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1540250506002Venice Venezia: Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino 1540. Hardcover. Very Good. I sei primi libri del Eneide di Vergilio tradotti piu illustri & honorate donne.Et tra l'altre la nobilissima & divina madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi cui ancho indirizzato tutto il presente volume<br /> <br /> The first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil translated to the most illustrious and honored ladies. And among others to the most noble and divine Madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi to whom also the present volume is addressed. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Incomplete. Missing Title page Book 1 and first 8 leaves of Book 2. Normally this scarce edition typically sells between $2000-2500 when found complete. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighth-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999 which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid accessed in both Latin and Italian editions contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication according to reviewer Diana Robin Renaissance Quarterly 55.4 2002 p. 1394 Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK<br /> <br /> Post-Incunable edition of the first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil. In Italian. Published in 1540 by Comin da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino in Venice. Each book translated into Italian from Latin by a different individual: A2 Hippolito de Medici A3 Bernardino Borghesi A4 Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini A5 Aldobrando Cerretani and A6 Alessandro Piccolomini. Rebound in modern 1/4-calf over marbled paper and gilt tooled spine bordering lettering and compartment devices. Marbled endpapers. Six parts in one volume. Octavo 6 1/2" x 4 1/8". Foliation in leaves: 15 20; 19 1; 27 1; 25 7. Fifteen vignette woodcuts and separate engraved title pages for Books 3-6. <br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Missing Title page Book 1 leaves and first 8 leaves of Book 2 including its title page. 15/22 woodcuts.<br /> <br /> The exterior is in FINE condition. Fresh supple unfaded leather and unblemished marbled paper. A few areas of light dust. Square spine very firm hinges and joints sharp corners and tight pages. Foxing to text block edges. <br /> <br /> The interior condition - refreshed endpapers and blank flyleaves. Trimmed pages. Light foxing to margins. Heavier foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves of the volume. Signs of handling - a few smudges bent corners and some creasing. No marginalia or underlining. One corner clipped. A few minor spots of worming in the margins. Rear blank flyleaf with period one-line Latin inscription in faded antiquarian ink claiming that the possessor of the book was a heteronymous eunuch! Front pastedown with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." <br /> <br /> In excellent shape for a nearly 500-year-old book - a beautifully bound and scarce post-incunable mostly complete edition of the first 6 books of The Aeneid by Virgil. Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino hardcover
1586250509002Venice Venezia: Appresso Giacomo Cornetti 1586. Hardcover. Good. The works of Vergil namely the Bucolic Georgic & Aeneid again translated into blank verse by various most excellent authors.<br /> <br /> Uncommon copy. Missing the final leaf of the Aneid otherwise complete. <br /> <br /> RECENT PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighty-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. <br /> <br /> HISTORIC PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> Federico Caproni Born in Massone Italy a hamlet of the Trentino municipality of Arco and died in Vizzola Ticino a municipality in the Varese area. Founder together with his younger brother Giovanni Battista of the Caproni Aeronautical Industries. He was a scholar of agricultural sciences. In the 1930s he purchased a large estate near Vizzola Ticino undertaking an intense reclamation project that changed the uncultivated nature of the territory and allowed the construction of a modern agricultural company. His private library consisted of approximately 85000 works divided by subject. Caproni Aeronautical Industries 1908 - 1950 was a pioneering Italian aircraft manufacturer. Caproni was responsible for completing the first aircraft of Italian construction in 1911. During 1927 the Caproni Museum was established in Taliedo by Giovanni Caproni and his wife Timina Caproni. It is the oldest aviation museum in Italy. