourists of the period. Oblong approx 13" x 9" cobalt blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration front cover floral patterned endpapers in red and gold 20 leaves pages. A total of 27 specimens each most delicately arranged so as to display optimally stalk leaf and flower each with a daintily handwritten description identifying type of flower or species place and date of collection most August 1910 sometimes with the most charming notations which we have highlighted in bold in the page-by-page listing below . There is virtually no deterioration of specimens each conveying still the texture and weight of each plant. Laid-in is a un-stamped postcard in German of Pontresina from which the album has a specimen which pictures a number of hotels on the mountain slopes addressed to New Hampshire USA. The best preserved floral album we have seen. Page 1. "Pepper Tree Almeda Gardens Gilbraltar"; unidentified perhaps secum "wound round basket with wine carried to the top of Mt. Vesuvius July 2. 1910" Page 2. "Genistas Naples 1910"; "Bluebells St. Moritz 1910" Page 3. "Heather. On drive from Malfi to Cava July 1910"; "Foxglove In stonework of tower Sam Gamignano July 16 1910"; "Pomegranate Forum Rome 1910". Page 4. Unidenified bunch of wildflowers "Mt. Generoso Lake Lugano August 1910". Page 5. "Fragrant Orchis Maloya Pass 1910;" "White Coeloglossum Mt. Muraigle St Moritz August 1910". Page 6. "Alpine Rose Julier Pass near top August 1910"; "Edelweiss Bought from small boy Beyond Julier Pass August 1910" Page 7. "Mountain Cudweed Mt. Muraigle St. Moritz August 1910" 2 specimens Page 8. "Heather St. Moritz August 1910"; Great Burnet Mt Muraigle St Moritz August 1910" Page 9. "Gentiana On lake near top Oberalp Pass driving trip August 1910; 'Gentina aucalis Mt Muraigle St Moritz August 1910"; "Gentian Mt Muraigle St Moritz August 1910" Page 10. "Primula. Mt Muraigle St Moritz" 3 specimens Page 11. "Forget-Me-Nots. Mt Murgail St Moritz August 1910"; "Alpine Trepoil Mt Murgail"; "Alpine Fleabane Mt Murgail" Page 12. "Morteratsch Glacier Ponteresina Augits 1910" 2 specimens Page 13. "Homogyne Aplina Mt Muraigl August 1910" 2 specimens Page 14. "Mountain Aven Mt Muraigl August 1910" 3 specimens Page 15. 3 unidentfied specimens "St Moritz August 1910"; "Mt Muraigl August 1910"; "St Moritz August 1910" Page 16. 2 unidentified specimens "Mt Muraigl August 1910"; "Soldanella in soft snow Mt Muraigl August 1910" Page 17. "Cotton grass St Moritz August 1910"; "Cyclamen Lake Lugano and Lucerne August 1910" Page 18. "Wood pinks Oberalp Pass driving trip August 1910"; "Crocus Oberalp Pass" Page 19. unidentified "driving trip after we left Thusis August 1910"; "Wood cudweed Glacier du Rhone August 1910" Page 20. unidentified "St Moritz August 1910" ; unidentified 2 specimens Glacier du Rhone grows in rocks August 1910 private hardcover books
19101450561910. AVIATION. Aeroplanes d'Artois. Monoplans Aero-Torpilles Aero-Marins. One large fold-out plate with 6 photographs of planes. Small 4to. 165 x 190 mm bound in publisher's gray printed wrappers with a tipped on photograph in a new blue cloth folding box. Paris: Emile Dubonnet 1910. $1250.00 A promotional brochure for the d'Artois aviation company one of the pioneer manufacturers of aeroplanes. The cover is a photograph of the aviator Emile Dubonnet above the Place de la Concorde in 1910. A rare survival from the dawn of modern aviation. In fine condition. hardcover books
1758317<p>FIRST EDITION. 12mo. bound in full havanan speckled calf smooth back decorated with golden fillets and florins title piece red slices binding of the time XXVI 588 pp. An excellent copy. Original edition of this anonymous charge against the Society of Jesus proposing to expose "the seditious doctrine of the Jesuits that authorizes attacks on the sacred person of kings. The author trumps up a global conspiracy theory in which Jesuits murdered kings and emperors including an organized plot to kill King Henry IV and the execution of Emperor Kangxi of China by missionaries. The text systematically moves from one country to the next reporting on the supposed crimes that Jesuit residents or visitors committed there: seduction fraud homicide theft & libel. Bibliotheca Brasiliense 1316; see Goldsmiths' -Kress 9442.</p> La Haye chez les frères Vaillant hardcover