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK<br /> <br /> Published in 1586 by Appresso Giacomo Cornetti in Venice. Text in Italian and in italic type. The Eclogues Bucolics are translated by Andrea Lori; the Georgics by Bernardino Daniello; each of the twelve books of the Aeneid has a different translator: Alessandro Sansedoni Cardinale Hippolito de' Medici Bernardino Borghesi Lodovico Martelli Thomaso Porcacchi Alessandro Piccolomini Giuseppe Betussi Leonardo Ghini Bernardetto Minerbetti Lodovico Domenichi Bernardino Daniello and Paolo Mini. Bound in 19th century 1/4 mottled calf over mottled paper covered boards. Five compartment spine with smooth gilt bands with a gilt lettered black morocco spine label in compartment two and tooled gilt fleurons in the other compartments. All edges stained red. Octavo 5.5" x 4" foliated 8 28; 67 1; 279 leaves. 25 half-page woodcuts some repeats. Cornetti's rose device on title page within scrolled cartouche encircled with motto "Dabo omnibus gratum odorem"; ornamental initials; head- and tail-pieces.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Missing the final leaf of the Aeneid otherwise textually complete. Renewed endpapers. Multiple leaves numbered incorrectly and a few leaves sans number by the printer as it is with other copies. <br /> <br /> Margins trimmed. Spine is square firm hinges and joints. Offsetting and darkened areas on board paper. Some minor rubbing and a nick along joints. Dusty top edge. Rubbed boards and edges. Corners gently bumped. An old cataloguing sticker at heel of spine. A few pages with professional paper restoration to a corner. Quite a bit of water dampening throughout with staining. Heavily darkened title page. Only a few pages with antiquarian marginalia. Signs of handling- a few pages with margin tears some smudges some creasing and a few bent corners. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Federico Caproni. FFEP affixed with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." Some pencil writing on the front endpapers. Appresso Giacomo Cornetti hardcover
199212838E. J. GOLD'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY AND BEYOND THE UNKNOWN Sirius Science Fiction 1992 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. Of 125 copies this is 1/20 of the deluxe edition with an original SIGNED serigraph by E.J. Gold acting as frontispiece. Illustrated. Collects stories by Fred Pohl Robert Sheckley Damon Knight & Daniel Galouye. Quite scarce. This copy SIGNED by Pohl at his contribution. Rare thus. Sirius Science Fiction 1992 unknown
1708138568London : Printed For J. Beaver And B. Lintot In Fleet Street R. Knaplock In St. Paul's Church-Yard J. Sprint In Little Brittain A. Bell R. Smith And J. Round In Cornhill 1708. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original full blind-tooled aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with the original label retained; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 759 pages; LACKS the frontis. Physical desc. : x 4 759 i. E.775 1 p. ; 2o. Subject: Josephus Flavius. - Peri tou Houdaikou polemou. Jews - History. Judaism. Referenced by: ESTC t090837. London : Printed For J. Beaver And B. Lintot In Fleet Street, R. Knaplock In St. Paul's Church-Yard, J. Sprint In Little Brittai hardcover
165854802no publisher stated Lugduni ie Paris - Jacob L'Aîne Rue Philosophie N°6 Orleans 1658 ie 1793 . 1st edition. Hardback. Diced calf VG. 172iv94pp marbled endpapers gilt dentelles all edges gilt leather a little rubbed & upper hinge cracked but holding Ex Libris Caroli Waldstein with their armorial bookplate neat late 19th century annotation to the first blank pages of the second title a little browned a nice copy. Two political tracts published in France in the early days of the Republic which look back to the English protectorate & the lessons to be learnt. The first is a translation of 'Killing Noe Murder' 1658 a pamphlet which advocates the assassination of Oliver Cromwell. Authorship has been attributed to either Edward Sexby or Silius Titus. Cromwell is considered a tyrant equal to Caligula and Nero - the people must rise up & rid them selves of such a despot and tyrannicide can not be regarded as an act of murder. The second work published in 1797 is based upon the 'The Syracusan Tyrant or the Life of Agathocles' by Richard Perrinchief originally published in 1661 an attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles. Both works probably relating to Thermidor & the the overthrow of revolutionary radical Maximilien Robespierre & a retreat from more radical goals and strategies during a revolution. no publisher stated, Lugduni [ ie Paris ] - Jacob L'Aîne, Rue Philosophie N°6, Orleans hardcover
185942532London: John Henry and James Parker 1859. First edition. 4to. xii 243 1 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over plum cloth sides spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels marbled endpapers early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown another early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf with a further more recent one underneath top edge gilt. 73 plates plus 43 woodcuts in the text. Very good. London: John Henry and James Parker unknown
192762150Hollywood CA: Hollywood Bowl Assoc. 7046 Hollywood Blvd. 1927. 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. decorated title w/ tinted background borders 28 Xavier Cugat illustrated plates throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of caricature conductor by Cugat yapp fore-edges minor wear dustsoiling slight scuffing still VG copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and splendidly illustrated caricature rendering of the stars and performers at the Hollywood Bowl for the 1927 Season. Caricatured among the “Hollywood Bowlsheviks†are Alfred Hertz who inaugurated the first Hollywood Bowl season of music in 1922 Bruno Walter Vladimir Shavitch Cecil B. De Mille Louis B. Mayer Pola Negri Hestelle Heartt Dreyfuss Lloyd Wright Pierre Monteux Douglas Fairbank and Mary Pickford. De Bru 1900-1990 was a child prodigy taken to Cuba where he trained as a classical violinist played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana and after New York was hired as musician and caricaturist in Hollywood at the Bowl. He also put together a tango band in 1927 which performed at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador and later took up a long term residency at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for 15 years and one of the noted performers was Desi Arnaz. His famed caricature “Curtain of Stars†measuring 40 x 60 feet hunt at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Cugat’s brother Francis was a noted illustrator best remembered for his cover art of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Worldcat locates 1 copy Cal. Hist. Soc. Lib.; Paul Spitzzeri Striking a Chord: A Program for Summer Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl 19-23 July 1927 Homtesead Museum July 20 2020. Hollywood Bowl Assoc., 7046 Hollywood Blvd., paperback
1850DEMO014460IPhiladelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1850. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Good. 64 excellent steel-plate engravings with 12 of 13 maps Samoa map apparently never inserted many vignettes and woodcuts. Octavos half brown calf blue marbled boards edges and endpapers; vol. 1 rebacked retaining original back and leather labels scuffing and wear to other spines corners worn. <br/><br/>Wilkes' expedition was the first American scientific exploring expedition by sea voyage. His six ships sailed south around South America along Antarctica causing Wilkes to decide that Antarctica was indeed a separate continent. Other stops were at the Pacific islands of Tahiti the Samoas Australia and New Zealand. Maps of Tahiti & Australia and New South Wales Along the way they charted the coasts of California Washington and Oregon. Howes W414; Palau 375505; Sabin 103994 note; see Cowan p.683; Taylor PACIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY p.13. "Wilkes' spectacular Antarctic and South Sea explorations - Goetzmann ARMY EXPLORATION IN THE . WEST p.61" 64 excellent steel-plate engravings many vignettes and woodcuts. Unlike the 1844 edition the following Sherman editions did not have a 6th volume - the Atlas but have 3 Tables and 11 maps Printed by C. Sherman hardcover
50-0506ca. 1950s. Set of 19 watercolors 43 x 35 cm and 35 drawings 28 x 21.5 cm. Probably the artwork intended for a book. Includes scenes in a wine shop butcher patisserie cafes and along the Seine. ca. 1950s. unknown