17883005361Pressure" Paris: Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi 1788. A good copy. Octavo half-title woodcut vignette of a ship setting sail at start of text; neat modern quarter calf. <p><p>First edition scarce: a witty and urbane discussion of everything from the rules of Japanese society to the French Compagnie des Indes. The unknown author's reflections on religion and satirical comments on Europe meant that the work must have been skirting very close to being censored.</p> <p>Presumably published in Paris the imprint is meant to refer to l'Ebahi's stately home the Chateau de Pressure in a salon of which the three main characters the much-travelled Monsieur l'Ebahi "Mister Flabbergasted" the Englishman "Thincker" and the Dutchman "Wurtzheim" are comfortably seated as they swap tales of their marvellous adventures not only in Japan but throughout Asia. The whole story is told with such brio that it could almost pass for actual reportage if it were not for the knowing interjections of the author who says at the outset that the only philosophical lesson worth learning is to admire the teachings of Democritus and be amused by the foibles of mankind.</p> <p>The work does appear quite rare with copies recorded in the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France but with apparently few others.</p> </p> . Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi unknown
181918903Voyage en Italie par le peintre Antoine-Louis Castellan (1772-1838).Edition originale. Paris, chez A. Nepveu, libraire - 1819 - 367 pp, 307 pp, et 365 pp. - 50 planches gravées dont 6 à double page.Reliure plein veau de l'époque. Dos lisse ornés et dorés avec titre et tomaison. Coiffe sup. du T3 accidentée. Dos insolés. Pas de rousseur. Très bon état. Format in-8°(21x13).
182119531Performed in the years 1819-20 in his Majesty's ship Hecla and Griper under the orders of William Edward Parry R.N., F.R.S. and commander of the expedition. With an Appendix, containing the scientific and other Observations.Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.London, Published to the Admiralty, and Board of Longitude 1821. Ex-libris héraldique Anison Che Fiorisce.Édition originale. 4 carte dépliante, 16 planches dont 1 carte et 9 Appendix.Reliure pleine basane marron de l'époque. Dos à nerfs filetés et fleurons dorés, décor à froid et fers dorés en pied. Tranches dorées. Double filet doré encadrant les plats avec fleurons angulaires. Roulette sur les coupes et les contreplats. Gardes de soie bleue moirée. Quelques rousseurs. Bien relié. Très bon état. Format in-4°(28x22).
18605628Japan No Publisher C1860 Première édition / uvre originale. Deux jolies pièces, très proches de la bannière monumentale d'Itaya représentant la procession nocturne*, réalisée en 1860**, et qui en sont probablement des copies de détails. La bannière originale représentait un grand nombre de démons. Ces uvres montrent chacune un détail de cette nuit spectaculaire. Aquarelle et gouache originales sur washi (papier japonais) recouvert de soie, avec une bordure dorée appliquée et un encadrement en washi kozo (papier de mûrier) moucheté de soie. Sur la première peinture, deux oni (?) (démons surnaturels japonais) défilent, portant une longue bannière ou une banderole sur une hampe. Dans la deuxième image, quatre yokai ou démones sont occupées à un rituel de beauté et de toilette. Elles s'affairent à se maquiller, à tenir un miroir et à s'entraider. Le rouge à lèvres rouge, en particulier, laisse entendre qu'il s'agit de démones. Les deux images sont de style humoristique, tout comme Halloween enlève la peur de la veille de la Toussaint. *Le hyakki yagyo (????) est le défilé au cours duquel une centaine de démons, ou yokai, défilent dans les rues à certaines périodes de l'année. Lorsque le défilé passait, ceux qui étaient assez imprudents pour jeter un il par la fenêtre risquaient d'être tués ou enlevés. Chaque peinture est un panneau de soie peint de 16 cm x 17 cm sur un support de 22 cm x 27 cm. ** Le panneau original de 6 mètres de long est actuellement exposé à l'« Art Gallery of New South Wales ». Un autre détail du panneau, dans un style et avec une bordure presque identiques, est conservé au Centre Pompidou, à Paris. Référence : AM 2023-361.
1992mon0000063448Masquerade 1992-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Creased cover. Yellowing pages. Masquerade paperback