97019202London 1811 Longmans. New 3/4 leather over marbled boards folder pages 541-576 complete in itself clean minor bit of foxing contained in a folder. S C A R C E An early resource covers the name extentmountains & rivers of Tibet. Of the Kingdoms into which Tibet is divided: Great Tibet or Butan & Little Tibet. Lassa or Barantola its name extent cities & inhabitants. The religion of Tibet Dalay Lama adored as a God incarnated. Of the Hutuktus or apost- olical Vicars & inferior Lamas. The government of Tibet. An account of the Si-fan or Tu-fan & the country inhabited by them their history and destruciton of their Empire. Very early primary resource on Tibet and its culture. R A R E ! unknown
157033006-178Ingolstatt Alexander Weissenhorn 1570. Title printed in red and black within woodcut-border. 16 232 8 leaves. 8vo. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum 1 of 2 metal claps small old library stamp and owner's ms. entry on title. Ingolstatt Alexander Weissenhorn 1570. Fourth issue of one of the many polemics written by Johann Nas 1534-1590 a Franciscan monk and counter-reformation preacher and controversialist notably at the court of the Archduke Ferdinand in Innsbruck where he followed Petrus Canisius. In 1580 he became Bishop of Brixen. - VD 16 N 102; STC German 643. GERMANY ; RELIGION ; Ingolstatt, Alexander Weissenhorn hardcover
0309F088366Very Good. Very good decorative brown cloth top edge gilt bright gilt lettering elaborate black stamped floral cover and spine. Boston: No reader's marks. Remarkably Tight bright. 40 illustrations/frontispiece all VG; 388 pages plus 8pps publisher's ads. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1876. Salt water; or The sea life and adventures of Neil D'Arcy the midshipman "With Illustrations". Illus. frontis and title page VG tissue guard at least 3 other handsome engraved full page illus. Top textblock some soiling; book slightly cocked. hardcover
720220 pp. 8vo 198 x 125 mm. modern aubergine cloth head of spine a little worn title on upper cover. Paris: Félix & Regnault-Delalande 1822.<br/> <br/> An extremely rare auction catalogue inventorying the collection of an obscure painter active at the turn of the century. A contemporary annotator has written in the surname for this anonymous sale on the title-page corroborating Lugt’s attribution. An 1817 almanac of Paris records a painter with the same surname working at rue de Rohan 6. Viglianis also exhibited a landscape at the 1814 Salon — no. 948 in the exhibition livret.<br/> <br/> 184 lots consisting primarily of prints lots 1-132 by artists such as Bartolozzi Bervic Bloemaert Cochin Le Bas Desnoyers Earlom Green Ingouf Massard Morghen Strange Wille Woollett etc. We then find original engraved plates by a number of contemporary artists. The final section of drawings includes the work of Bruandet S. Gessner H. Robert and “Joseph Pascal Viglianis†presumably the seller. With the list of vacations on the final page.<br/> <br/> A very rare catalogue in fine condition. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim. <br/> <br/> ⧠Lugt 10220. unknown
189471028Washington: United States Geological Survey 1894-1900. First edition of all seven folios. 21 2/4 x 18 1/2 inches each. Folio 3 Placerville. 3 maps. 1894. Folio 5 Sacramento. 2 maps. 1894. Folio 29 Nevada City Special. 9 maps. 1896. Folio 41 Sonora. 4 maps. 14x4" portion of rear wrapper torn off affecting lettering on inside rear wrapper; plates and text fine. 1897. Folio 51 Big Trees. 3 maps & 1 plate reproducing 5 photographs. 1898. Folio 63 Mother Lode District. 8 maps. 1900. Folio 66 Colfax. 3 maps. 1900. All in original printed wrappers and cloth spines. Cursive stamp of Chas. S. Sawyer to each volume. Bit of soiling ad corner wear but altogether a very good collection of this attractive group of atlases. United States Geological Survey hardcover
181198077Catskill NY: Printed by M. Croswell for John Shaw Book-seller and Book-binder 1811. 1811. Fair. RARE MACKAY CROSWELL CATSKILL NEW YORK IMPRINT - Octavo 6-10/16 inches high by 4-2/16 inches wide. Hardcover bound in original marbled paper covered boards backed with a tan calf spine titled "American Revolution" in gilt on the spine. The covers are heavily rubbed and chipped and the front cover is detached. Pages i-xii 1 and pages 14-264. There is evidence of early worming to the top front corner of the first 2 leaves. There is some scattered foxing and staining throughout with occasional pencil annotations. An internally good copy of this rare imprint. <p>RARE CATSKILL NEW YORK IMPRINT.<p>Although for many years attributed to the Reverend William Cooper see Howes C-761 modern scholarship has identified the author as being Richard Johnson 1733 or 1734-1793 He wrote the text for Elizabeth Newbery who published the first edition in 1789. M.J.P. Weedon "Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery" The Library 1949 pp. 25-63. Richard Johnson also wrote an adaptation for children of several stories of the "Thousand and one nights" under the pseudonym Reverend J. Cooper. It appeared under the title "The Oriental moralist or the beauties of the Arabian nights entertainments" accompanied with suitable reflections adapted to each story in 1790.<p>Mackay Croswell 1765-1847 was an important early printer in the Hudson Valley who started the first Catskill New York newspaper "The Catskill Packet" in 1792. Together with his brother Thomas he opened a book and print shop in Catskill in 1790. Mackay was soon joined in the the business of journalism by his brother Harry Croswell. In 1800 the paper was renamed "The Western Constellation" in 1800 and was co-edited by Mackay and Harry. For a brief period the brothers mentored a well-known future journalist Thurlow Weed who worked in their print shop. Catskill, [NY]: Printed by M. Croswell, for John Shaw, Book-seller, and Book-binder, 1811. hardcover
182717725<p>London: Henry Colburn 1827 Third edition enlarged of this gardening guidebook that was among the first of its kind written for women by a woman. The second and third editions are significantly expanded from the first edition 1816 which is about half as many pages and contains only two plates. Publisher's rose-colored boards. . Twelvemo. . With six hand-colored aquatint plates including large folding frontispiece 11 x 7 ". Expertly rebacked with printed paper spine label. Wear to corners. A very good unusually bright and wide copy. Maria Elizabetha Jacson 1755 – 1829 was a botanical writer and the daughter of a clergyman who owned land in Derbyshire and Cheshire. Her family had connections to Enlightenment culture in the midlands through Erasmus Darwin and her cousin Sir Brooke Boothby. She also knew Maria Edgeworth who described Jacson as a "gay garden lady" and was undoubtedly an influence on Jacson's work. Jackson took an interest in botany from a young age but did not publish her first book the children's educational volume Botanical Dialogues 1797 until she was in her forties. She later published Botanical Lectures 1804 and Sketches of the Physiology of Vegetable Life 1811 for an adult audience the former book being an introduction to the translation of Linnaeus's System of Vegetables 1783 by Erasmus Darwin. The Florist's Manual was her most popular and influential work.</p> Henry Colburn, hardcover
185183020London: John Van Voorst 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23 x 14.5 cm. Slim octavo. viii 74pp 2 ads. Small stamp on page vii. Complete with 6 lithographs of flies by Paul Jerrard of which 5 are vibrantly hand colored and one that is not in color of other tackle. Bound in original brown cloth. Spine is faded and head and tail of spine are chipped. ~ 8 cm closed tear to front free endpaper. With sections on salmon white trout trout pike grayling sea fly-fishing and lengthy appendix including a section on angling in America. Authorship is unattributed internally but various sources give either Mrs. Hutchinson or Richard Bowden-Smith as the author. Uncommon work. References: Heckscher 1075. Westwood & Satchell p 95. John Van Voorst hardcover
18522473San Francisco: October 4 1852. Very good. 2pp. with integral address leaf. Old folds mild staining and soiling three-inch closed tear to address leaf. An interesting letter documenting the family side of the California Gold Rush in which a San Francisco man writes to his brother offering to send his wife and daughters to Placerville as helpers. Interestingly at first Phillips addresses the letter to his brother in Ohio then scratches it out and writes in "Cal;" this most likely indicates the Phillipses hailed from Ohio and trekked to California along with scores of others in hopes of untold riches in the California gold fields. In his letter Phillips writes that his wife who has long been in San Francisco looking after a sick friend can now leave as he is better "And if you think best she will come up with the little girls and fix your carpets and superintend your affairs for a month or two untill your wife comes." The formerly sick friend Mr. Gardner could also accompany them apparently as "He is coming up to P. and he wants you to give him work for a short time. Mr. G. is a good sailsman sic having been in the dry goods business." While not overtly concerned with gold mining the correspondence is nevertheless interesting for providing details on family routines during the Gold Rush era when numerous families uprooted their lives and moved not only to places like San Francisco and Placerville but between such locations during the years of speculation. A nice example of history from below particularly notable for its domestic implications during the time of the great California Gold Rush. October 4 unknown
18555504Live Oak City Ca: January 27 1855. Still very good. 4pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded with manuscript docketing on lower half of second leaf verso. Minor wear along old folds with a couple of short separations. Minor soiling and dampstaining somewhat heavier to addressed area. A detailed mid-1850s California Gold Rush letter from Elias Hunt Jr. to his brother in the tiny of Poolville New York southeast of Hamilton. Hunt was camped in Live Oak north of Yuba City when he wrote this letter home on January 27th 1855. He tells his brother that he has good claims but that a lack of rain has not allowed him to work them:<br /> <br /> "It is hard for a man to get along. I am stopping here in hopes there will be some rain soon so that I can work my claims. I have some very good ones 2 only 200 feet square each. I could make some money if I had water. I have been offered $500 dollars for them but I refused it -- I think I can make an ounce per day; I know that I can make ten dollars for I have done that before."<br /> <br /> There is talk of irrigating the area but Hunt is not sure that it will be finished before he wants to return east:<br /> <br /> "There is a ditch coming in here to suply sic the place with water but it will not be completed until Spring some time in April & I should like to come home in June. I shall stay until there is water in the ditch then I can wash a part of my claims & sell the rest to a good advantage for they are situated immediately on the line of the ditch."<br /> <br /> Continuing upon his plans to return he writes:<br /> <br /> "I have had a very good offer to come home across the plains by a man in Sacramento. He is from Utica; his name is Hamilton. He is going to cross with four hundred Spanish horses or mares. He has offered me good money to come with him as I have been over to Carson Valley this last season. It will take some sixty days to do it if I should get through with my claims by the time time that he gets ready to start. I think I shall come with him if the Indians are not to hosstille sic. They were very bad this last season; they got possession of one of Uncle Sam's forts."<br /> <br /> Hunt continues writing about local hunting prospects and family in New York before delivering a Crockett-esque farewell -- "Please give my respects to all may inquire for me & let the rest go to Hell for all that I care." A good letter from one of the less trafficked areas of the California Gold Rush. January 27 unknown
44028501Edo n.d. ca 1830-40's. A group of 12 color woodblock print sheets: ca. 12.3 x 9 cm.;prints: ca.11.9 x 8.4 cm.all clean showing age excellent impression & registry no marks very nice examples in old album. AN OBSCURE SHUNGA ALBUM . . . EROTIC PRINTS FROM TWO SERIES MOST LIKELY THE ART WORK . . . OF EITHER KUNISADA I OR TOYOKUNI II . . . UNSIGNED AS USUAL . The book consists of pages from two series of Shunga erotic books:. As usual no Shunga erotica or Harubon erotic books were ever signed by the author as these were banned by the Shogunate. Nevertheless there was a proliferation of these 'contraband' books & prints printed through the Edo period 1604-1868 that were commonly distributed throughout Japan. . Three prints from JUNI KA GETSU NO UCHI TWELVE MONTHS OF THE YEAR and YON SHIKI NO UCHI THE FOUR SEASONS. The second to last print has no title. All of the above are clearly Edo period color prints. The second to the last print has no title but is clearly an Edo period item. The very last color print is a Meiji period work ca. 1870's. . We believe the two series originally consisted of 12 prints in all showing the erotic scenes of each of the twelve months. The same for the Four Seasons showing three prints for each of the four seasons. . Each print is clean more than likely from an accordion folded album or a usual printed book. All but 2 have the series title cartouche and a title cartouche indicating the season or month. The last two have no titles. . Each print is gently mounted to the book using typical Ace corners in white from the 1940-1950's period. . THE ARTISTS: Being unsigned by stylistic analysis and research we believe this book to be the artistic work of the two artistes cited below. . The book consist of the works of two famous woodblock print artists: of the period KUNISADA I & TOYOKUNI II. Because Kunisada I 1786-1864 was the star pupil of Toyokuni II since age 15 his works naturally are very similar to his master's style. In 1844 he took the name Toyokuni III therefore Kunisada I is the same person. He specialized in story books & portraits. He is well collected by world libraries & museums. See Roberts below. . Toyokuni II 1777-1835 may be the artist of one of the series. He also was a star pupil of Toyokuni I. He was a Ukiyo-e painter illustrator Bijin Ga pictures of B-beauties He is well collected by world libraries & museums. See Roberts below. . The last print clearly a Meiji 1968-1912 period work was again unsigned and unattributed. . EX-LIBRIS THOMAS K. TINDALE. Tindale was a famous author of the comprehensive book THE HANDMADE PAPERS OF JAPAN concerning Japanese Washi papers. The first fly leaf of this book has his embossed "Mon" or Japanese crest blind-stamped. See our book #360633 on our website. . This was among his collection which we acquired in the 1970's now being offered for the first time. . CONDITION: The book is in excellent condition it is an accordion folding album with brown silk cloth covers containing stiff Washi paper. . The front covers have a bit of old either worming or silverfish evidence of nibbled cloth in two places. It is minor and has been colored the same as the cloth so it is not a major issue with no damage to the interior pages. There is a small amount of loss to the cloth and the cover title slip is also a bit nibbled on the right edge again of no impact to the book or the prints. . The prints are clean polychrome woodblock printed in several colors with excellent impression & registry. Lovely miniature treasures. Each print is gently inserted in American "NewAce" white paper mounting corners. The prints can be easily removed from these corners. . There is one single print mounted to the right hand side of the book. The versos of the prints are clean the rectos fronts are also clean no damage marks or issues. The colors are vivid the red made from iron has nicely oxidized into a mellow brown-rust color indicating at least 100 years old. It takes 100 or more years for this color transition to happen this is a good sign of genuine Edo period examples. . Each print has excellent impression & registry indicating an early printing off the woodblocks printed in a high quality from expert printers/publishers again lacking any identifying seal as usual. . The last print Meiji period has been re-backed folded twice and old tear mended. . Please review the color photos posted to our website for more details. . THE ARTIST & BANNED BOOKS: . During the Edo period the Shogun banned books that were not inspected and or sanctioned. Erotic books were again contraband and never showed the true name of the artist nor publisher printers seals or logos. Therefore these Shunga Harubon are difficult to attribute any artist. The only way is an "educated guestimate" based on the artist's painting style. At best it is a close of an attribution as possible. Few are listed in Shibui or other bibliographies containing Harubon. . It our best estimate that these two books were the work of either Kunisada I and or Toyokuni II based on our over 55 years of tenure and experience. . Color photos are posted to our website. . REFERENCE: . ROBERTTS Laurence P.: A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS: PAINTING SCULPTURE CERAMICS PRINTS LACQUER. For Kunisada see pp. 96-97. For Toyokuni II see pp. 186-187. SHIBUI Kiyoshi: ESTAMPS EROTIQUES PRIMITIVES DU JAPON: GENROKU KOHANAGA SHU-E. . --. UKIYO-E NAISI. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAPANESE EROTIC ILLUSTRATED WOODBLOCK PRINTED BOOKS. HAYASHI Yoshikazu: ENBON KENKYU: RESEARCH ON EROTIC JAPANESE WOODCUT BOOKS. ILLING Richard: JAPANESE EROTIC ART: And The Life Of The Courtesan. UHLENBECK Chris. ed. et al.: JAPANESE EROTIC FANTASIES: Sexual Imagery Of The Edo Period. WINZINGER Franz: MEISTERWERKE DER EROTISCHEN KUNST JAPANS. LANE Richard: EROTIC THEME IN JAPANESE PAINTING: THE EARLY SHUNGA SCROLL. UKIYOE SHUNGA MEI HIN SHU SEI.THE COMPLETE UKIYO-E SHUNGA: The Foreign Image. An Anthology Of Writings. GROSBOIS Charles: SHUNGA IMAGES OF SPRING: Essay On Erotic Elements In Japanese Art. MANDEL Gabriele: SHUNGA: Erotic Figures In Japanese Art. EVANS Tom. et al.: SHUNGA: The Art of Love in Japan. UTAMARO Utagawa. Kitagawa: THE MERRY DRINKERS A Translation Of The EHON WARAI JOGO: A PICTURE BOOK SERIES OF SHUNGA EROTICA. . NOTE: Many of the above reference books are in our inventory please see visit our website for details search by author or title. . . unknown
a891651684 first edition. no place or publisher given. square 12mo . later plain wraps. "Nopende het belaagen der Vryheyt. Mitsgaders een verhaal van de swackheyt der Spaanse Mogentheyt Philips de Tweede. Triangle floral vignette on title page. Name "Boccalin" printed at end of text. 8p. Good no wear some light toning throughout. . paperback
1987018589New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President on the front free endpaper in December 1987: "To ---------/with Friendship/Respect and Lasting/Appreciation for helping/me 'Look Forward'/George Bush." Advance Review Copy with a letter from the publisher laid in. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
172546352Stivagii: Joannis Martini Heller Typographi & Bibliopolae 1725. Very Good. Stivagii: Joannis Martini Heller Typographi & Bibliopolae 1725. First Edition. Folio; contemporary calf over paper-covered boards with leather title label to spine; edges sprayed red; 566 8pp. index collated and complete. Contemporary library label to spine; boards lightly worn with general scuffing; cracked along top of front hinge but boards secure and binding sound; interior unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce title. The second volume would be published in 1731 and neither currently available in retail. Joannis Martini Heller, Typographi & Bibliopolae unknown
160927318Frankfurt Hanover & Hanover: Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; Parts 2 & 3 Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes Joan. Aubrii 1609. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Three parts in one volume. Vellum. Some soiling and browning of vellum and text ties lacking else a very good copy with bookplate of Alfred Jerome Brown. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. This work was ultimately completed in seven parts. <br /> 'The Polish-German physician was the personal physician to both Emperor Ferdinand and Maximilian II in Austria. He wrote several medical works and was a follower of the Galenic school of medicine. He was one of the first to study the contagiousness of certain diseases. "Sixteenth Century Books in the National Library of Medicine" 1077 for the 1591-94 edition; Osler 2387 & 2388 earlier editions Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; [Parts 2 & 3] Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes unknown
1848DEMO015918IGand / Ghent: Chez Ve Vander Schelden 1848. First Belgian edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo 589 pages contemporary full green sheep extra gilt aeg scuffed. Inked presentation in 1912 from Rev. Francis J. Harbe: Harbe died in 1913 at age 37 in San Antonio Texas. He may have acquired this when a seminarian at Belgium in 1900. <br/><br/>Howes D286; Graff 3826; Field 1425; Sabin 82266; Smith 9549; Strathern 511:iii. "This edition seems to have been prepared by the author himself. It contains more material than the edition in English "Oregon Missions" the illustrations are different and the three maps are entirely new - Sabin 82265." It has several additional letters and an Appendix pp. 360 - 378. "Origine des Americains." Contains Fr. De Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River Plateau . he continued . to the Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville -- Wagner-Cam-Becker 141.2." Contains 16 plates including the pictorial title-age and 3 folding maps. Chez Ve Vander Schelden hardcover
